Introductions

[Leeuummmm]

I've only been folding about 3-4 months tops Harpseal aha

[Harpseal]

Oh..... Yay! I suppose there are however many thousands of people on this forum, so i can't really say that. Oh well.

[mizanete]

Hi everyone! I'm glad to see so many other new users here! When I first opened the thread I thought this was an inactive forum. Phew! )

Anyway, I've been doing origami since I was a little girl, but I've only started really challenging myself recently. I hope we can all be friends!

[Leeuummmm]

I'm sure we can
Welcome and get stuck in! What sort of things do you fold?

[Harpseal]

Mizanete, most of this forum is newbies (70% or something have never made more than two posts). Robert Lang has an account here and he is a 'newbie'
@ leeeeeeuuuuuuum, is that question open? I often vary between loving geometrical folds such as hexahedra and cubes and making shapes of well known characters such as iron man and a large collection of pokemon to going on to shapes of mythical creatures and animals. Rotating over those normally take a month to two on each before i become "re-fascinated".

[Leeuummmm]

It can be an open question aha
Sounds good!
I do a similar thing when you say about getting re-fascinated but I go between modular, complex models and tessellations (which is what I'm on at the moment )

[Harpseal]

Tesselations are cool. Recently i made a tesselation called 'the stretch wall'. It is suprisingly easy to make and it stretches! Pull it in one direction and it'll expand in both up and down!

[Leeuummmm]

Sounds interesting! Got any photos/videos?

[Harpseal]

It's in the book origami- all you need to know which i borrowed from my local library and took back yesterday. Sorry!

[ToaEmploeon]

Hi, My name is Matt and I've been doing origami for 4 years now, pretty inconsistently. I live in Canada and originally learned when I was on an exchange program, where I just learned a few designs from youtube.

I then moved on and have done nearly everything on FoldSomething, because at the time i didn't know how to read diagrams. I only have one book "World's Best Origami" by Nick Robinson and that really upped my game. I've done lots of modular stuff including a 500 piece Golden Venture Swan and a 270 piece bucky ball.

I found this forum a while ago but never really knew where to bite in because there was just so much. What I really want to do is learn how to do folds just from the crease patterns because that seems to be what people put up because of the effort involved in making proper directions and I was actually hoping that I could get directed to somewhere where I could learn that.

I really want to contribute to what looks like such an amazing community!

[Harpseal]

This is a pretty amazing community Matt! You might find out about crease patterns a bit more, especially where to find good pointers for beginners in them, in the diagrams and crease patterns forum, the 'crease pattern FAQ' topic. Also, the dead topic, (probably at the bottom of the first page or the top of the 2nd) first 5 crease patterns may help you get started.

[tara]

Hi, everyone,

I'm Tara, and I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I first folded as a kid when we were taught to make the traditional crane in about the fourth grade. I loved making cranes, and I also folded most of the models in a little book called Educational Origami: Japanese Paper Folding - Activity Instruction Book. It didn't occur to me that I could get more books from the library, so eventually I stopped folding, except for cranes.

Fast-forward to the beginning of August this year. It was my and my partner's 12th anniversary, and I wanted to do something special. In a stroke of genius, it occurred to me to fold a dozen origami roses, put them on stems, and display them in a vase. I folded the A-type Omuta Rose from origami-club.com, and my gift was a hit.

I enjoyed the process and the result so much that I borrowed a bunch of books from the library, stocked up on paper, and decided to fold at least one model a day to build my skills.

Right now, my favourite models to fold are containers and boxes, some geometric models, smaller modulars, the occasional animal/bird/etc., and models that make me say "Wow!" such as the concentric-squares hyperbolic parabola, the traditional tower model (see Nick Robinson's World's Best Origami), and John Montroll's stellated octahedron.

My current project is a mobile of nine Kyoko's Swallows from Sok Song's book Crease + Fold, which has quite a few models I really like.

I'm going to do my best not to just lurk here, and I'm excited to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge the people in this forum have!

[Alejandro77]

Hello everyone! My name is Alejandro and I'm of Hispanic descent living in the US. I've been folding for a long time but mostly simple pieces and some modular origami. I have recently begun to try out more complicated models. I look forward to posting, learning, and seeing what everyone else makes!

[chesscuber98]

Welcome !
I am sure you will love the forum!

[ToaEmploeon]

This is a pretty amazing community Matt! You might find out about crease patterns a bit more, especially where to find good pointers for beginners in them, in the diagrams and crease patterns forum, the 'crease pattern FAQ' topic. Also, the dead topic, (probably at the bottom of the first page or the top of the 2nd) first 5 crease patterns may help you get started.

AWESOME! Thanks for the help!