1,000 Cranes: Step 1

Cutting, this took me 4 days to complete. Cutting proper sized origami sheets into quarters as I am used to making cranes smaller than 1cm so these are gonna be a bit larger. The sheets are 6x6cm and hopefully will be completed by chinese new year when they will be given to my partner's parents as a new years gift. In china 1,000 cranes has a long standing folk lore that making 1,000 paper cranes enables the folder or the receiver to have a wish come true. My partner thinks its too much work but I think its the least I can do to show my appreciation on what they have done for me since arriving here.

This is what 1,000 little squares look like.

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Triple Dodecahedron

My first attempt at Module Origami in ten years was the Triple Dodecahedron. This is a 12 Sided ball, 3 balls in total and each with 30 modules. This is classed as Intermediate Grade.

Smallest Dodecahedron (30 modules)

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Double Dodecahedron (60 modules)

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The Completed Triple Dodecahedron (90 modules)

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This took me 2 days of spare time to complete (approx 4 hours) The first (the largest) was the hardest to complete. But once i figured out what to do the next two were far easier. Im going to try later to apply this to my microgami techniques and see how small i can make the ball. My goal is smaller than 3 cm