#kusudama

[kaiyippee99]

I MADE KUSUDAMA EARRINGS!!

Kusudamas are a kind of origami, decorative modular balls, idk how else to describe it—(i have my collection made by me on my profile, the top image!) but uhhh yeah i worked on this yesterday and finished it just now!

[tanuki-kimono]

Dazzling antique furisode (probably a bridal one, or kakeshita), with busy and colorful goshodoki (all season flowers and ancient Heian court items). The hina-ningyo (dolls) are so cute!

[origami-fleur]

Classy

Yet another hydrangea kusudama made by following the instructions on this post.

[wisteriapath]

New Kusudama Complete: Sakura III

I don't think I've shared my crafts here except when they're in the background of tea photos.

[starryspngs]

Pink origami balls Source: X / X / X / X

[bluepallilworld]

posting it here because I want to add the pics to my fic on ao3

so say hi to those lil' sketches of my pink!Reaper, Kusudama

Reapertale belong to @/renrink Kusudama is my guy

[semi-imaginary-place]

dug out my unfinished projects/patterns box and found this pattern. I didn't like that it had an irregular fold at the end that quadruples the thickness so I modified the pattern so the tucked edge wasn't folded over (original left and center, modification right). The result is more of the brown/pattern side and less white. You can see a full 3,5 symmetry 30 piece kusudama below left.

A pentagon forms a flat plane but I experimented a bit and with a prefold you can make a 4 piece unit that tents which might create a more spherical piece but I'm tired of folding these so I'll figure it out another time (someone else please try and show me the results. I also made the spikey 30 piece kusudama on the right. this was totally the wrong paper. I used a thicker paper and it was a terrible choice, it's too fragile and there's tons of little tears along the seams and fold lines.

Here's some protopytes from the project box I made out of my middleschool/highschool printouts.

[anormaladn]

Here goes my first 90 unit kusudama! Maybe. I have 6 modules left, so either it's somehow a 84 unit kusudama or I did too many. *shrugs*

instructions

except I separated the swirly bits with a toothpick, and used a 90 unit model, where a 5-triangle circle is surrounded by 6-triangle circles.