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Never fold a kangaroo
I wrapped the presents [1] for Lorie's baby shower and I wanted to do
something … different for the bow.
I have an interest in origami, and one of the books I have gives the
instructions for folding a kangaroo and baby and I thought that would be a
nice bow; something that is different. [2] [3]
So I grab the book and some origami paper. Quickly glancing through the book
it looks easy enough.
Until you actually do it.
> Since this is the third work in the series to be made from it, instructions
> for folding the bird base are not given.
>
Instruction between steps one and two of kangaroo and baby (nice).
I've found that the instructions for origami tend to follow the Unix man page
model: it makes sense once you know how to do it. But if you don't know how
it works then getting from (say) step 23 to 24 may take some time.
[4] [5] Step 23 is making one of the last folds for the head of the
kangaroo. Okay, I see a valley fold here, a mountain fold there but how does
that get from the illustration in step 23 to the illustration in step 24?
That one step alone took me more than an hour to get.
[6] [7]My first attempt ended up looking more like an aroused male mutant
kangaroo than a female kangaroo with a baby. [8] [9]
It only took me four hours to make the bow.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/04/16.1
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/t_kangaroo1.jpg
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/kangaroo1.jpg
[4]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/t_kangaroo2.jpg
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/kangaroo2.jpg
[6]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/t_mutant1.jpg
[7]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/mutant1.jpg
[8]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/t_mutant2.jpg
[9]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2000/04/16/mutant2.jpg
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