{"id":18420,"date":"2018-01-23T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:09:00","slug":"attempting-advanced-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/attempting-advanced-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"attempting advanced origami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year didn’t leave me with much time for ‘fun’ crafts, so I’m trying to pick that up again this year, and make time to make things just for the fun of it!<\/p>\n

I received a pack of origami papers for Christmas, so I thought I’d try to learn more origami skills by picking a far more challenging pattern than I’ve attempted before. I chose to try a Cape Dwarf Chameleon (now I won’t be able to see real chameleons in my garden any more!) using a pattern by Quentin Trollip that’s rated as 4 out of 6 (advanced intermediate) on the origami difficulty scale. <\/p>\n

Advanced intermediate is far beyond how I’d rate my origami skills, but there’s only one way to improve, and that’s to try something that’s out of your comfort zone! Although I’ve made lots of origami before, I usually stick to basic models with folds that you can understand with only wordless diagrams, so I was really jumping in at the deep end here. <\/p>\n

At almost every step, I had to stop and google what each fold and instruction meant. Swivel fold? Inside reverse fold? Rabbit ear?! All new to me. <\/p>\n

I found it difficult to understand all the new folds and spent ages staring at diagrams to try to see how one step could possibly lead to the next. But, finally, I figured out all the folds and, after a few hours, I had a finished model. It’s far from perfect, but if you squint you can just about recognise it as a chameleon!<\/p>\n

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For comparison, here’s the perfect original from Quentin Origami:<\/p>\n

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