{"id":186,"date":"2007-12-15T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/origami-star-ornament\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T20:47:07","slug":"origami-star-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/origami-star-ornament\/","title":{"rendered":"origami star ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jess of <a href=\"https:\/\/howaboutorange.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How About Orange<\/a> posted an inspirational round-up of <a href=\"https:\/\/howaboutorange.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/paper-3-d-holiday-ornament-tutorials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D paper holiday ornaments<\/a>. I have a nice stock of pretty origami papers that I never get around to using, so this seemed like a sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I decided to try the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/292936\/3d_paper_star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many pointed star<\/a> &#8211; the tutorial is in the form of a video (really useful because you can pause and rewind to re-watch the tricky parts). Wouldn&#8217;t this star look great hanging on a Christmas tree?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/3d_star.jpg\" alt=\"3d origami star\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technically, this is an example of <em>modular origami<\/em>, because one star is made from six sheets of paper, although there is no cutting or gluing involved. I used six 3&#8243; squares of origami paper and the finished star is about 2.5&#8243; at it&#8217;s widest points. <\/p>\n<p>I got stuck at one point in the folding sequence, but I watched that part of the video a few more times and once I&#8217;d figured it out, it was all plain sailing from there. Assembling the star was quite easy too. It&#8217;s quite time-consuming to make, but watch a DVD at the same time and the time will fly by!<\/p>\n<p><em>PS &#8211; Apologies to any mailing list subscribers who just got this post e-mailed to them! Slight technical glitch&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess of How About Orange posted an inspirational round-up of 3D paper holiday ornaments. I have a nice stock of pretty origami papers that I never get around to using, so this seemed like a sign&#8230; I decided to try the many pointed star &#8211; the tutorial is in the form of a video (really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}