British Origami Society Spring Convention 2014

 

British Origami Society 

Spring Convention 2014

 



After years of being out of the loop with the BOS conventions due to working weekends, I'm finally back and it was great seeing all my lovely origami friends and making new friends :)

 

 

I was very rusty at teaching Tavin's Turtle, though everyone enjoyed the class :)  I specially designed some paper with different designs and I'll upload the PDF file later.










I got to do quite a few classes. My first class, I made some waterbomb earrings with my friend Erica Thomson which I'll be giving away as 1st prize in my blog prize.


 
 








I folded Mark Kennedy's star in Kathy's class. Kathy made some lovely brooches for everyone and I asked for one to give away as 2nd prize on this blog. The brooch is made from this lovely paper that looks like metal. it's about 1.5 inch in size.

** If you would like to win the earrings (1st prize) or the brooch (2nd prize) just add a comment, facebook or tweet me **

Competition ends 31st May 2014

 
I taught my class just after lunch and then I got to go to Assia Brill's Curlicue presentation and class.  I love the simplicity of the design nd how many designs and shapes you can make.

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My last class at the convention was the paper making classs with Jonathan Korejko.  I made 3 sheets of A5 paper, my little boy also joined in and made some paper too. The green paper has feathers and bits in it, the purple paper has origami words and the white paper has threads.

You can find more information on Jonathan's classes here
http://www.specialistworkshops.co.uk/jonathan_korejko.php

I won a lovely ceramic crane in the silent auction 

The next British Origami Convention with be in Bradford on 5th to 7th September 2014, hope to see you there.


Finally, here are some photos I took of the exhibition area and please visit the British Origami website to see more photos.


Assia's Curlicue

Love this Rose Ball

Butterflies made from various wrappers and labels

 


















Toilet Paper Origami

 














Erica's Jewellery  - you can buy online

Origami Rose Ball with Tutorial

Made with lots of pieces, 62 in total ! More of Judith's origami can be found here

To make the Rose Ball start with these size papers

Electra Modules 5cm sq x 30 units

Kawasaki Roses - 10cm sq x 12 units 

Traditional Lilies (leaves) - 6cm sq x 20 units

Starting with the Electra

Diagram Elactra - AC , a photo by Roger N.origami on Flickr.

Diagrams for Rose and Lilies 

Roses  

                                           origami rose - binzinger, a photo by evi binzinger on Flickr.

http://xinjingrushui.com/node/2521          

http://www.bloom4ever.com/kawasaki-rose-budding.php

Lilies -  

http://en.origami-club.com/flowers/iris/index.html

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-lily.html

Origami Gift Box & Bows

Sorry I've not blogged in ages been busy, I found two lovely websites  http://www.goorigami.com  and http://www.paperkawaii.com

I was tidying my office and found some "wooden" paper and decided to make the Box in a Box with matching gift bows.

Origami Gift Box Tutorial can be found here - goorigami.com/single-sheet-origami/boxinabox-origami-box-...

Bow Tutorial can be found here - www.paperkawaii.com/2011/02/08/origami-ribbon-bow-tutorial/

The lovely people at Folded Square sent me some paper to teach the bow at the ICHF Hobby Craft show at the NEC.

3 Origami Daffodils

I love this fold and it a great spring flower

Happy New Year 2008

Here's the latest fold to start the beginning of a new year.
I know upload all my new images to

Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree


Here's a Christmas card I made for everyone and I just emailed them the link to flickr so that they could see as want to help the environment and send a digital card.