Lay your template over your paper and rotate and play with it until you get your motif near one corner, and with no part of it inside either the central penalty box, or the border. Draw a border around the outside of the square about. Using a ruler or dividers, find its center, and then mark a square box around the central. The length of the side is hereby declared 'x'. –º Marked Template: Using a translucent substance (plastic sheeting, tracing paper, etc), cut out a perfect square the right size. I suggest starting with #1 for practice before moving on to #2. The first expects you to know exactly the size of square you want to do your fold with, and the second expects that you have a desired motif/picture on the paper, and you want to make sure you get as much of it as you can right where you want it to go, with a maximally-sized crane.īoth can be done by eyeball when you've got experience with the method, but there are proportions you can go by until you get 'the feel'. #31 ::: Elliott Mason ::: (view all by) ::: February 28, 2011, 12:33 AM:ĭiatryma Well, as long as it's of general interest. Âœ“ A reproduced woodcut out of Scientific American to wish him useful technological advances pages from a Penzey's Spices catalog's recipe section to wish him copious, tasty, and nutritious food, etc. Sometimes, even in spoken English, which awes some people. ˜… Why, yes, I really am that parenthetical in real life (especially when I've been reading a lot of Conan Doyle, Gail Carriger, or the like). Oh, and my count stands at 23, despite my toddler daughter's repeated efforts at helping.
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If anyone's curious, I know how to make sure certain parts of your paper end up out on the flat part of the wings where they're visible. #27 ::: Elliott Mason ::: (view all by) ::: February 27, 2011, 11:14 PM:Ĭrane-folding subthread: Clearly influenced by my long-standing tendency to take fairly simple things and complexificate them beyond all recognition (though, at least in this case, not beyond sanity - for which much thanks!★), my cranes are being folded not only from pieces of paper I find useful for well-wishing will-work✓, but I am, in quilting terminology, fussy-cutting them.