Saturday, December 29, 2012

Circling






For many months (and maybe even for a few years), I had tried to figure this out from a picture from a book of the unfolded sheet, decorated. I thought I had figured it out, once I folded it back together with the design intact. But I had it wrong! It's a strange route, going from seeing Korean sewing kits in Jeonju to Chinese ones in Brooklyn to cutting and folding and copying from a book that doesn't lay flat when open to hastily browsing booths in Silver Spring and finding a sample by a New Hampshirite who learned from a brilliant German who figured it out from the Chinese sewing kit.

Now I can finally put away the tiny square I had originally folded and left out with my supplies (and even took with me to Santa Fe to try and do it over), because I can make it! Tiny victories.

3 comments:

ronnie said...

Ok - I admit it - I've spent the last 30mins folding a square of paper and trying to figure out how to make it go into that ^^^^ to no avail! BUT from that frustrating exercise I've actually found a way forward for a rather different piece of work (bonus!) --- not that it looks ANYTHING like a secret chinese/korean/origami/sewing kit whatsit! (ps - I'm still trying to figure out how that whatsit works!)

Velma Bolyard said...

aimee, i love mine...and i love how you drew wonderful patterns which totally play with the concept. i love your tenacity and now you KNOW it. yay! now i suppose i should get out the exemplar and learn it myself!

onesmallstitch said...

marvelous, I've been folding and unfolding the note you sent me, trying to figure it out. your pattern makes it all the more intriguing