Origami Hearts for Valentine's Day

februarie 14, 2021

Origami Hearts for Valentine's Day

When you folded so many origami hearts for Valentine's Day, what should you fold next? More origami hearts, of course. This time, I have chosen two kusudama models designed by Mio Tsugawa: Bloom and Wa.

Kusudama Bloom can be made both from paper squares and paper circles. It is an easy model, with 24 modules. It requires glue and a lot of patience to wait for the glue to dry in order to assembly it. You can find the tutorial on my blog for the version made from squares. I prefer the version made from paper circles as you can see here. I found a cute muffin paper with red hearts pattern.

Kusudama Wa is another design of Mio Tsugawa, from the ribbon kusudama family. It is made from 30 strips of paper (ratio 1:4). The assembly is again with glue. I only folded it once, a long time ago, in the purple version. I like how the paper curls in small origami hearts for each module. I have a picture with the diagram for it, it is a low-resolution picture and the instructions are in Japanese. After I folded the model and I compared it with the purple version, I saw a couple of differences: the obvious one is because of the colors used. The origami paper without patterns puts more accent on the heart-shaped modules. The other difference is a structure one: the new version is missing some curls at the module's intersection.

With this post I end the hearts avalanche on my blog.