July Origami Purse

 

I show such a purse every month of this year here, and for July I'm already a bit late now - but here it is, my Origami purse for July, I just like so much the effect when they open their "wings"! - 

and as always such a purse is made to hold some little things, and in my case they hold small folded notes with an Haiku poem written on it.  

This (German) Haiku is about a purring cat, she's here:

Happy summer days everyone!

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In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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Traditional Patterns in Bookmarks

Here are a couple of bookmarks showing traditional patterns, 

and I use them here in some of my favorite books, 

which are: 

John Berger, Das Kunstwerk, Wagenbach, 1992

the names of the patterns are:

Churn Dash, Card Tricks and Road to California

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land,

HarperCollins 2021

the name of the pattern is: 

Log Cabin

David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue,

Sceptre, 2020

here simple patches are used and hand-quilted 

(as all my bookmarks are hand-sewn and hand-quilted)

Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds,

St. Martin's Press, 2021

the names of the patterns are:

Maltese Cross and Pinwheels

Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea,

Bloomsbury 2020

the names of the patterns are:

Four-Pointed Star,  Nine Patch and Amish Diamond

... and this is the book "Creativity, the perfect crime" by 

Philippe Petit (the legendary tightrope-dancer) and

the name of the pattern in my bookmark here is "Irish Chain"

I wish you have a lovely summer time and - if you like books - have always some lovely books at hand to accompany you.

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June - Origami Purse

...  this is my Origami - purse for June : 

like the ones shown here before, this one, too, holds little things,

like now my folded note of a June-Haiku,

and opens up like this:

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In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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May - Origami Purse

...  such a purse holds little things, like this folded note of a May-Haiku,

and opens up like this:

 

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In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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Have a lovely May!

Bookmark "Zolofelo"

 

a bookmark I made (three layers of fabric, patchwork & appliqué, sewn and quilted by hand),

I call this design "Zolofelo", which is an African name and means 

Joy and Hope 

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Here are some more:

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Happy Easter!

“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.” 

― David Housholder, The Blackberry Bush

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/easter

Happy Easter!  

April - Origami Purse

... and it holds a little Haiku-Note :

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In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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March - Origami Purse

 

... and when it opens, it's like this :

It can hold little things, like this folded note with a Haiku-poem written on it:

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In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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Three Origami-Inspired Bookmarks

 

These leaves unfold from the center and have an enveloped stem at the bottom.

If anyone is a bookmark - enthusiast like me,

please go to this fantastic site with lots of lovely quotes, sayings and poems about bookmarks:

https://www.ifobookmarks.org/bookmark-quotes.html

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February - Origami Purse

... and when it opens ...

... I can take little things out, like my folded note with my February- Haiku:

Happy February days to everyone!

In case anyone would like to check on how to fold the Origami-paper-purse, I found useful instructions here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

For working with fabrics I added some things like a double layer of fabrics, a third layer in the center for a reinforced downside or special seams or quilted lines, and a small button inside. (sewn and quilted by hand)

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January - Origami Purse

Happy New Year!

One of my plans for the New Year is to make such a purse every now and then, and to show one of those each month in 2022 here on this blog.

The purses which I keep for myself will be filled with folded notes which show a Haiku-poem,

so here is my Haiku for January - in German:

➡ I found good advice how to make such a purse here:

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-Tato-Origami-Pleated-Coin-Purse-Fab/

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Merry Christmas!

„Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben: das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.“

―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

- https://gutezitate.com/zitat/256301

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/391004

Mein Wunsch für uns alle zu Weihnachten:

Dass wir uns verbunden fühlen und in einem bewohnten Garten zuhause sind.

Frohe Weihnachten!

My wish for us all at Christmas:

Let us feel emotional bonds and live in an inhabited garden.

Merry Christmas!

Gratitude

Here is a very lovely video showing an installation at the Cornell Botanic Gardens in 2021, 

the "Gratitude Project", 

with "a focus on fostering reflection on how plants and nature enrich our lives" -

the idea came up in 2020 to find 

"a means to promote mindfulness and wellbeing during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic",

we do need something like this,

enjoy!

https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/fluttering-phrases-speak-of-gratitude/

 

December Star

“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” 

– Ben Aaronovitch

https://everydaypower.com/december-quotes/

The book shown here is:

Christmas Bells, by Jennifer Chiaverini, Dutton 2015