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Sword in the Stone 2.0. I've adjusted the design to fix the proportions - bigger stone, narrower sword.

Sword in the Stone 2.0 by yagowe, on Flickr

A re-working of an old design. Same base, but complete redesign of the head and tail.

Sea Serpent

Designed and folded by Mike Case.
Single square of back-coated lokta.

Sea Serpent 2.0 by yagowe, on Flickr

Sea Serpent 2.0 (detail) by yagowe, on Flickr

Nice sea serpent! I had actually been wanting to fold one like that for a while, but I guess you bet me to it.

That is an awesome sea serpent! Great paper choice also. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Stumbled upon this design while trying to recreate a Kitsune I designed a couple years ago.

Kyuubi no Kitsune (Nine-Tailed Fox) version 2 by yagowe, on Flickr

This was one of my first designs, but at the time I designed it it was a little outside of my ability to fold nicely. I just revisited it with the help of some Thai Banana paper - fitting, in a poetic sense, but too full of bark and stuff to be nice for folding. I might try it again at some point with better paper.


Banana by yagowe, on Flickr

New model. Definitely the trickiest fold I've ever designed.

Grapes by yagowe, on Flickr

These grapes have a really great effect, I liked it a lot. And it looked so in place among the vines...

I read a comment elsewhere in the forum stating that it's good to see designs that escape from the (somewhat) common place of animals. I do love animals, but I also agree that there's a whole universe of things (and plants, and whatever...) waiting to be turned into origami.

Well, I think these grapes are a beautiful example of what we can come up with beyond the animal world.

I just finished a set of instructions for my Grapes. There are some CPs, some step folds, and some descriptions, but it isn't a full set of diagrams. It should be enough so that a reasonably experienced folder can recreate the model, though.

For the April Design Challenge, a skutter from 'Red Dwarf':


Skutter by yagowe, on Flickr

Daffodil
Designed and folded by Mike Case
Single square of backcoated unryu.


Daffodil 2.0 by yagowe, on Flickr

Cactus and two snakes from a single square of paper (unryu/kozo). Designed for the 1st round of ODT #6.

Desert Crossing by yagowe, on Flickr