monthly challenge for February
Posted: February 1st, 2017, 6:28 pm
The challenge for February will be “Folded Cuts”. Other than cutting rectangular shapes, you may NOT actually perform cuts but only represent the act or result of cutting through a process of folding. You might use folds to represent one or more of the following:
1) The individuals, animals or plants that might be performing the cuts such as Doctors, Carpenters, Designers, Saber tooth tigers
2) The tools or machinery used to perform cuts such as scissors, band saws, lasers
3) A representation of something that has been cut such as an apple slice, an incision, a port hole
4) Something that might normally be cut from paper but you will actually fold such as a string of paper dolls or paper snowflakes.
5) A representation of a slightly different definition of the word cut such as “Cut the deck”
6) Finally, finally fold in a way to create a cut, then, actually use this folded “Cut” to complete the model – see the examples below.
The more you think about this the more ideas you will find.
Here are a few of the idea I came up with.
My winning entry for the challenge of March 2012 was a full size three button vest with buttons and button holes (the holes were folded – not cut). This was in part inspired by the memory of my wife first new sewing machine that prepared and cut button holes in materials. I made the button holes but perhaps you could make the sewing machine.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
I first made just the button holes in 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doe6m5at9p8
My next example is a puzzle that represents a flex square that normally is just a square with a “X” cut in the middle of the square. My version recreates the cut “X” by some creative folding – no cuts.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
My final example is a string of color changing cubes. The video presents both the actually cut version followed by the version that is folded entirely from one uncut rectangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYqS7uSLqU
1) The individuals, animals or plants that might be performing the cuts such as Doctors, Carpenters, Designers, Saber tooth tigers
2) The tools or machinery used to perform cuts such as scissors, band saws, lasers
3) A representation of something that has been cut such as an apple slice, an incision, a port hole
4) Something that might normally be cut from paper but you will actually fold such as a string of paper dolls or paper snowflakes.
5) A representation of a slightly different definition of the word cut such as “Cut the deck”
6) Finally, finally fold in a way to create a cut, then, actually use this folded “Cut” to complete the model – see the examples below.
The more you think about this the more ideas you will find.
Here are a few of the idea I came up with.
My winning entry for the challenge of March 2012 was a full size three button vest with buttons and button holes (the holes were folded – not cut). This was in part inspired by the memory of my wife first new sewing machine that prepared and cut button holes in materials. I made the button holes but perhaps you could make the sewing machine.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
I first made just the button holes in 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doe6m5at9p8
My next example is a puzzle that represents a flex square that normally is just a square with a “X” cut in the middle of the square. My version recreates the cut “X” by some creative folding – no cuts.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold ... ed-public/
My final example is a string of color changing cubes. The video presents both the actually cut version followed by the version that is folded entirely from one uncut rectangle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYqS7uSLqU
