I'm new to the forum, but very old to origami. I started folding when I was five, and continued through high school. I didn't have any access to good origami books, but I folded every model I could get my hands on. Near the end of my teens, I got really frustrated, and some-what let down, by multi-sheet models and cutting flaps for extra legs I kept having to do. I felt like the models I had access to had hit a complexity ceiling, and I started to grow bored. I stopped folding when I moved away for college, and when I came back, I found my siblings had amassed a collection of Lang and Montroll's books as well as several books from Origami House. They were thrilling to fold, but we didn't have anything but printer paper to fold with, so the more complex models were a very frustrating adventure indeed! I'm finally at the point where I have the means (and even a bit of time!!!) to make tissue-foil and double tissue for my models, and I'm loving it!!
I'm thrilled that the internet had granted me access to such a broad origami community, and I can finally catch up on all the advances in technical design and folding that has happened in the last two decades. I'm even enjoying revisiting all the intermediate models I had glossed over when I was younger, as wet-folding and tissue-foil allow me to fold with an aesthetic that breathes so much more life and character into even the simplest models.
I've been lurking on the boards for a few weeks now, and just wanted to thank everyone for contributing to such a great online origami community
-Sumi-gaeshi
