I've been watching the snow fall outside all morning and decided to cut a few flakes of my own. I left all of my wonderfully prepared rectangles at school so dug out some old coffee filters to make these flakes. The folding proceedures I used were the same and the coffee filters have a weight similar to tissue paper. I flattened the filter, folded and started to cut. I love the ability to surprise myself with random cuts as well as the ability to plan my cuts for a preconcieved flake design. There are lots of sites on the internet for flake cutting instructions. I prefer to fold the paper in half then into thirds and a final half fold prior to cutting. I found a wonderful page describing this proceedure which included how to incorporate the protractor into the process for precise measuring on the site There's a Dragon in my Art Room. The project is "A Proper Snowflake". Here are some of my flakes and also some pictures of the natural stuff outside!
Thanks for your comments on my blog, and for linking my snowflake instructions too! And congrats on what appears to be a new blog. And since you are new, I'm giving you a link to a post that I wrote with advice for getting blog visitors. Here it is: http://plbrown.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-fabulous-followers-some-advice-for.html I suggest you add a 'followers' gadget so that we can follow you and find our way back easily again.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I am in eastern NY, just came home yesterday from a visit to our son in Boston. It appears you are somewhere in MA?