bored and fidgety

[gnibbles]

Apparently when I get bored and fidgety, I end up folding a bunch of paper cranes for shits and giggles. Have some

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[lakmiseiru]

*grin* Awesome!

[gnibbles]

I'm toying with the idea of painting them with as-accurate-as-I-can species markings of modern cranes, but there are only 15 living species, so I might have to incorporate some storks. :)

[ladymondegreen]

That's brilliant. I wonder if anyone makes wrapping paper or the link with colored squares so you could wind up with multicolor cranes?

I'm here via kdsorceress, and I folded my second set of 1000 cranes last year when I was bored at work, so I empathize with the difficulty of what you're doing.

[gnibbles]

Well, if you can start a proper square on wrapping paper, getting a chain of multi-colored cranes isn't too bad. The only difficulty is that wrapping paper tends to be one color or pattern of background with some sparse splotches of different patterns or colorful designs on top, so most cranes will look like the background color... maybe at different angles.

Congrats on 2000 cranes :)

[ladymondegreen]

Thank you! It was mostly boredom while being on the phone with clients. You'd be amazed at how quickly you can fold 35 cranes.

[gnibbles]

For connected cranes made of standard weight printing paper, it takes me about 3 minutes per crane. I think that's actually on the slow side, but meh. Origami paper is thinner and easier to work with, but generally doesn't come in a large enough form-factor to cut in this way. If you have any thoughts about alternative paper, I'm all ears. :)