Christmas Ornaments-Mini Paper Bog Coat
November 25, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Christmas & Christmas projects & holiday crafts, crafts, doll and dolls and dollmaking, easy projects & fast projects
A week or so ago, I made a tiny bog coat from little squares made on the Magic Loom.
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I ‘ve been thinking
that you could make
great little bog coats
from Origami Paper,
to use as Christmas ornaments.
Fold a square
of origami or
other decorative paper
in half.
(Note that you
can use a square
of any size that you want).
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Now,
open the
square of paper up
and fold it
in half
again,
top to bottom.
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Open the
paper up
and fold
the top edge
to the center
line.
The top section
is going to
become the sleeves.
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Open it up again
and fold the side
edges to the
center.
This will
create the
center front opening
of the bog coat, as
well as the side edges
of the coat or jacket.
I drew lines on
the paper
so you could
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see which
fold lines
you’ll need
to cut to complete
the bog jacket.
Black dotted lines
are folds,
and the red lines
are the cutting lines.
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You can see now
that the lines are
snipped, how
the folds
form the shape
of the jacket or coat.
Isn’t that clever?
People have done
this for thousands of years.
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If it was made in
cloth, you would
stitch the
underarm seams,
and across the fronts
of the jacket to join
the upper sections.
But, since this is paper,
all you need
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is a couple of
snippets of paper
and some glue,
and Voila!
You have made
a very cute
little bog coat
to hang on the
Christmas tree,
or glue to a card,
or to embellish
in lots of fun ways…. I’ll post some of them soon, so stay tuned!
That’s really clever. With the origami paper, it look more like a kimono to me. You could do lots of cool things with this design. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Eileen
Yes… the origami paper does make it look very much like a kimono… and oh yes! you can do so many fun things with it! I’ll be posting more about them soon…
Origami paper! Brilliant, Noreen…you think of the most clever things
Thanks so much, Cyndi!