I finished it! Origami Vest

I can't remember when I started this 2004? 2005?

But it's finally finished. It should have been done a lot sooner, but I messed up the machine binding and the buttonholes. So I decided to rip it out and redo it by hand. I just finished tonight!

The vest is reversible, one side is made up of a crane print with two origami cups on the front as pockets. The back has an origami flapping bird and an origami crane.

The reverse side is inspired by the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Little Prince. It is my favorite chapter in the book, chapter 21, where the little prince tames the fox and they become unique to each other and responsible for each other because they have created ties.

The sun is made up of an octagonal twist fold. The little prince is inspired by Neal Elias' human figures and uses the Elias stretch. The fox is a traditional fox model.

The front pockets are made up of the traditional fox and the traditional cup models. The rose is my design based off of a twist fold on a 16 x 16 grid.

The pattern is from Judy Murrah's book, Jacket Jackpot.

Here is a link to some more photos including close ups.

Brokenbridge A&S Night

Sir Hopsalot at Brokenbridge A&S Night.
He morphed into Little Bunny Fou Fou. Complete with skewered mouse and good fairy!

Barbara filked the original story by filching Sir Walter Scott’s Lochinvar to commemorate Sir Hopsalot's brave demise.

The Ballad of Sir Hopsalot, or Once A Knight for a Only a Day

O, Young Sir Hopsalot came out of the west
A brand-new, young knight to be put to the test.
He knew that his actions would be all the best
If he could but find a fine task on his quest.

“O I am so handsome, O I am so strong”
He sang to himself as he traveled along.
“I am always right, because I’m never wrong,
I excell in might, and I excell in song.”

“All of the young ladies will flock to my bed,
And all of my enemies soon will be dead.
I would wear a helmet with a plume of red
If only one could fit upon my swelled head.”

One day he met with the vile Grendel Tigger
Who said, “We need a strong hero with vigor,
Whose fame and wealth could stand to become bigger
Molly is slick, so we need someone slicker.”

“Vile Molly has captured the fair young Nicole.
This lady’s enchanted and hid in a hole,
Surrounded by treasures so rich beyond toll,
To rescue this lady must be our knight’s goal.”

“Vile Molly steals things that she chews night and day
Nicole’s to be next if she can’t get away!
You’ll gain all of vile Molly’s toys as your pay
If you but this vile Molly Monster can slay.”

“Most certainly I shall embark on this quest.
I’ll show all the world Hopsalot is the best.
I’ll rid Unclaimed Lands of this vile, smelly pest.”
(He was unaware of the cruel Grendel-jest.

For Tigger had plans of her own, now, you see
“This Molly’s a nuisance, and always will be.
If Michele isn’t walking that dog out to pee...
Then, all of her love and attention’s for MEE!)

So Hopsalot went onto the tourney field
“I’ll show them, my quality will be revealed.”
But breeding will out, and his fate soon sealed
And he gained foul wounds that could never be healed.

For Molly was quicker and Molly was strong,
And pulped up and gulped him before very long.
This may have been right, or perhaps it was wrong
In any case, this is the end of our song.

Sir Hopsalot and the Pets of DOOM!

Meet Sir Hopsalot.

















He was a brave and noble knight residing in the Canton of Brokenbridge. He was so well loved the Canton placed him on their device.









This is the story of Sir Hopsalot and the pets of DOOM!






One day as Sir Hopsalot was hopping along admiring himself and enjoying the adulation of the denizens of the Canton.

(Please note the frog featured prominently in the foreground.)


He encountered the great MOLLY monster! Now Molly was great with wroth and envy at Sir Hopsalot, because he had all those denizens... and well they are really HER chew toys, and she really didn't like the idea of him absconding with them. And Sir Hopsalot is a rabbit. And Molly is a beagle. And as the saying goes, breeding will tell...

Molly was also greatly annoyed, aggravated, and generally pissy, b/c the stupid human kept on dressing her up and putting booties on her feet.

And so this was the mood the Molly Monster was in when poor, brave, and noble, Sir Hopsalot encountered her.

(Mommy, this is humiliating. I'm going to GET you for this.)


But! It's also a tail... oops I mean tale... of betrayal and sibling rivalry. You see, the EVIL Tigger Grendel was jealous of the Molly Monster and the attention she took away from HIM!!! Because Tigger was no longer the center of the human's world. Tigger did not want to share his toys and his human with the upstart canine. So he brooded and plotted and thought dastardly thoughts.

Tigger Grendel had heard of the great, brave, and noble Sir Hopsalot. He decided he would seek out this paragon of knightly virtue and chivalry and tell him about the DREADED Molly Monster who liked to CHEW and MAUL the great knight's adoring throng, not to mention Tigger's own catnip toys.

So one day Sir Hopsalot bumped into Tigger Grendel along one of his perambulations.
"EEK!" Squeaked Sir Hopsalot. "Ehem! I mean how do you do this fine day, milord?" As he attempted to edge away from Tigger's carnivorous fangs.

"Oh! Sir Knight! You must help! There is a monster that lives in a cave filled with treasure! She's been dragging your friends off to her treasure cave in a dark mere and CHEWING on them! Sir Knight! you must save them!"




"What!" cried the knight, brandishing sword and nearly slicing off Tigger Grendel's beautiful whiskers. Tigger leaped back just in the nick of time saving his whiskers of which he was VERY PROUD. "Tell me where this evil villianess is!! I will save my friends and rescue the beautiful Nicole from her foul paws!"





So Tigger told the brave and noble knight where the Molly Monster's cave was. And they plotted her demise.







Sir Hopsalot hopped along to the Molly Monster's treasure cave and confronted her.

Devastated by the carnage he saw scattered about, he challenged her to a duel!

Well, unfortunately, it did not go as the knight planned. He is a rabbit and she is a beagle.





She decapitated him and calmly went back to chewing on his friends.

The End

Author's note: No live animals were harmed in the writing of this story. Origami stunt animals were however dismembered by the armload.

Postscript from the actors:
Molly: that's what she thinks! That was so HUMILIATING. How am I supposed to face my friends in the dog run???
Tigger: That's so wrong!! If I were really plotting against the mutt, do you THINK I would be so INEPT!!! PLUH--EEZE I'm a cat! I don't do inept. HUMPH!!!