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Summary: For your origami string of butterflies, alternate beads with stone chips. Learn how to fold an origami string in this free paper crafts lesson from an origami expert.
Justina Danison has been doing origami since she was a child. She learned through demonstration from her mother. Her interest kept her flipping through origami books and learning new...read more
"The crimped bead will help to suspend our stone chip, whoops. A crimped bead, a stone chip, and repeat that three times, crimp, chip, crimp, and chip, so three stone chips. Now a crimp bead, and a wooden bead, and one of your models. String it through that hole that we pierced, and let it all drape down. I cut the string too long. Let it all drape down, hold it up like this, and taking your pliers, hold your plier over the last crimp bead, and move your crimp bead, and everything else up and down to the place that you like it to be. Crimp it closed, and that's your first chip. Take the second crimp, do the same thing; move it up and down, crimp. The third; move it up and down, crimp. And finally, for your butterfly, move it to where you like that butterfly to be, and crimp."
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