Dollar Bill Butterfly Ring
Same old spiel…creative commons, if you’ve seen it before drop a line and I’ll put information and links in…
Butterfly is big-this is origami bling and would engulf a childs hand, granted my fingers are stubby little nubs, but that said tis a large butterfly not a diminuitive winged ring thing.
1. Fold bill in half lengthwise.
2. Bisect right angles and unfold as indicated in pictures two and three.
3. I flipped the dollar over and then created two vertical creases using the point of intersection from the two previous creases. Undo and then flip and make two waterbomb bases on each end.
4. Fold the bottom up approximately 1/3 vertically and then fold the top down.
5. Flip over the “arrow” and then you are valley folding a vertical crease. I line it up with the curve, allowing that to represent the body. The bigger the tip you fold over the smaller the ring.
6. Open sink the tip.
7. Wrap the bill around(refer to picture) and you are going to put the tip into the open sunk tip. If you can make it match up as you slide it in it will be stronger.
8. To form wings I pinch a little paper horizontally and fold down. I then fold the little tip where they meet inside (this is a common fold in butterfly wings I think)
9. Flip the bottom of the wing tips.
Hi Christine:
Looks like another beautiful creation. I havent seen this before.
Andrew
Thanks Andrew
Nice fold.
You folk in the States have it easy with folding currency. 7 by 3 lends itself to all sort of treatments. Over here in the UK the money is, roughly, a 1 by 1.9 rectangle. Exactly, 1 by 1.8918918 for a £10 note.
How do you get the tip to “sink”?
Diana you spread out the tip and push the little triangle that was folded to the inside (a waterbomb shape). You do have to reverse a few creases to do this. Here is a site that shows how to do open sinks.
This is a link to a youtube video that shows and open sink.
I was shocked at how easy this was to make. The “tooth fairy” just made one for my daughter. Thanks!
The tip keeps sliding out during step 7. Am I doing something wrong?
Hana-Two things may be an issue. The first is the bill needs to be crisp. If it isn’t it tends to slide out. The second is that you get all four edges into different spaces. Finally if that doesn’t work I hate to say it but some lightly balled tape inside might work.
Thank you for answering.
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Umm when u wrote open sink the ti, what does that mean
Joe,
A nice illustration is at the bottom of this page here http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/9351/bases.html
Best of luck,
Christine
This was so fun and easy to make! Thanks so much for sharing!
this was so easy. love it. and it makes a good tip for waitresses
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I’m new to oragami, stuck on “open sink the tip” #6, and the site listed for instructions no longer exists. any other suggestions?
Here is pictoral instructions. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://origamania.free.fr/Solfege/OpenSink.gif&imgrefurl=http://origamania.free.fr/Francais/Plier/Solfege/Solfege2.html&h=232&w=331&sz=2&tbnid=Kh8piMyRh3RJcM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dopen%2Bsink&usg=__g1-IoaG3FB99k4nr6Ia97XAaRQM=&sa=X&ei=NO5cTOKtMMOclgeXhumYCA&ved=0CDgQ9QEwBQ
I also recommend just doing a google search to any term that is new to you and often instructions will pop up.
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