Origami Dollar Bill 3d Mini Dress Instructions

1.  First fold the dollar bill lengthwise with a mountain fold using the top and bottom of the one as a guide.

 

2.  Fold over between one to two mm to the outside.  This is to taste.

3.  Mountain fold in half.

4.  First orient the dollar bill like below.  Take the crease and fold up to the inner part of the O.

5.  Mountain fold so you are folding across the semicircle.

6.  Fold the semicircle up to about the tip of the pyramid.

7.On an angle fold back the bottom edge of the bustier.  The top part of the skirt angles because of a spreas squash.  I recommend looking ahead to the next few steps first.

8.  View from the back.  Do the same symmetrically to the other side.

9.  Back View-flip over.

10.  Front view.

11.  Fold down so there is about as much white as color.

12.  Fold back up so the white is the bustier edge detail

13.  Mountain fold edges on either side to shape bustier

14.  Pull the center flap down

15.  Flatten symmetrically as shown.

16.  Shape edge of lower skirt on both sides symmetrically

17.  Fold the bottom up to taste.  In the back fold over the edges that are sticking out and tuck under the pleat at the waist.  Pull apart the creases at the bottom to give 3 dimensionality to the bottom.  It will not necessarily lie flat.

18.  Now I push the pleat apart where the bust should be to make the bustier 3d.  You are expanding the pleat only at the tip of the breast and then flattening the new creases.  You can see the side view.

19.  The last step is to push down the centerbar so that the bustier is more 3d and you only see the white band.  Then you are done.  Shape till happy.