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Fabric Origami Christmas Star Ornaments

Published: December 7, 2012 | Updated: March 27, 2017 | By Ashlee

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I actually made these stars 9 years ago during our Christmas in Japan.  We hadn’t been able to ship anything over, and we certainly didn’t have a tree so I found some gorgeous Japanese fat quarter squares and made these ornaments.  I made about 80 of them and shipped half of them back to family in the states.

origami is fun, and using it with fabric and stiffener to create ornaments creates beautiful results

I started out by stiffening all the fabric squares, I soaked them in Stiffy, wrung them out and layed them out to dry for a week or so.  then I cut them all into the largest hexagons I could get out of the squares.

we made these fabric origami stars for our christmas tree when we were living in japan, they are still a favorite!

I can’t find my original instructions for these stars, but I found this video that shows how to cut a perfect hexagon and how to fold these.  If you want to do a fabric version like I did DON’T follow the instructions for cutting the pentagon, you don’t want too many folds or your lose the stiffness, just cut a paper pentagon and use it as a template for your fabric.

details from this origami fabric star

Then follow the video for folding the pentagon.  Then I sprayed them slightly to get them a bit damp, used paper clips to hold the creases and let them dry for a few days again!

Finally I added some seed beads and thick upholstery thread to one of the points for them to hang from!  Done!  These are still one of my favorite of all the ornaments I’ve made over the years!

origami is fun, and using it with fabric and stiffener to create ornaments creates beautiful results like these origami stars! free tutorial

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  1. Gwen @ Gwenny Penny

    December 8, 2012 at 5:39 am

    I can see why these are some of your favorite ornaments, Ashlee. They’re beautiful! I love origami, and I so love the idea of doing fabric origami. Will be trying 🙂

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    • Ashlee

      December 11, 2012 at 1:16 pm

      Thanks Gwen! It was a really fun one to make, I love doing it every year!

  2. Susan

    January 5, 2013 at 10:00 am

    This ornament is gorgeous! To simplify the process, I used basic shapes in Microsoft Word. You can make the shape in any size you want!

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    • Ashlee

      January 6, 2013 at 3:24 am

      great! I just made a cardstock template and used that to cut all my fabric out

  3. diane

    October 29, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    these are beautiful and i am japanese, but born in the u.s….

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    • Ashlee

      November 15, 2013 at 10:40 pm

      Thank you! I love these, unpacking them every year reminds me of that wonderful year we spent living there!

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