I actually made these stars 9 years ago during our Christmas in Japan. Â 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. Â I made about 80 of them and shipped half of them back to family in the states.
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. Â then I cut them all into the largest hexagons I could get out of the squares.
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. Â 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.
Then follow the video for folding the pentagon. Â 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! Â Done! Â These are still one of my favorite of all the ornaments I’ve made over the years!
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Gwen @ Gwenny Penny
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 🙂
Ashlee
Thanks Gwen! It was a really fun one to make, I love doing it every year!
Susan
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!
Ashlee
great! I just made a cardstock template and used that to cut all my fabric out
diane
these are beautiful and i am japanese, but born in the u.s….
Ashlee
Thank you! I love these, unpacking them every year reminds me of that wonderful year we spent living there!