Origami: How to fold a Ring

I’ll show you how to fold a ring with origami paper.

It’s a good point of origami ring to change the size too.★

Also, it will be the birthstone-ring

if you use the same colored-origami paper as your birthstone too.

You can also decorate them, making various colored origami paper.

They will be pretty too!

You will feel nostalgic remembering your childhood.♥

How to fold a ring 1   A ring with a big stone

１．Get the half-cut origami ready.  Fold it in half and make a crease.

２．Fold both sides to the crease that you made.

３．Fold it in half.

４．Fold both corners to the middle crease and make creases.

５．Insert both corners inside and fold them along the creases

that you made in No.4, as picture No.6 shows.

６．Fold both sides of the top layer to the middle crease.

７．Fold it the same way on the back too.

Open both sides, as picture No.8 shows.

８．Insert the edge to the other slit.

Adjust the length, cutting with scissors.

９．And it’s done!

How to fold a ring 2    A heart-shaped ring

１．Get 1/4 sized origami paper (7.5~9cm) ready.  Fold it in half.

２．Fold only the top sheet in half, as picture No.3 shows.

３．Fold the part in half again, as picture No.4 shows.

４．Open it up except the part that you folded In No.3.

５．Fold it in half.

６．Fold the left corner to the right side.

Fold it the same way on the other side too, as picture No.7 shows.

７．Open it up, as picture No.8 shows.

８．Fold the top up, along the dotted line.

９．Turn it over and change the direction to upside down,

like picture No.10 shows.

１０．Fold both sides up along the dotted lines and make creases.

１１．Open the bag parts and fold them along the dotted creases,

as picture No.12 shows.

１２．Fold both sides to the middle crease, as picture No.13 shows.

１３．Fold it along the dotted line, as picture No.14 shows.

１４．Change the direction to upside down, as picture No.15 shows.

１５．Fold it down along the dotted line and insert it into the slit.

１６．Fold both tips of the heart a little, as picture No.17 shows.

１７．Turn it over.

１８．Fold it in half.

１９．Fold both sides along the dotted lines

and insert one edge into the other.

２０．And it’s done!

How to fold a ring 3    A ring with the pedestal

※The side facing up will be the color of the ring’s stone.

I put a sheet of gold origami paper in the back this time.

１． Get a half-cut origami paper ready.  Fold it in half and make a crease.

２．Fold both sides to the middle crease and make creases.

３．Fold it twice at both sides along the dotted lines,

as if you roll it from outside.

４．Fold it along the dotted line.

５．Fold both corners along the dotted lines and make creases.

６．Open it up.

７．Fold it along the dotted lines, as picture No.8 shows.

８．Fold both sides to the middle, as picture No.9 shows.

９．Turn it over.

１０．Cut only the top layer with scissors, as picture No.11 shows.

１１．Fold it along the dotted line.

１２．Fold both sides as if you cover the part that you folded in No.11.

１３．Spread it and adjust it well.

１４．And it’s done!

How did you like them?

I bet you’ve made a cute ring or beautiful and gorgeous one too!

It might be a little hard to fold the ring with the pedestal,

since it has two sheets of origami paper together.♪

In that case, you can just fold it with a sheet of paper

and put the extra origami paper only on the middle part

of the completed ring or draw it on the white side too.★

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】