177: Hedwig

Now I am the first to admit I am an out and proud Harry Potter fan. I have consumed all the content JK Rowling has produced on the world of magical and muggle, and particularly like the use of Owl Post:

Looming is the release of Deathly Hollows part 2 and more recently mention of “Pottermore” which I hoped would be an MMO or immersive world because I thought it would be cool to play a character in that realm. sadly Pottermore will not be anywhere near as cool, but maybe more potterverse, but will watch with eager anticipation.

I found the Spanish origami Society’s magazine archive “Esquinas” – in it was this rather splendid owl. the instructions take a lot for granted, annotations in Spanish do not really help but I muggled through.

There is much to love about this model – it stands by itself, rather cheekily and I can imagine it perched on a branch or taking pride of place in an owlery, it has a lovely round tummy, some fascinating eyes (the next time I fold this, now I know what goes where I am sure I could fashion pupils etc) and the overall proportions are neat. this is a clever design because everything tucks inside and there were only a couple of errors in the diagrams that were easy to fix visually.

7 thoughts on “177: Hedwig

  1. Hi there! Thanks for the pictures of this pretty owl! However, I am having some trouble moving forward from the third picture on. Do you have some instructions that I could use to go from picture 3 on?

    1. I had the same problem, Tiffany… It’s pretty much blowing my mind trying to finagle the paper into the fourth shape, and truthfully, I’m not even certain the 3 frame makes any sense. Maybe you have to cut it?

      1. My blog is not really designed as photodiagrams, more hints to myself on what goes where. I am now not sure where I got the original diagrams for this owl – pretty sure it was from a “4 esquinas” eMagazine from the Spanish Origami Society, but I cannot find it anywhere now, sorry

  2. Thank you, thank you to Haine for the link!! I speak Spanish, so that helps me SOOO much. I was coming up short in locating it. I want to complete it, so I can share with my students at our upcoming HP night in October.

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