Some nautical decorations are necessary on a Christmas tree in a city like Gloucester, so I made these for my tree (which only has origami decorations).
Models designed by Martin Wall (rear ship) and Patricia Crawford (front ship), and folded by me, each from one uncut sheet of 5″ square tissue foil.
Any other Cape Ann origami folders out there? Comment on this post if you’d like to get together to fold from time to time! Maybe we could start a Cape Ann origami group. I’m willing to teach.
About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
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Beautiful! great job.
Should be three ships i think.
Thanks! Funny, my parents pointed out the same thing: everybody sees THREE “ships come sailing in on Christmas day in the morning”… I guess I have to make another!
“I saw three ships come sailing in” was always and is my favorite song of the season. Please make and share another if you have the time. Don’t feel obligated. thanks, Paul
Actually, I was looking for another design to make a third even before anyone commented on it, although I hadn’t made the association with the carol. The two I made are folded from roughly the same base, but I’d like to find one that’s a little different. Maybe I’ll have to try to invent one…
Yes, I’d love to learn this! Are these for sail (sale?) I’d buy one!
Sure, I’d be happy to sail – sorry, sell – you one. You might want to see it first in person. They are very delicate and bendable. I’m working on getting a system to stiffen the paper with an acrylic spray to help keep them from getting bent out of shape.
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