Cowls and collars

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Any tips for making a large standing cowl/collar thing like this? I had a look online but couldn't find any tutes. Although I think I can fudge it I thought I'd check here for some tips first.

Now for something completely different...

I have a quick and dirty fascinator tutorial on my website.

I also made these not-recently:


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Origami shapes

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Back when I was in high school, I learned to make a simple little origami box by attaching together six little origami diamond-ish shapes. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about, although her pattern and mine use slightly different methods for slightly different results.

Anyway, my box looks like so.


( And then I lost all sense of perspective... )