January 15

Tonight I discovered Leyla Torres' nearly 500 variations on the windmill base.  It's just like quilt piecing only with paper folds and no quarter inch seams to worry about!  Scroll down on the linked page to see them all in black and white.

With her video for the most basic beginning of the windmill variations, she talks about "Friederich Fröbel (1782-1852), educator, crystallographer, and originator of the kindergarten concept, was one of the first to point to the creation of folded patterns like these featured here.  Using white paper only, Fröbel created his own unique collection of folded forms of beauty, as he called them."

What fun to have found an infinitely variable yet simple form like this.  Leyla herself has made a veritable quilt of variations....  Mary

Variations on the windmill base - Set 3