I am starting a new series of Kaleidoscopic Twisters. This first NEW one is spectacular. It is folded from one 12 inch by 114 inch rectangle – white on one side and orange on the other.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/16113115663/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstfold/16113111223/in/photostream/ If you thought the first “Kaleidoscopic Twister” was difficult to fold well this one is “Wicked Hard” to fold but conceptually easy to diagram. I’m starting rumors about a book in progress. You will just have to wait. Here is a verbal description of the process. One of the harder tasks for this fold is to prepare a sheet of paper that is 114 inches long. I started with a 24 inch roll of Fadeless Bulletin Board Paper. I could have used my roll cutter (Santee’s Super Slicer) but decided that to demonstrate an alternative method of cutting the desired rectangle I would use a roll cutter and a cutting mat. I moved my cutting mat one inch over the edge of the table so I could use clips to clip segments of the paper to the cutting mat. I then used a 12 by 12 piece of cardstock as a template for the width of the fold which was also clipped to the bottom of my cutting board. I placed a metal yard stick at the top of the cardstock and used a rolling cutter to cut a small length. I then unrolled more paper and continued the cutting process until I reached the end of the roll. This is the folding process. The first steps were all simple valley/mountain folds. I performed a three fold transition of the back color to the front color on each of 6 eighteen inch segments. The resulted in 6 half squares of alternating color across the entire length of the rectangle with a little extra overlapping paper. (The overlap is used to complete the final attachment of the rectangle into a ring). The folded rectangle at this point is 12 inches by 78 inches – NO cuts and hopefully no tears. I then folded the top and bottom edge of the length of the rectangle to the center and folded back towards the edge leaving about a half inch display on the bottom. 4 very long folds but conceptually simple. This gives the unique visual pattern of from the front and back color that is characteristic of this model. Finally, you fold the model in a similar fashion as you would the original kaleidoscopic twister. Yep – you fold a slightly modified Twister pattern on top of the already folded back and front visual pattern. This can be challenging as you need to fold an intricate pleating structure using paper that may already have as many as 7 layers in some areas. If you can’t fold from the Sara Adam’s video of my Kaleidoscopic Twister, then this model is NOT for you. Just circle the resulting folds and nest the ends securely and wa-la a “Mega Twister” emerges. Charles “Doc” Santee
