Another new piece with lacy cutouts. This piece uses a mix of two cutout shapes: the curved shapes I started using recently, and a belt of squares around the middle. As I’ve gotten more comfortable with cutouts, I’ve reached a point where I’m more okay with having sections of the lace pattern where any one mistake will stand out.
I’ve played a bit with different folding sequences as I’ve developed the series. For all of my painted vases, I always start by painting the paper. When laying out the lace, I’m very careful to make sure the cutouts don’t interfere with the structural folds. For the first few pieces in the series, I scored the paper and cut the lace while it was flat, then pre-creased and folded. In the more recent pieces, I’ve decided it works better to pre-crease the paper before cutting the lace pattern. It’s sometimes tricky to cut the lace accurately when the paper isn’t completely flat, but that reduces the risk of tearing the paper near the lace cutouts while I’m pre-creasing.
