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Origami box

Folded box made of pages from Fons & Porter "Scrap Quilting". I have been making these Origami boxes for a very long time. They are beautiful and elegant and very easy to fold. Start with two squares of paper of any size and by making the box twice, you have both top and bottom that fit easily inside each other.  The Fons and Porter Love of Quilting TV series featured a box made of pages from a quilting magazine in the "Tips" section of program # 3001 titled "Diagonally Set Log Cabin Quilts" . I thought this would be an excellent way to highlight these wonderful little paper boxes that are such a pleasure to create. There is a very good video of how to create this box at "Classic Origami Box" on Instructables.com, and "Easy Origami Open Box" . I have shown my process here with a page from the Fons & Porter special bonus issue, "Scrap Quilts". I have developed a simple mnemonic to help me remember how to m