Folding Instructions Orchid Blossom Chapter 10: Folding Instructions + 6 « «Orchid Blossom 1, Begin with a square, colored side up. Fold and unfold in half vertically and horizontally 2. Fold the bottom edge up te touch the midpoint of the tight edge: the tercuse hits the midpoint of the left ‘edge, but don’t make it sharp in the Jett half of the model 3. Fold and unfold 4. Unfold, 5. Repeat steps 2-4 on the other thee comers. Turn the paper over. fe] i Desi ee eee Origami Design Secrets6. Fold each comer inward along a7. Make vo more creases that diagonal crease that connects two connect pairs of creas crease/edge intersections; make each crease sharp only where shown, 8. Fold four comers inward. intersections, By ee 9, Fold a Waterbomb Base, but only 10. Squeeze the sides inward, gather LL, Reverse-fold the comer make the creases sharp in the middle the excess paper in the middle and swing, inside. of the paper. it over to the right. Repeat behing. Ts fis] Wis I 12. Reverse-fold the inside 14, Repeat steps 11-13 on cage along the center line. the right and on both sides behind. Folding Instructions: Orchid Blossom « « EAISEE) 9009 15, Fold and unfold, 16, Fold the comer to the crease you just made and unfold + 20, Fold dhe corner down along a crease aligned with the edges behind. 21. Fold the comer bback up so that the raw edges line up swith the crease you just made. vi) 25, Repeat 26, Fold two layers to steps 20-24 the right in front and behind, ‘two to the left behind, spreading the layers symmetrically. #6 6 #666 Origami Design Secrets 18] 17. Fold and unfold. 18. Open-sink in and out, v% 22, Fold the corner over along the center line of the ‘model. a4 27. Reverse-fold the 19. Swing the flap to the side and repeat steps 15-18 on the right, Repeat en both sides behind, 23. Unfold to step 20. 24, Reverse-fold the ‘corner in and out on the existing crease, yu 28, Open out the vo hidden corners out two flaps to middle pair of edges to the sides. (Thereare form small ‘on each side apart, three layers in each; it cups, slighily; the model doesn’t matter how you divide the layers, but divide them both the same way.) will not lie flatbots 30, Pleat the edges to take up the cess payer, press the layers of the tip togeth round it into a bowl, 34, Fold the corners over and ever on existing creases, 37. Pinch the stem to narrow itfurther; Spread the small Aap front to the sides, 31. Fold the model in 32, Reverse-fold three 33. Pull out four loose halt (except for the top, Maps together as one. corners vompletely. Which stays rounded). Rotate 12 turn, 38. Squash-fokd five flaps 36, Narrow the stem with (all but the middle flap) to ‘mountain folds. stand out perpendicularly to the other layers. u R Lt 38. Reverse-fold the tips of 39, Finished Orchid the five Hat petals. Shupe Blossom, the flower, Folding Instructions: Orchid Blossom « » «