3 petal Lily

Earlier in my blog I had wrote about the standard origami Lily.Till date I have made a few origami flowers but I felt the origami Lily seems to be the simplest and beautiful flower.

Recently on internet I saw an origami lily with 5 petals so I searched for the pattern of it but could not find the pattern ,but yes I came across a pattern of Lily with 3 petals.

The pattern is really simple.Its just a slight modification of standard origami Lily.The author of the video calls the flower as Origami bulb flower but I think it could be named as 3 petal origami lily.

Jasmine

Jasmine can be folded using a square paper.I used Post-it Notes of Neon colours to make the flowers because the strength of the paper seemed better to me.The jasmine flowers look better if they are small in size though you can make a big flower too.



I have used Orange and Green Post-it papers ,flower wire and Green floral tape.I made the Jasmine flowers and leafs and arranged them using flower wire + Green floral tape to make the stem.You can use paper to make the stem if you want to stick to only paper flower bunch.


Diagram:-
Oriland

Me and Origami

Long back I had wrote how I started with origami and my first model in my post Folding a paper crane.

Today I will tell you what drove we further into the fascinating world of Origami.
After reading about Origami and the fascinating story about Senbazuru the thousand paper cranes ,I started my mission of searching diagram and videos for folding a paper crane.During my this search I came across a website called Oriland.Oriland had a tab called kingdoms,when you go further into it you with find beautiful paper kingdoms.These kingdoms had castle,gardens,ships,boats,people,flowers ..... everything made out of thousands of colourful papers.It's a wonderful world of origami in there.

Further Origami fascinated me when I saw the the video talk by Robert Lang.


Well I think all this above is enough for raising interest in a person to start on Origami.

Good luck!

Alexander swallowtail butterfly

Butterfly Model 4:-



This is beautiful butterfly design named as Alexander swallowtail butterfly.This design is created by Michael LaFosse.

Complexity :-

On complexity level it is intermediate.

Paper used:-

Normal Origami sheets of 4.5 Inches Square is used to create this model.The paper is one side coloured and one side blank . This model comes best with the use of paper with contrast colours on both sides.

Book:-

Michael LaFosse’s book – Origami Butterflies – which he co-authored with Greg Mudarri and Richard Alexander is a collection of designs on butterflies and this model is taken from there.

Instruction:-

The best place to learn this model is at Michael LaFosses website PEM Origami.It is a 17.51 minutes video.Click on fold more models > In list of 2007 you can find the instruction link for butterfly.

Another simple butterfly model

Butterfly Model 3:-


This is a simple butterfly model widely available on internet.I have used a Post-it note of neon colours to create the butterfly.As the paper is bit thick the butterfly didnt turn up well.Soon I would post a better butterfly :).


Simple Origami paper sheets can be used for the model.Paper can be both side coloured or single side coloured.

Diagram
Bits of Smith


Instruction video:-
Origami butterfly by Adams Sara- youtube