An origami a day

Hey I am back and this time I have decided to try an origami instruction each day and post them here along with the link to the instruction ( a usual thing which I always do ).

So from now on I would folding an origami model daily for next one year and post my foldings here.I will also try to post the instructions or link to instructions if it is possible (To be read as link to the instructions to be posted as making videos seems difficult....)

I will try to put those creations into use(apart from show piece purpose)if possible.

So that means I would be trying some 365 Origami instructions picked randomly from internet.Hope to achieve my goal.

I found a similar and interesting idea called Origami calendar.The calendar is made of square papers ,each page/day has an origami instruction on its back and as the day is over you can tear up the page and try the origami instruction thus learning origami slowly and steadily ..

For those who want to buy the origami calendar they can buy it  here .


Note :- The link to the instruction means the source on internet from where I learnt it. I don't own rights of those .

Traditional buttonhole flower

One more origami flower.Basically the flower folding can be considered in the simple category except the last part where you need to do a little bit of manipulation to get the petals open.I would recommend use of medium sized paper to make the flower as I felt that the big once wont look that good(purely personal opinion) and the small ones are difficult to open the petals and make the petals remain open.

My first few attempts were diastrous but finally I could make it though it didnt turn up that great.

You can get the diagram here and photo instructions here.

I have taken one fourth of 5 7/8th inch square sheet of origami paper of blue colour.

I found one video on net related to traditional buttonhole flower instructions.Though I don't know how useful this video would be but still I felt it would be better to add the link here.

Video:-
Traditional buttonhole flower

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!