Origami Sailboat

In the book, Teach Yourself Origami by John Montroll, he states that there three levels to origami making; beginner, intermediate and advanced. There are more pages dedicated towards beginners because not many people make origami and are advanced. The sailboat I made happened to be in the beginner section.

In order to make the sailboat you have to do a preliminary fold, Montroll states that the preliminary fold is a structure for many origami designs. There are two methods were you can do in order to achieve the preliminary fold. Method one is using squash folds and method two is to fold and unfold. (18) To make the sailboat, it said to use the second method (fold and unfold).

While making the sailboat, I got confused because I only looked at the page which the sailboat was on and didn’t look back at the page about preliminary folds. The step that I got stuck on was “To fold inside, open the model. Repeat behind.” (19) Since I already messed up on the previous step which was to make the preliminary fold, I had to look back at the picture more than once. If your making origami I suggest that you look carefully at the pictures/texts or it will mess up your origami.

What kind of paper do you think works the best for origami?

             Montroll, John. Teach Yourself Origami. New York: Dover Publicatons, 1998. Print.