Origami Swan

Origami Swan

Today I decided to try origami in the intermediate section because I wanted a challenge. The intermediate section says that the origami was “.. build upon the basic folds shown in chapter 1” (Montroll 52). With that being said, I thought that the intermediate origami wouldn’t be that hard but I was wrong. For my first intermediate origami I wanted to make a swan, there were a total of 23 steps but I was only able to go to step 14 because the rest of the steps were confusing to me. The swan starts with dividing your paper into thirds and then doing a few reverse folds near the end. (Montroll 54). Step 15 prevented me from finishing the swan, the step may seem easy but I didn't know how to reverse fold to make it look like the next step. For me, the reverse folds were difficult to do because the book doesn’t do a good job explaining how to do it.

What folds are difficult for you to do?

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