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Need help folding an Azalea
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 3:59 pm
by Adam
Hey there,
I've been trying to fold an azalea following
this diagram.. However, I don't really understand what I have to do at step 13 and 14. Could anyone perhaps post some pictures of what I have to do there to clarify it?
Best regards,
Adam
Posted: January 4th, 2008, 1:05 am
by Nathan
Hey Adam and welcome to the forum! I just tried this model and took some pictures. How impure~ it's folded from a rectangle. Tsk tsk (just kidding!)
Ok. So, the instructions were, lets say, pretty ambiguous. I had a hard time figuring out many some of the later steps as well as steps 13 & 14.
I may make some more photo-diagrams of the later steps if you have troubles with those steps as well- don't beat yourself up about it.
Here are photo-diagrams for steps 13 & 14:
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15. Complete
Good Luck!
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note1: when I say pictures, I'm talking to my photo-diagrams. When I say diagrams, I'm referring to the diagrams drawn by Kalei Anne Lundberg, the creator of the azalea.
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note2: my pictures start from step 13 of the diagram and end at step 15
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note3: in the diagrams, steps 13-14 are multiple steps. My pictures 2-5 depict swinging the bird-bases behind to get to the first stage, and pictures 6-7 get from the first stage to the second stage, or what is shown in step 14 of the diagrams.
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note4: my pictures 13 & 14 show the opposite side (like what is shown in step 19 of the diagram)
Posted: January 4th, 2008, 1:45 am
by Adam
Nathan, you're awesome! I owe you one. Now I can finally finish this beautiful flower.
Posted: January 30th, 2008, 1:03 pm
by veltsu90
Im having problems with this azalea too, but mine is slightly different, this here is my azalea at step 13:
front:
rear:
I assume you see the difference. Now what am i doing wrong? i have done this over and over again many times to find out the step im doing wrong, but it seems i cant find it. and what´s really awkward is that my origami looks the same as the one in the diagram at step 13, yet still im doing it wrong somehow, please help
Posted: January 30th, 2008, 4:42 pm
by JeossMayhem
If I remember that step correctly, it isn't supposed to be the same on both sides, if that was what you were wondering.
Posted: January 30th, 2008, 5:32 pm
by veltsu90
Its not the same looking from both sides, but if you look at Nathans step 13, it looks compleately different.
Posted: April 14th, 2008, 10:29 pm
by origami_kid
Wow...your azalea is really cool...I really don't know how you managed to pull the petals all the way that far...When I fold it mine is kind of out of geometry. I can't manage to arrange the petals simetrical like.Here's some pictures:
[img]http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.838ccdc354.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.009eeee97c.jpg[/img]
Can you tell me how you arrange the petals in the end please?
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 1:22 am
by Nathan
I don't exactly get the question. My petals were the same length as yours, but I shortened it to round out the end. The petals may look long because of the angle of which I took the picture at- the rest of the stem was hidden beneath the petals.
When I folded the flower, arranging the petals was a royal pain. It was very hard to make the flower look presentable. In truth, I don't like this model very much. That might also be because I'm not a flower person. The only other flower I've ever folded is Robert Lang's rose.