Origami USA 2014 Convention Countdown

A bit late in uploading this list and pics for the June Origami OUSA Convention but wanted to organize them so they don’t just get lost in the sea of twitter origami pics. I enjoyed last year’s countdown so much (blog entry here) I had to repeat it. It was a good way to get motivated and fold! Unfortunately there were some skipped days there, but that’s ok too. Glad my friend @pprfldr joined me this year.
Link to photos here (also gallery is posted below the list): https://azuletblogphotos.shutterfly.com/pictures/150

OUSA origami 2014 countdown

57 butterflies / Michael LaFosse
55 tie fighter / Jeremy Shafer
52 sunflower / Kobayashi

48 shell decoration / traditional Spanish model from Harbin book
47 angel / Adolfo Cerceda
46 Japanese purse / traditional. Also learned from @pprfldr
45 Robert Neale hummingbird made out of equilateral triangle // Fujimoto hydrangea
44 Robert Harbin 'bird in flight’
43 Traditional lily made with equilateral triangle instead of square
42 Lover's Knot (traditional) learned from @animemiz 
41
Yoshizawa butterfly learned from @pprfldr
40 Flying pig created by Paul Frasco. this pig has his snout low on the ground. 
33 ornamental fish by Rodrigo Lopes de Lisboa
32 Ayako Kawate's color pattern 
31 PaWaritato by Michel Grand
30 more Sunflowers as part of ATC trade. Model designed by Kobayashi 
29 Michael LaFosse hummingbird  
28 Dragon by Emilson Nunes dos Santos
26 Traditional lily with Robert Neale hummingbird. 
24 stacking two 3-petal lilies. Also used wetfold which makes better looking petals.

23 more 3-petal lilies and a Fujimoto hydrangea. 
18 doodling with scrap foil. Flower? Bird? Staff? Unknown!
15 more 3-petal lilies made from stardream. 
5 Bianca star by Carmen Sprung
4 Large 3-petal lily. Stardream is so buttery when wet-folded. Amazing
4 Upside down starbox using equilateral triangle. Oh all the possibilities. 
3 Fun with windmill-like model from a triangle
1 XYZ, omega star and friends at the Thursday night Origami Meetup (good sized crowd, tons of fun!) 
0 Dimetrodon by Fumiaki Kawahata and taught by @creasygoodness after registration, inside the great hall.

Shutterfly Gallery

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Hashtags used on twitter: #ousa14 #foldcountdown #origami
note that my friends @pprfldr and @animemiz and others used various hashtags so there is really no good way of keeping track of them. Maybe we will figure it out next year.
Same picture countdown app as previous year “Big Day Lite”: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/big-day-lite-event-countdown/id303102667?mt=8
Also see my post on lilies (the start of my 3-petal lilies) http://azuleteats.blogspot.com/2014/05/lily-origami.html
and my post on the OUSA ATC Trade. http://azuleteats.blogspot.com/2014/06/origami-usa-artist-trading-cards-2014.html

Lily origami

The original

My favorite origami model is the traditional lily (pictured below). It was one of the more complex and more beautiful flowers in my first origami book (which is a Japanese origami book for kids that was translated into Chinese).

It took me a while to fold it and I'm sure my mom had to help me figure out the steps before I got impatient and declared the particular model "impossible!" (which I did for several models in the book). Years later, I flip through that book again and I can proudly declare that I've probably folded 99% of the models and they are all possible (and actually good diagrams compared to some other books I've seen). Interesting enough, the first model in the bird is the traditional crane. (Note to self: need to scan in book and make into digital book before it falls apart completely)

The Exhibition Brainstorm

For the upcoming Origami USA Convention Exhibition in June, I wanted to do some variation of the traditional lily so was folding them with different shaped polygons (triangles, hexagons, etc). While they all "work", the proportion of the petal to stems are quite comical. 

My friend N. then consequently gave me an ideas to try. "Try cutting two eights pie slice out of an octogon and tape it together to make a cone shaped hexagon, and use that as the base for the Lily, Magic."

I'm not sure if this below is the intended result, but I gave it a shot. It's pretty enough but missing the flower stamen/pistil parts. This would be good for layering or candies though.

The Challenge

This 6 petal lily below was sent from N. with the subject: "Here is a taped version, I like this better than the pie cut, this is based on a square and has petal stem symmetry"

Needless to say, I noticed it's not the same as the versions I've done, and asked for some more instructions.

I could not understand the text instructions which followed and had to ask for more pics to show progression. I got this 8-petal lily with some steps pictured.

more after the jump