Origami Aster

Origami Aster

Posted by The Dark Vixen

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This 8-piece modular origami flower is great to hang on Christmas trees or just around the house. It looks awesome on both sides.

Designed by Michael G. LaFosse

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You Will Need (1 thing)

8 Pieces of Same-sized Paper

Steps (26 steps, 20 minutes)

1

Take one of your pieces of paper and fold in half diagonal.
2

Unfold, now you have a crease!
3

Kite Base: Fold the bottom edges to the center crease you made in step 1.
4

Unfold
5

Fold the corners on the right and left to the creases you just made. Now fold along the crease you made in step 4.
6

I should look like this. Turn your piece over.
7

Fold the bottom the space between the top corners ( where the blue dot is on the picture)
8

The finished module! Now make 8 of em
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Hey! Ur in my seat!
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The completed modules. Now time to assemble the aster.
11

Take 2 of your modules and place them side by side. Now gently slide the right module into the left modules slot or pocket (the circled area)
12

This is what it should look like now. Turn the pieces over.
13

Now, carefully insert the module now on the rights indicated corner into the left modules slot.
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Step in progress....
15

This is now what it should look like.
16

Now, fold back along the edge of the right module ( where the black line is) . This will lock the 2 modules together!
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This is the step in progress....
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It should now look like this!
19

Keep joining more modules too the 2 you just connected.
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Keep adding and locking in till you only have one module left.
21

Be very careful when connecting this one.
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Almost there....
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Lock them together.....and....
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Done! Both sides are equally cool
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I hope you enjoyed this turtorial! If you need help or if anything is confusing just leave a comment below and I’ll see how I can help you!
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Feel free to hang them too!