Help with Lang's grasshopper

GreyGeese · Post by **GreyGeese** » August 27th, 2007, 1:36 pm

I have tried about a dozen times to fold the grasshopper beginning on page 41 of Lang's Complete Book of Origami. It has never looked the way it should when I get to step 10. Sinking the right-hand corner of the small preliminary fold (in step 8 or 9, a complex sink with two creases that he does not explain) should result in both a small flap extending out to the right and a larger one hidden inside. I can accomplish either of these separately, but never both together.

Any advice from someone who has successfully folded this particular model would be most welcome.

GreyGeese · Post by **GreyGeese** » September 4th, 2007, 4:54 pm

It turns out that Lang used this same fold for his desert tortoise in Origami Zoo. There, he explains it much more clearly. I can do it now (and have successfully completed the grasshopper), but still not neatly.
Thanks for all your help.