Origami Folds: Finishing a Water Lily

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to finish our water lily. We folded our blitzes, and we folded the notches in. Now we are going to reverse the petals. This is the tricky part, and it requires some persistence and patience. So, holding the unit in between your hands so that your thumb is pushing down all the center points, note the pockets on the other side. Here, we are going to take our fingers, and put them under the pocket and with our thumb, push down on this little notch that we had made, and reverse the petal. This is why we require some soft and pliable paper. That way, it won't rip on us. Again, we'll do it for all four petals. Holding the center down; reversed the petals. These are the first sets of petals. Now, there are more. There are four more here, and we're going to reverse them as well. And finally, we have a last set of petals to re-fold reverse, and this is the trickiest one of all, because it's one layer, and it can tear more easily. So here, very gently, we're going to reverse that petal, so that we don't rip the very edges. Very gently reverse that petal. Our third one; oops, I ripped it, that's okay. And then finally, the last petal. And then go in there and kind of re-form your water lily to the correct shape, and you have your water lily."