A Butterfly for Anne LaVin

“The Anne”

This design is named for Anne LaVin, origami creator, teacher, cyber-world master of origami websites and our new digital realities.

“The Anne” is our keeper of the cyber-keys, as comfortable in the computer ether as she is in the sheet-forming vat technologies of two thousand years ago. “The Anne” is at ease in the MIT or New York City classroom as she is on the high seas.

sails ships on high seas
bytes and chips, learns Japanese
all this, for pond weed!

This design will introduce an inside-reverse swivel for a distinctive, geometric look. As diagramed, the model displays the hindwing configuration of my original gift to Anne. However, the example shown below has the hindwing pockets turned inside out, a popular and elegant variation that I demonstrate on the second DVD.

1. Fold up through step 17 (omitting step 13—don’t turn the triangle pocket inside-out) of A Butterfly for June Sakamoto (page 94). Valley-fold the top flap down, making the corner touch the indicated folded edge.

2. Narrow the flap by valley-folding the paper over and over, in thirds.

3. Rearrange the flaps: left to right, in front, and right to left, behind. Rotate the paper 180 degrees.

4. One at a time, squash-fold the upper left and right halves of the paper to form the wings. Look ahead to see the shape.

5. Move the top layers of the wings inward while moving the trailing edges upward. Squash-fold to flatten. Look ahead for the shape.

6. Valley-fold each flap over.

7. Inside-reverse fold the indicated flap on each wing.

8. Mountain- and valley-fold the abdomen over the right wing. Notice the angle of the fold line.

9. Valley-fold the wings to match. Open the wings out to each side of the body.

10. (A) Squash-fold the paper for the head. (B) Mountain-fold the corner behind. (C) Your paper should look like this. (D) Fold the wings together.

11. (A) Mountain-fold the abdomen edges inside. (B) Valley-fold the wings down on each side.

A Butterfly for Anne LaVin.