Banana, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

I designed this a couple weeks ago when I got my hands on some yellow paper, and then realized that I didn't have anything to fold with it... Naturally, a banana came to mind, so I tried my hand at designing one and I think it came out pretty well! This model is best when wetfolded from thick-ish paper. I used two sheets of letter paper glued together, and folded while the glue was still wet.

Diagrams here.

Flower - Anna Kastlunger, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This week we have Anna Kastlunger's Flower. She designed it for the Origami Forum's 30 folds or less challenge. It doesn't have too many folds, but every one counts. And it's got a lot of tension holding it together.

Flower - Anna Kastlunger

Folded from a 15 cm of patterned washi paper. Yep, you can even fold it with that stuff!

Dual Decagrams, by Andrew Hudson, originally uploaded by Origami Weekly.

This model borrows some concepts from John McKeever's Stellations of the Dodecagon. This is one of the first times I've drawn diagrams for something with such a complex color-change pattern, and it was an interesting challenge to draw something with intermeshed layers like this in a program that only supports stacked layers.

Anyway, I was thinking about it and I realized that I spent more time diagramming this model than I did designing and folding it-- which may be a first for me, usually I fold it at least twice before diagramming it.

Diagrams here:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/232756/decagrams.pdf