Addiction

[Crane89]

Recently, I've been addicted to Shuzo Fujimoto's Hydrangea. I've probably folded dozens of them. I folded Hydrangeas at home, at college, on the street, during travels. 3-Stage, 4-stage, up to 7-stage ones. And don't forget Hydrangea tilings (both high and low density - BTW a low density Hydrangea works great as a picture frame). I even created a simple variation!
Today, Sonobe's Spiked Pentakis Dodecahedron healed me from this addiction. This experience made me think: Have you ever been addicted to a specific model like this? And what have you done?

[Metangas]

Yes, I have. The first model I learned (some "Kangaroo" by a Danish folder who's name I've forgot) kinda stuck in my mind, along with every new model with something quirky or interesting about it. I have forgotten most again, mostly because of my progression through the art and loss of interest in plain and regular stretched bird bases and such. I do tend to learn a model rather quickly; I only needed to check one step of Lang's Hercules Beetle from Origami Insects and their Kin after my first time of folding it, and still remember it by heart. But if a model is uninteresting, or I haven't folded it in a long time (read: months) I usually forget them again.

[anonymous person]

I once folded about 20 of rikki donachie's butterfly in a day. at the end of it I looked like this

[origamiperson]

I have also. When I first folded Satoshi Kamiya's Pegasus, I folded a few more, and then memorized it. I was somehow folding it everywhere! I bought a bunch of paper, and I folded around thirty of them! I sold a few at school, and I lost some others. I got out of my addiction a few days ago, when I memorized the unicorn. I think I know what will happen next...

[Sroge4]

I think I'm in the same situation as you I just folded the pegasus, and was going to fold a few more... And it took me five tries to get the model right, so it's almost memorized already

[toto93]

I got addicted to Dave Brill's dolphin, the diagram off his website. I folded it everywhere, I love it because it's folded from A4 proportioned paper so I could make them out of scrap pieces off paper from school work

[Tavin]

I have two models I really like and fold a lot.

First of all it#s this flapping bird:



I fold it very often as a little giveaway. What I like about this model is that it develops really fast and looks really great for the short amount of time one has to put in it. And of course the fact that it's action origami.


Secondly the jumping frog, which was the first origami I ever learned, it was my first fix if you want to put it this way.

[liberategeorge]

I went through a phase of folding lots of Miura-Ken Beauty Roses. I love the design because at first, the crease pattern and folding seem tricky, but once you get the hang of them they're satisfyingly elegant and simple. Also, once the folding is done it looks like an ugly flattened accordeon, but a few minutes of sculpting and it can look beautiful. This sculpting stage gives it a very personal artistic touch, and no two roses look exactly the same. (it's also possible to ruin it at the sculpting stage, which makes a good looking result all the more satisfying).