Montroll's Enthusiast Goose

[erfael]

Hi all,

I've been folding for almost two months now, and I'm working my way through a number of books. I've successfully folded through most of Lang's Origami Animals (don't have adequate paper for the Gazelle) and through the intermediate models in Maekawa's Genuine Origami. I've decided to back up and try some "early" origami, so I've been going through Montroll's Origami for the Enthusiast.

I've gotten up to the goose, but I'm having a paper problem. In step 1 there is a rabbit ear fold, which ends up hidden on the inside for the next 13 or so steps. The problem I'm having is that there are a number of reverse folds and petal folds in those intervening steps that are being interefered with by that flap of paper from the first rabbit ear (steps 7 and 13, in particular). I've tried folding it in half to keep it out of the way, which helps for 7, but not for 13. I've found it pretty impossible so far to make a clean petal fold in 13 with that in there interfering.

In short, is there an elegant way to deal with it, or is a brute force kind of thing, just make it happen? In a way, I think I've been spoiled by starting with Lang and Maekawa in that all of their models seem to have a very clean progression with adequate markers and organization of the paper. Montroll, in these early books, doesn't seem to use the paper well and requires a lot of judgment folds as opposed to markered folds.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

[InsomniacFolder]

I shall bring the book in tomorrow and try to help.