 How to make a standard origami rose paper flower 
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25.
Pull and rotate it (IV quadrant) at 90 degrees so that the x-axis
align exactly with the y-axis |
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25A.
If you are succesful, then you will have a valley fold shown on the left. Repeat the step #25 for all four corners. |
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25B.
(To those who are having a problem on the step #25)
If you are puzzled at the step #25, I found a easier way to solve this problem. On the back of the paper, draw four blue lines as shown on the left picture. Then execute mountain-fold to all blue lines.
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25C.
After you complete mountain-folding on four blue lines, you will get it exactly like the one shown on the left. This is the same picture shown on the step #28. By studying this mountain-folding of four blue-lines, you can figure it out what the alignment of the x and y-axes really means.
If you are still not satisfied from my explanation, there is one final solution. Nowdays, there are many instructional video for helping you folding a standard rose flower. Two I can find from Google search are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E72E6rqCjRU
Watch carefully on 3:30 for the step 25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnhMl85dq4.
This video follows our instruction up to the step #39.
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26.
If you follow the step #25 correctly, then this is the
same picture with a different camera angle. That is you will have
three green lines as shown in the left picture.
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Child Reading the Almanach
The child reads the almanac by her basket of eggs.
Apart from Saints and weather forecasts,
she contemplates the beautiful signs of the heavens:
Goat, Bull, Ram, Fish, et cetera.
And so she believes, this little peasant girl,
that above her, among the constellations,
there are markets like these with donkeys,
bulls, rams, goats and fish.
She must be studying the market of Heaven
and when the page turns to the sign of the Scales
concluding that in Heaven, like the grocery store,
they weigh coffee, salt and consciences.
Poem by Francis Jammes
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