The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

After an ambitious tutorial last week today’s tutorial is something relaxing and easy to do of a summer’s afternoon (it’s always a bonus when you can make something crafty at the same time as drinking Pimm’s in the park). You can use these flowers as a decorative garland, to decorate a table, or even to adorn cakes.

For this pretty origami flower garland, you will need:

Small squares of thin/origami paper (five for each flower you want to make – so I started with 25)
Gue
Thread
Needle

Now remember, like with any origami project, it’s key to take care to make sure the folds line up neatly as you go along, or gradually the whole flower will end up warped. So maybe don’t have too much of that Pimm’s before you start! Also, if you are cutting your squares from larger sheets of paper, it’s crucial that all the edges really are identical lengths.

Step 1 Fold your square in half diagonally into a triangle

Step 2 With the long edge of the triangle as the base, fold the left and right points up to the top point of the triangle.

Step 3 Carefully flatten out these little triangles into kite shapes.

Step 4 Fold the top of the kite down so it forms a triangle.

Repeat on the other side.

Step 5 Now fold both the kites down the middle so the flap you made in step 4 is hidden inside.

Step 6 Glue the edges together to make a petal shape.

While the glue is drying, repeat steps 1 – 6 until you have five petals.

Step 7 When all the glue is dry, carefully stick the five petals together into a flower.

Step 8 Repeat steps 1-7 for each flower

Step 9 Use a needle and thread to string together the flowers, attaching each one by the top of one of the petals

Step 10 All that’s left to do now is hang them up. Cat x