Terminology - Squash Fold

Everyone has done a Squash Fold before, we just never knew it was called a Squash Fold. ^^

A Squash Fold consists of two parts, i.e. open up a fold and then press and flatten to form a fold.

There are many different type of Squash Fold, but they possess the same approach - open and flatten.

To make a flower ball, we will be doing a lot of Squash Fold, both in making the Square Base and the Fruit Base.

Below is the example of a Squash Fold applied on a Square Base and Fruit Base:

Step 1:  Start of by folding a square paper diagonally to form a large triangle, then bring the flap to the left to produce the above pic.

Step 2:  Fold the upper half flap (bringing it to the right) to form a smaller triangle (corner meets corner).  It's the crease that we are after.  When folded neatly, the crease will help to paper to fall into place on the next step.  Pry open the paper where the arrow is pointed to get the below pic.

Step 3:  This is the "open" part of a Squash fold.

Step 4:  This is the "flatten" part of a Squash fold.

Step 1 to 4 are the example of Squash fold on a Square base.  Below is the example of Squash fold on a Fruit base.

Pic 1:  Squash fold on a Fruit base.

There we go, Squash fold.  Easy as.  ^^  Drop me a line or two if it gets confusing.