Origami Heart by Alex Yue

Want to fold origami hearts while we pine for Will and Hannibal? For 22 months?

Here's a step-by-step How-to by Alex Yue, the origami master who folded our paper hearts for Hannibal in Season 3.

It is an adaptation of the classic ball origami fold.

fold paper corner to corner and in half side-to-side and up-and-down to score paper

fold down the little triangle on both left and right sides so it looks like this:

Pick up the tips of the little triangles you just folded 

and flip/slide them down into the pockets of the adjoining triangles below to get this:

repeat on other side to get this:

Flip so open folds are at the top then lift and separate side to open a pocket

With your finger inside the pocket, push A counterclockwise and press C out as you push B under so that C will pop out to the position you see in the photo below. It's tricky, but don't give up. Just work gently to ease the paper into place. It wants to be a heart.

Now fold the outer corner under from D to E so it looks like the photo below. This is fantastic that you've made it this far. It's all easy-breezy from here.

Repeat on other side.

             

Now you just have to fold the big arteries, slide them into place and blow a little air into the opening at the top so the heart puffs out like a football. 

tuck the second artery in the same way as the first (aorta)

Then, insert a small straw at the top and gently blow it up like a balloon to get a full three dimensional heart shape. 

Send to Will.

This is the heart made by Alex Yue for Hannibal

Feb 28/16 Update: there's a Reddit on folding this heart:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HannibalTV/comments/47mr3f/hannibals_origami_heart/
I know some are having trouble with Step 10, but maybe someone on Reddit will post a helpful hint - or a video, even...so check it out.

Feb 14/17 Update: Take heart! Evan Carrington has made a VIDEO wherein he shows very clearly how to fold Alex's Hannibal Origami Heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-Mn3M52rc

For more really amazing origami check Alex's site: http://magicianofpaper.blogspot.ca/

All above photos by Alex Yue

If you find it all too left-brain, why not try folding the hearts I posted in my account of Episode 2

It's a simpler one you can fold and enclose a message, I made this one from a photocopy of a slice of meat. Find the instructions here:
(This site has some annoying pop-up ads but I guess that's Google doing what it does. The site has all kinds of heart origami to choose from so if you don't mind the ads, press on).

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-secret-heart.html