Well you learn from your mistakes...

So I started with the project today. The paper that I started with was orange with peach on the back, I'll use the peach from the other pack.

I started by folding one crane from start to finish. Here it is:

After that I stated on a production line, folding a few steps in all the sheets, that way I was doing the same fold over and over again:

 I folded all the cranes using this production method. I then went to get the original crane (I had moved rooms) and this is when I realised that I had made a mistake. I fixed one crane at this point and left the others for later.

 The mistake I had made? I missed out one set of instructions which was folding the edges into the centre a second time. I just out the folded the head and tail without the extra four folds that were needed, making the cranes bigger than they should have been.

 Well I know one thing, I have definitely learned from my mistake and I won't be making it again. Here are my first 20 cranes. The quality varies, some are better than others but I've still got lots of practice to come. You can puff out the body and fold the wings to finish the crane (like the one below, right) but I have decided to keep keep the wings up and keep them flat for better storage.

20 down just 9980 to go.