In addition to folding paper cranes, I’ve also been making fabric ones. These take much more time and concentration and can fill the better part of a day. While my goal for the paper cranes is at least one per day, my goal for these is less definitive. They are easily done when I need something to kick start me. Something for when my brain is saying “Go do something productive” and my body is saying “It’s just easier to sit and watch TV.” I’ve been working on them for about 3 weeks and so far have 16 done. They are a little bit like potato chips; you can’t do just one. They also are typically the lead in to being productive for the rest of the day. (Though there’s not much of the day left when you don’t start crane-sewing until 8 at night). At the end, I will put them together into a quilt. You need 24 cranes for a lap quilt; you need almost 50 for a queen sized quilt. I certainly hope that we don’t get that far. I’m not sure, as of yet, how we will know we are at the end. Is it when all the shops reopen? Is it when I finally get to travel to Colorado to see my grandkids? Is it when we have a vaccine? How big will this quilt be?

For the sewing-geeks among you. The foundation paper pattern is from Flying Parrot. The background fabric is Jinny Beyer’s black eyelash and the cranes themselves are being made from a fat quarter stack of Alison Glass fabrics. I love Alison Glass. Her color sense has forced me out of my more traditional and Williamsburg color palette into something vibrant and alive.