Thursday, February 2, 2012

Paper piecing Crane

Having folded alot of paper origami crane, I have been wanting to try folding it on fabric.  It didn't turn out so well cos fabric is soft.  I tried stabilitizing it with fusible and it worked better but I still didn't quite like the final result.  Then I saw a paper pieced crane quilt block somewhere online sometime ago.  I tried locating the source for the designer so I could buy the pattern to no result.

Finally, I gave in and started creating my own pattern.  I could have done that earlier before wasting so many hours trying to locate the source online but I was just lazy.... :)

It took quite a few hours, trial and error here and there and finally I think, I got it.  Now, I have to figure out what I want to do with it.  Maybe a coaster, an ornament or I could enlarge the pattern and make more blocks into a full quilt.

Ironically, the fabics I used were bought from local quilt shops here but the prints resemble the 'sakura flower'.  I had wanted to dig into my stash bought from Japan but didn't get a chance to so ......yet.

1 comment:

Marie Cloutier said...

that's great! I've been trying to find that pattern, too. do you sell yours? if you do, i would love it if you sent me an email to bibliophile at bostonbibliophile.com. thank you & i love it!