Origami Cranes
When working on my journal quilt for this year (which I can’t share until Festival opens at the end of this month), I wanted to try thermofax screens. While making some practice passes with the paint and screen, I made some extra cranes, which I have worked into these two pieces, Cloud Crane and Flying Crane.
This first one is Cloud Crane, the larger of the two pieces (and alas, the piece of paper with the exact measurements has gone walkabout; I think it is 13×16), is a quilted piece stitched to commercial batik over stretcher bars. The quiltlet is made of a single piece of cloth on which I screened both the origami crane (drawn by me, converted into a thermofax screen, then printed) and the background (which is actually a design made using a small white onion cut vertically as my “stamp”). It is quilted with gold metallic thread and a very fine, subtle polyester for the background. A slender gold yarn is couched to the edge of the quiltlet.
Flying Crane is a single golden crane screened onto my hand-dyed fabric, quilted, edged in a satin stitch of gold metallic thread and mounted on a coordinating hand-dyed fabric (also made by me). This piece is overall 8×10 inches, with the crane quiltlet about 4×6 inches.
Here’s a detail photo:
The Flying Crane is $65, the Cloud Crane is $135; shipping is additional and depends on your location.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Nice! The crane has some good memories for me. First, we had a Korean foreign exchange student who would make origami cranes, some really tiny. And when we visited Korea, I knew that the crane was a symbol of the country and of peace, so I made a wall hanging commemorating the visit as a gift. It contained a paper pieced crane and a paper pieced loon, our state bird.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:37 am
So lovely. My goodness, is that a metallic satin stitched edge? I can sometimes quilt with finicky metallic thread, but satin stitch? I wouldn’t dare.