I had been looking around at people selling folded cranes for a while and I thought why not make cranes out of fabric? Wouldn't it last longer? So I did some experimenting in my room with this fabric. I had heard of a way of stiffening fabric with sugar water so I tried ironing the fabric with sugar water and it worked.
Mom was probably really worried about her iron and for good reason. Making the cranes is not only a bit annoying, it also makes a mess of the iron. After a while you get this over cooked brown sugar water dripping from the holes in the bottom of the iron. On top of that to make the cranes you have to iron the fabric every time you make a fold in your crane and sometime it seems like the crane just doesn't want to stiffen. This usually happens to the tail and the head of the crane.
After working on the cranes in my room for a while my room starts to get the humid sweet smell. I'm not sure if I hate the smell, it's just different.
Anyways I made a bunch of these and I thought they are really pretty. I was trying to sell them on my Etsy shop but while they get a bit of attention they haven't sold much. Is it just because they don't have a practical function or is there something else wrong with them? I'm not really sure but for now I'll just leave them up since people do like the looks of them. I'm also selling mini paper cranes in lots of 25.
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