Though cranes, in general, have a large cultural significance in Japan, I decided to stick with a minimalistic design to reflect my history with paper cranes. This meant that essentially, I would be stitching a tangram. Recognizing that I wanted to perfect a procedure/technique to stitch accurately and neatly, I decided to work with a smaller image 3x4 inches.

To differentiate the fold depth and size, I used three colors of embroidery floss: dark navy blue, cornflower, and teal (coincidentally, the color of the ovarian cancer ribbon). I found an image of a minimalistic crane online. 

Then, I cut out the crane template and briefly sketched the grain direction of stitches for each tangram section; this was to diversify the direction of the thread, and make the "folds" of the crane more apparent to the viewer's eye. I also drew approximate locations of where I would like the red threads to "hang" on the crane.