I tell myself daily how lucky I am to have not caught Covid and to have discovered worthwhile things to do that helped me process the unprecedented trauma and loss the world is suffering. One of these things was to make a series of pandemic quilts. I felt a little lighter once the zoonotic disease quilt, the Egyptian coffin quilt and the 10-Plagues quilt were finished and felt ready to move on to lighter territory.

My husband and I live in New York and at the beginning of the pandemic our minds often wandered to foreign places we had visited in the past, places that Covid made off-limits. With all the museums and restaurants closed, New York suddenly seemed dull. Travel-starved and antsy, we went to great lengths to discover nature in New York. Our favorite places became Alley Pond Park and Vanderbilt Motor Parkway in Queens, Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where we saw hawks, bunnies and even parrots! Who would have thought that these green spaces are teeming with so many creatures!

I have become passionate about working with reclaimed denim, and the old piece of plaid cotton that my neighbor gave me lent itself to become a skyscraper through whose windows you could see my favorite NYC creatures. (Well, ok, mosquitoes and roaches I detest, but I’m sure they moved to the city for the same reasons I did.)

The NYC Wildlife Quilt measures 50x42 inches and would make for a great wall hanging or blanket for a precocious New York baby. Its backing and batting are 100 percent cotton. It can be machine washed and line-dried. Email me for a price. sabineheinlein@gmail.com.