What's On Your Workdesk this 477th Wednesday: a quiltlet by any other name is still . . .

I hope Julia at Stamping Ground, our fearless leader of all things desks, isn't too upset, but so many of you wanted to see the quiltlet I was making (and reworking), I simply had to take lots of photos.  The recipient has now received it, and I can show it.

This is the front. It went together rather semi-easily, although I only had a small piece of the Oriental fabric.

I'm not a stamper, and it took three tries to get the first stamp acceptable.  Although I told the recipient I stamped on the same fabric as the back, I actually stamped these on rust dyed fabric.

The lace is hand dyed turmeric.  My friend had just returned from a school trip to Japan and on one of her blog posts, she used some oriental coins.  I remembered I had two, also, and to balance it out, I used a glass oriental bead that reminded me of bamboo.

With such a small amount of lovely oriental fabric, I didn't want to cover the images.  That's why I pieced the fabrics together.  Although the front is a bit disjointed, I was eventually happy with it.

I wanted to send this piece first class, so instead of adding a wooden or heavy cardboard piece to keep the top flat and the quiltlet from buckling, I added two tabs on which the quiltlet can be hung.

This is the nightmare side.  I ripped out and retried, ripped out and retried, and finally realized no matter what I did, my sewing skills were simply not up to par.  Although the third time was not a charm, it was as good as the back was going to get.

This fabric reminded me of Chinese/oriental lanterns.  The black and gray words are from a book on Japan. Paper and fabric constituted the back of this piece.

I had a tiny piece of the front Geisha girl fabric left over and placed it somewhere that I would know where it was.  When I went to use it, I couldn't find it.  I didn't give up looking even after the two sides were in place.  That's why the red burlap looks unfinished.

This is more paper from the book on Japan I used.

I can truthfully say this is the first time I've been pleased with the "handmade by" stamp with Bleubeard's and my signatures.

Now most people would try to hide their mistakes, but there was simply no way to hide this ugly shift in the fabric and foamy batting.  BTW, that is some of my eco-dyed fabric that I had originally intended to overdye.  When I realized I needed a whole cloth for the back, I didn't have time to redye it.

Because I had no idea when my friend would receive her gift,

here is the obligatory rocking horse most of you really came to see.  It's wind chimes and I love it. It was a Christmas gift from my shopaholic friend Kathy who is holding it.  Of course, I'm sure you can see a few more in the background, too.

My Wednesday posts will be on hiatus until September, so this will be my final WOYWW post until then.  I'll see you back here at my desk the first week in September.   Thanks for visiting, and if you are coming from Julia's please leave your number.  However, I have encountered a couple of deskers who are only on Instagram, of which I'm not a member.  I'll visit, but can't leave comments.