Janie Q

I like to design my own quilts and they always get named for design, like garden path, over easy, spring fling etc. But when I make a quilt for a specific person it becomes Sharons garden, Ryans racetrack, Aunt Elsies Ocean View. After reading here I think I'll try to be a little more creative.

anniec55

Yep! I do, always put a label with a date and my name too! Was always taught if you make something you should be proud enough to put your name on it, I also paint so you always sign your paintings too!

grandma Janice

I give the name of the quilt pattern and I also embroidered a Bible verse on all the ones I have given to my family. If I have designed it myself I will name it.

gingerella

I do name some of mine as I've noted earlier. But not all.
Very often, while making a new quilt top from a pattern, I will use the exact (as exact as I can make it) colors and if possible even the name of the manufacturer of the fabric. After all, the picture is most likely the thing about the pattern that caught my eye. And if I do, I have very often used the name that the designer has given the pattern.

I find that the quilts I like the most and would be the hardest to part with however, are mostly unnamed ones. Sometimes I think it's because I'm not quite finished with them in some way. As I look at them, I remember that they were all a real intellectual challenge as well as a sewing challenge. (I don't know if that makes any sense to anyone.)

But if I make a scrappy quilt top, using more or less standard blocks, and my own color combinations, I usually come up with a name for it in my head while I am working on it. The name will sort of come to me while I'm busy, as I think about the quilt itself.

Quilting Nonnie

I name my quilts too. I made a blue batik quilt for my son. He has always liked batik; he also plays the piano. The quilt name: Paul Plays the Blues.

Several of my quilts don't have labels. The ones I give away always have labels; the ones I've kept for myself do not. I also have inherited all my aunt's lovely totally hand made quilts. She never labeled them! :-( I wish she had...I've been taking them, a few at a time, to an appraiser. The only quilts that I know the dates on are the ones she gave me. It would have been so nice to have the dates and the reason for making the quilts. She also never took pictures of her quilts...and she made hundreds.

My on-going project is making labels for my quilts and also for my aunt's. At least they will have her name and where she lived in case they sometime pass to someone's hand that wasn't related to her!

I also keep a provenance on all my quilts with pictures, size, date started, date finished, the story behind and the making of the quilt with picture. I was lucky enough to decide to do this early on in my quilting, so that I have all of them recorded.

Hand Quilter

I put a square on the back of my quilts, with my name, date, the occasion or to the person if for a gift. Always use with a marker that will not wash away or make with your machine. Later on, someone may have it and want to know who made it, etc. Hand Quilter

rejenea

I name mine for the people I make them for. All 2 of them. lol

gingerella

OOOPPPSSS... I misunderstood you. I call that my label. Yes, I put "the title" of the quilt on it if it has been 'entitled', and my name, geographical place it was made, and year. If it is for a special occasion, I will note that as well. I usually embroider my labels - especially the ones for special occasions. For wedding gifts I will use something like wedding bells on it.

But I also use permanent markers to do the labeling, and sometimes, the pertinent information is hidden on the front.

RoxanneS

I HAVE to name my quilts. so when I speak to my friends about them...they Know of which one I am talking..........its progress, or who it goes to...and where it is go to.....to a friend or sold. I also have an artist friend who is more than willing to help me name a quilt while I am working on it. If the name doesn't go on the quilt...it is in my quilt diary, the photo, the date of start, the date of finish, and who has the quilt (at least((originally)).

tooMuchFabric

Yes, I do. Most times the quilt just natcherly tells you its name - like one mini I made, Churndash blocks in a busy Huckleberry background - named it "Lost My Churndashes in the Huckleberries."