Labeling a quilt?

Reply Subscribe

Page 2 of 2

Thread Tools

11-07-2011, 09:31 AM

#11

SUZAG

Senior Member

Join Date: Jul 2011

Location: Fowlerville, MI

Posts: 686

Quote:

Originally Posted by nabobw

You should always put a label on your quilts. That is what I was told when I started to quilt. I put the name of the quilt the date usually the year it was quilted and if it is for a person I put quilted for so and so by my name. I then hand sew it on the back after it has been quilted. I have a embroidery machine and do it on that but some use the computer to print a label and some just use a pen and write it out or hand embroider it.

I am so sick of my first quilt that I have decided not to label it so nobody remembers me for that! I will make another one for my DGD when she gets a big girl bed. I was given flannel (before I had any stash) and made do with what I was given. I wasn't sure if she was going to be a boy or girl so it's pretty generic. Now, I want girly for her...LOL I found flannel kind of hard to work with also. Maybe just because it was my first time ever doing anything like a quilt before. Now I am hooked and know a lot of stuff I should have known making the stupid thing...LOL Thank you Quilting Board!

11-07-2011, 02:05 PM

#12

Keep Them In Stitches

Senior Member

Join Date: May 2011

Location: No. California. The foothills of the Sierras.

Posts: 796

I have yet to label mine but will start doing it. Thanks for the info.

11-07-2011, 04:56 PM

#13

117becca

Super Member

Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: dayton OH

Posts: 1,911

I hand write a label for the back. I have come across some labels and sometimes i've made my own out of fabric. I do try to put as much details as possible - dates, relationships about the quilt. After I'm dead and gone, I want the quilt to be able to tell it's story.

11-07-2011, 05:44 PM

#14

Senior Member

Join Date: Apr 2011

Location: Pennsylvania

Posts: 595

I first sign the quilt itself with a pigma pen. My name, quilted by, my town, and date, just in case the label comes off. Then I make a label. I put who the quilt is for and the occasion. then I put my name, person who quilted it, my town and date. I hand sew the label on.