Quilt Labels
07-08-2010, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by mms61371
I use a embroidered quilt label. It usually goes in the right bottom corner sometimes the left.
07-09-2010, 04:42 AM
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I write on my tags with pigma pen. I find that you must iron over the writing or it will run. Made a baby quilt, for a nephew in Switzerland. After many washings I asked how the writing held up. Mom said it didn't even fade.
07-09-2010, 09:20 AM
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can you tell me the product you use to pretreat the fabric for the printer...mine keeps washing out and it breaks my heart, after all that work, I heard of Bubble something but don't know where to order it from...thank you
07-09-2010, 11:02 AM
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WEDDING QUILTS - I try to use the same font as the wedding invitation to make my label. I print a label using my computer - then I use Pigma pens & my version of a light box to trace it in the CENTER of the backing. I iron over the label to set the ink. .I plan ahead when I make the backing so that I have a light center in the backing.
MY VERSION OF A LIGHT BOX: I have a sewing table with a recessed 'hole' for my sewing machine. The machine support can be dropped out of the way. I put a piece of glass across the top and a lamp on the floor below. Voila, light box. I tape the printed paper label to the glass, so I only have one thing = the backing = to control while I'm tracing the label.
OTHER QUILTS. I use the same light box, but I usually put the label in the bottom RIGHT corner. Of course, it all depends on where the backing is light enough to use the pens - I have to think ahead when I'm planning the backing. Now that I have an embroidery machine, I'm going to try embroidering labels. Pigma pens are faster, though! And I'm usually doing the label at the last minute LOL
MY VERSION OF A LIGHT BOX: I have a sewing table with a recessed 'hole' for my sewing machine. The machine support can be dropped out of the way. I put a piece of glass across the top and a lamp on the floor below. Voila, light box. I tape the printed paper label to the glass, so I only have one thing = the backing = to control while I'm tracing the label.
OTHER QUILTS. I use the same light box, but I usually put the label in the bottom RIGHT corner. Of course, it all depends on where the backing is light enough to use the pens - I have to think ahead when I'm planning the backing. Now that I have an embroidery machine, I'm going to try embroidering labels. Pigma pens are faster, though! And I'm usually doing the label at the last minute LOL
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