What to use for labeling individual pieces of fabric?

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05-03-2011, 08:24 AM

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cowgirlquilter

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Originally Posted by sewcrafty

What about individual baggies with sizes written on it and place all the same size together?

This works for me......

05-03-2011, 08:41 AM

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Nancy Ingham

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Originally Posted by dakotamaid

I use a safety pin and piece of paper:)

Yep, me too.... or if it is several small pieces I want to keep together, I use a zip lock baggie and write on the bag

Both of these!

I agree, both of these for me too!

05-03-2011, 09:27 AM

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mountainmammo

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Originally Posted by dakotamaid

I use a safety pin and piece of paper:)

Me too. I use the tiny post-it notes and safety pin them on the folded fabric. Sure saves time to know just how much is in the stack!

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05-03-2011, 09:57 AM

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fishnlady

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I wrapped my fabric around the plastic sign board pieces to go on the shelf and at the same time wrote on the board the dimensions of the fabric and any other info I thought might come in handy with a pencil. That way I can erase and reuse when the fabric is gone. Also If I use part of the fabric then I can write what is left.

05-03-2011, 11:47 AM

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krisgray

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Originally Posted by dakotamaid

I use a safety pin and piece of paper:)

Me too - pin in the selvage

05-03-2011, 01:37 PM

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writerwomen

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I'd rather just sit there at the machine pulling my hair out at 2:00 in the morning because I put the wrong piece in place and trimmed it to fit now I am short on the last piece.
Solution- make the project smaller. :)

05-03-2011, 01:57 PM

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Bzaney

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I either used a post it note and pin it to the fabric or I cut up an index card, use a hole punch to put two holes on top and then run a straight pin through the holes.

05-03-2011, 02:24 PM

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I use blank white mailing address labels and cut them to put on my material. They do not leave any sticky residue. They work great.

05-03-2011, 04:07 PM

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Airwick156

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Originally Posted by so-sew

Masking tape will leave a residue, but will those white little round labels used for pricing at thrift sales also leave a residue over time? I'm trying to mark on each piece of fabric its size, but not sure the best way of doing this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for all your insightful answers. :)

All of that fabric I just got this past week, EVERY SINGLE piece had a small peice of paper either stapled, or pinned on with those little straight pins or they had tags with strings that was pinned onto the fabric...ALL OF THEM were in the selvages and if there were no selveges, she had them pinned as close to the edge in a corner as she could get. I thought that was pretty cool.