How to make a label for a quilt?

[dpaulson512]

I would like to add a little something to the backs of my quilt, using my sewing machine's basic embroidery font...what "type" of fabric do I use to make a label?

Thanks so much!

Dawn

[Sandy Navas]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

Dawn, I have used the same muslin that I've used on the back of one quilt, a contrasting fabric from another, some of the same fabric used in the quilt for another - I'd just use cotton. I put interfacing on the back and then when the embroidery is done I sandwich a like piece on the back and stitch them together so the back of the embroidery is inside. I sew one edge of the tag/label into the binding when I first put it on, making certain the label goes in the lower right hand corner once the quilt is on the bed.

[Mimis-quilts]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

Sandy, who has time for housework??? I love your quote!!!!!
"I hate housework! You make the beds, do the dishes and six months later you have to do it all over again!!"

[meemeecyn]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

Thanks again for the chuckle, Sandy! Dawn, I usually use muslin for the signature label, but always write it with a pigma pen. Maybe someday I'll get a machine that does embroidery!

[tamsterg7]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

I do something similar to what Sandy so eloquently outlined.

Sandy - is it a rule to put them in the RH corner? I'm a lefty and always seem to put it in the LH corner!

[janluna]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

I think you can put a label anyplace you want. I found a yard of labels from a quilt shop. They come 40 to a yard. You just cut out the label you want,write with a pigma pen or embroider on it and put it on your quilt. I usually put it on the back of the quilt on one of the lower corners. Have fun with it. Muslin works great too. Make your own. Hugs, Jan

[Sandy Navas]

Re: How to make a label for a quilt?

I do something similar to what Sandy so eloquently outlined.

Sandy - is it a rule to put them in the RH corner? I'm a lefty and always seem to put it in the LH corner!

Don't you remember the #1 quilter's rule? THERE ARE NO QUILTING POLICE. I'm left handed, too, but every quilt I ever had that was labeled I found in the lower right-hand corner . . . so that's just where I put mine.