Thread: Labeling your quilts

Originally Posted by Cari-in-Oly

After one of my grandsons quilts was stolen, not only do I put a label on my quilts, I machine embroider the recipients' name somewhere on the inside of the binding. That way even if the label is removed it can still be proven who the quilt belongs to.

Cari

For the same reason, (a stolen quilt) I now put the label on before quilting, so it can't be removed without damaging the quilt. I do use my DSM to embroider them now that I have figured out how....lol! I put my name, date, and quilt title if any at the very least, the new owners name if a gift. (That way our decendants will know who made such a "primitive" quilt! Lol!)

I don't normally label my quilts. There were a few times it was necessary but not usually.

I have not labeled more than I've labeled. Two, special family quilts, I cross-stitched labels, another I did with my sewing machine. My kids fuss at me about this also, I've done some cross-stitch pieces that I didn't label, and they tell me I should.

I label all my quilts...large, small, gifts, swaps, keepers...all of them. I use Printed Treasures, the pretreated fabric (sew-in version) for ink jet printers. My labels include (as appropriate) the quilt title, who it's for, my name, the occasion, the date, and the location. If it was quilted by my longarmer (a friend), I add a separate label with her logo and info, too. For instance:



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It's relatively fast and easy to add a label and I do mine as the last, finishing touch. Make them as simple or as intricate as you want, or as the occasion merits, but please try to get in the habilt of doing it. Think about that child who will someday be handed a quilt by his mother and told, "They say this was made by your great-great-grandmother back at the beginning of this century, but no one knows for sure." Let them be sure!

Originally Posted by ghostrider

It's relatively fast and easy to add a label and I do mine as the last, finishing touch. Make them as simple or as intricate as you want, or as the occasion merits, but please try to get in the habilt of doing it. Think about that child who will someday be handed a quilt by his mother and told, "They say this was made by your great-great-grandmother back at the beginning of this century, but no one knows for sure." Let them be sure!

This is actually what prompted me to ask - my husband is on my case about labeling. And I blew him off until I thought about the quilts that we have around the house that my grandmother made (we know more about those because her daughters recognize some of the fabrics as dresses they wore and can approximate when they were made based on those), but my husband has some gorgeous ones that his great-great grandmother or great-grandmother made (or possibly some quilts were made by one and some by the other), but we know very little about the quilts, and I would love to have a label on them!

I mostly quilt for family or friends. I sign bj and the year on the back in a corner pretty small. They know who made it for them☺️☺️.

I do label every quilt I make. I make my labels using my embroidery machine and include at least the name of the person receiving the quilt, the date and my name. Sometimes I put more info if it's for a special event, etc. After quilting the quilt, I pin the label in the back bottom corner and sew it on when I sew the binding. I hand sew the other two sides of the label when I sew the back of the binding on. If I'm making the quilt for us to keep, I label it with at least the date and my name.

I label every quilt...who it's for, my name, city and date...also if I give it a name I write that on of course...