if you do not put a label with your name on the quilt it remains anonymous. you may still want to put a label with the name of the quilt, laundry instructions and maybe the town you live in and the year. the families like seeing where the quilts come from. usually you do not know when a quilt is actually received by a child with the linus project. with the downy program you can register your quilt on line and you do find out when a child receives the quilt. I have given quite a few project linus quilts in the past few years and have been told about a few children who received one of mine (the person telling me the story did not know i was the one who made the quilt she was talking about