Originally Posted by wildyard
Originally Posted by wraez
I totally agree with you, we MUST label our quilts! With FULL names, not just 'to Eric from gramma' etc. I probably don't put enough info on mine either but I always put the full name of the recipient, my full name as Gramma Sue Balchak, and then my city, state, and date. Sometimes what the quilt is for ... b'day, welcome to the family, etc. Some people will put the name of the quilt pattern / block used and name of the designer if it applies. I think about doing it when it comes to making my label I forget that part.
A label could / should be like a story, it will have more meaning and if the quilt lasts a long time, it might end up in a museum.
How on earth does one fit all that information on a label? I don't have the money or equipment to make fancy labels like that, and I don't find writing on fabric with those fabric pens very easy nor very clear and neat.
That isn't a 'fancy label' ... use muslin that has been stabilized with freezer paper ironed onto it, write it up on your computer and print it off. You can tell in your computer how big the 'label' should be or just print it on a piece of muslin a bit smaller than 8.5 x 11 and trim what isn't needed. I then press heatNbond lite, or any fusible web to the back of the label ... and iron it onto the backing . This heat sets the ink. Then I stitch down the edge of the label and it all gets quilted down securely.
Not fancy. Not difficult, not expensive. If you don't have a printer, you probably have a friend or family who does and will let you make it at their house.