Originally Posted by Sewnoma

Funny thing is that I've bought stuff for labels - preprinted yardage, stencils, even bothered to do a custom Spoonflower design and got test prints done and they turned out just fine. I have Pigma pens and paint sticks and an embroidery machine so I have tons of options for labels right on hand. But like others have said, I think it feels like vanity to me, so I haven't actually used any of those things. Plus I'm never sure what to put on there...it just seems to go on and on and that seems weird to me too. My name, their name, the date, the location, the event, some slogan or poem... I don't know where to stop and it starts to feel more like a luggage tag than a label! Obviously I don't HAVE to put all that stuff on there, but just trying to figure out what to include and exclude feels tiresome to me so I just stop thinking about it and the quilt goes out unlabeled.

I don't usually sign my artwork either, though. And if I do, it's with a Sanskrit character that represents one of my middle names, not with words, and I try to hide it within the drawing/painting so it's only visible if you really look for it, or I'll put something on the back. Maybe I should start including that little symbol on my quilts instead; I could embroider or draw it somewhere subtle. Not that it'd be helpful to quilt historians, but I don't really think any of my quilts are going to be historically important.

Maybe it's simply that I quilt for fun, and labels just aren't fun for me so I skip that part.