Labeling your work
#51
Originally Posted by amma
I am trying to label all of mine now... I tend to forget :roll: :oops: :lol:
#53
I label all my quilts. At first I used a 'permanent marker', even the sharpie and pigma pens, but over time with laundering they become too light or wash out. So now I use the font on my sewing machine and stitch my labels onto a piece of lighter fabric and fuse it to the backing, then quilt over it when quilting the quilt. It aint gonna come off.
When I first learned to quilt I was told it was important to put labels on all quilts, even for grandkids etc, cuz they could be of historical (don't laugh) interest or when someone in the future is doing family genealogy. We don't think our quilts will last that long, but do we really know? Imagine 100 years from now, someone opens an old trunk and finds your quilt! If no label, no 'history'.
People find quilts at thrift shops, estate sales, family trunks etc all the time and wonder, ... who, when, where?
Yes, put labels on your quilts!
warm quilt hugs, sue in CA
When I first learned to quilt I was told it was important to put labels on all quilts, even for grandkids etc, cuz they could be of historical (don't laugh) interest or when someone in the future is doing family genealogy. We don't think our quilts will last that long, but do we really know? Imagine 100 years from now, someone opens an old trunk and finds your quilt! If no label, no 'history'.
People find quilts at thrift shops, estate sales, family trunks etc all the time and wonder, ... who, when, where?
Yes, put labels on your quilts!
warm quilt hugs, sue in CA
#54
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Buena Park, CA
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I usually print a label with all the pretenant infor on my computer. I iron on freezer paper just before I push the button to print and then I piece the label into the quilt back. If I finish a quilt it is a big deal and I want people to know who did it and if it is for something special I want that known too.
#56
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lake Villa, Illinois
Posts: 278
I don't consider a piece finished unless it is labeled and photographed and then put in my journal of quilts. Too many wonderful quilts have been made throughout the years without valuable information to go along with them. I have heard many collectors and appraisers speak and emphasize how important that bit of info is.
#57
I press a piece of fabric to freezer paper, put it in the printer and make a lable. then applique it to the bottomright corner on the back of all but the baby quilts that I expect to be used until they are worn out
#58
I always label my quilts with Quilt Name___ For ___ Year___
MY name___My Address. My exceptions are when I do a Church raffle Quilt which I Name___, Date___, the Church's Name on it. I also include a card with quilt care and on the back of the card I put my name and year.
MY name___My Address. My exceptions are when I do a Church raffle Quilt which I Name___, Date___, the Church's Name on it. I also include a card with quilt care and on the back of the card I put my name and year.
#59
Originally Posted by Parrothead
Please label. I so wish my Grandmothers had done so. I have 20+ vintage quilts made by my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother and I don't know which one made what or what year they were made.
I am thinking of making labels for my 5 with my name, inherited from GM, possibly made by GGM. You could do something similar with your 20.
I do label mine, but now am thinking of embroidering my name & year along the edge somewhere. I have a short name!
#60
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Fleming Island, FL
Posts: 135
I too label my quilts; I embroider a label with name of recipient, my name, date, name of quilt. I also add some embroidery designs in keeping with the quilt design. My giftees like the label as well as the quilt. They always can't wait to see their label.
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