The label post got me thinking, does anyone else sign their quilts? A lady at a quilt group I went to signed all hers with a clover (someone else she knew signed hers) and I thought it was a great idea. Each one I make has a small spiral quilted into the bottom right hand corner. DH came up with the symbol b/c he said that oftentimes when our lives are spiraling out of control, it's nice to just curl up under a quilt to pray/think/cry. I didn't know if it was a common thing to do or not.

yes, my sister in law uses a star somewhere on the quilt. She challenges giftees to find it!

I have only done a few wall hangings & two quilts but on the back of each square I date and sign it but also photograph them. I date and sign the whole top when finished but never thought to sign the outside...hmmm.

I embroider(by machine)a frame & info in the frame, right on the border, before layering/quilting. My "frame" is a rose vine/thorns. I always place it at the bottom right corner.

I've never thought of that but it is a kewl idea, in addition to a regular lable. kinda of a secret trademark

It would help identify your quilt in case of theft.

Always...even if it is just an initial.

I have a couple little embroidered pictures I use, then I put my initials under it.

Excellent idea!!! I may have to work on a cute little "something" to make my quilts "mine." Thanks for the great idea! I DO put labels on (using computer printable fabric, so it can be read), but never thought to have a small design just to signify that it's mine. Super!!

I always quilt my initials and the year in the bottom left corner. The year is very helpful for me... I tend to forget when I made the quilt!

yes,always.

Sometimes, just for fun, when I make a blouse or Tshirt, I'll
embroidery my full, legal maiden name on it in pictures.

A flower...a bovine..a bird in flight

And remember that way back in the 1930s a lot of advertising was going on in the dairy business.

Libby Leham told us about this in the 90's I haven't done it, but she does on every quilt. She stitches her name just like an oil artist lower rt. corner.

I put my initials and the year or "Grandma" and the year inside a heart in a corner.

I sign all mine with a Peace Sign, sometimes hidden, but always there.

What a great idea! Thank you for bringing this up :D
I will have to think of something to start adding to mine :D:D:D

My initials in the shape of a coyote are on almost all of mine. Just the very early ones don't have it. Thus my 'handle' is Coyote Quilts.....

yes I do, I want to leave behind something that each person i have given a quilt to will remember it was made special for them by me, especially the grandkids!

I have never put anything on any of mine..this makes me think I should be doing something...I know I always put my initials and the year on the cross stitch ones that are framed...I take a picture of every quilt and have them in an album.....that way, even tho the quilt has been given away, I have a record and can go back and look and decide if I want to use that pattern again.

In the beginning of quilting, I didn't think signing was important. When I thought about how they will be handed down in the family, I got it. I now sign all my quilts.

I quilt my initials into the quilt whenever I remember to do it.

I stitch MOMMM discretely & usually put a label on the back.

I agree!! I stitch out a label on my machine ie.Quilt Title, who its for, the occasion and date, but always sign my name in pigma pen

always

Never and I don't even like to put a label on them, I think they should remember who gave it to them. For a dear Sister Friend I did make a great label using cross stitch fabric and letters. She bought me some smaller ones to sew on, I don't put them on everyone.

I always put my name on a quilt, on a quilt label and allso the date I made it.at the back on the left hand corner.

I sign, I can't deal with a label too, after all that sewing. I did do labels for some but I sign my artwork so I got the idea of why not?

I use a very small gold heart also I make cute labels for my quilts.

i try to sign all of mine.i take pictures this last 15 yrs or so.and keep a journal of sorts.'i also put a mistake in each one.sometimes a block inside out-it's never noticable.sometimes a block out of place.when i tell people-and i dont tell everyone-that there's a mistake in their quilt-they spend hours searching for it!!:)
the idea came to me because the quilt is handmade and nothing should be perfect-that's god's job!:)

I wish some of these responses would have posted photos of how they sign or the labels they make. I need visual ideas.

Artists always sign their work. We should too.

On my quilts, there is always something out of the norm. Like a star, one arm facing the wrong way; a small piece of fabric that totall does not belong - things like that. I also put a label on them.

I have started to put the labels on the hanging sleeve by machine before stitching the sleeve into the binding. Faster and less handwork. Probably should sign the front......

I always hand stitch a small red heart shaped yo-yo with a heart shaped button on one corner of my quilts (except baby quilts no buttons there). I hope that this tells the receiver of the quilt that it is made with love.

I like to embroidery a label with my name, the date, city and state, and the name for whom it was made directly on the backing fabric before the quilt is quilted. Then I put the sandwich together and quilt right over the label. I figure that way the label can't be removed and it should last as long as the quilt is around.

What a great idea!

I sew a tiny heart on all my quilts, hangings, etc...

Mine started when a machine quilter happened to take a snipe out of the edge of one of my quilts when quilting it for me.I never mentioned it to her but was heart sick.

It was a 50th anniversary gift so I found a little heart button and just sewed in over the snipe and on one was wiser. I thought it quite appropriate for that occasion and since my B-day in 2/14, the heart button has become my logo.

And lately, it is not so easy finding tiny heart buttons without the shaft on them.....I use the flat ones with the two holes......
and that's how my logo came to be.

In this day and age, provenance is very important. Not only do I have a label, but sometimes I will put on a signature square, which consists of who it goes to, who made it, date and city and state and most importantly the year.

I also write a book to go with each quilt that I give to someone. That is provenance proof-positive.

People like to know the history of things, why that block is there, why you used that particular design, why you used that particular fabric, what was going on that day, what the weather was like, what the headlines were, little unimportant things that may not be important to someone, but are important to you and you would like to pass that along.

My mother told me yesterday that my grandfather could play the doodlesack (accordian) only when he had a few under his belt. I would love to tell you the song that he sang, but Mom can remember only two lines, and it just isn't proper! Mom is 94 and I never knew that about Grandpa before.......not that he drank, because I knew he did (not to excess), but that he could play the doodlesack. It was funny because I borrowed a friend's accordian and her book and learned how to play it without any lessons. Either did my grandfather - only difference being he had to be snockered, which going on to another story was being 1/2 snockered on Christmas Eve one year and I played Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring on the organ for the Christmas service without a mistake - one and only time. I must have part of my grandfather in me and just found out. Those are the kind of stories I would put in the book that I write for the quilt if I am giving it to a member of the family - Sorry for the ramble! Edie

This is great. I used to embroider my name, date, etc. But I really love this idea. Now to come up with an idea for myself. Thanks

I did not used to but have recently started putting a small heart on the back of mine.