Do You Name Your Quilts?
 

I'm just finishing up a quilt top and getting ready to make the quilt "sandwich". Then I'll add a label. I make a custom one for each quilt. From the get-go I've called this one "The Bears" and I'll use their image as part of the label, which is how I started wondering if others name their quilts and give them some sort of individualized label?

"The Bears" label will have the title, the content, how to care for it, a date, a swatch of the main fabric, and my logo at the very bottom. While none of my labels look much alike, I do try to include similar information on each one. Hopefully I'll be ready to secure the quilt in the frame and start hand stitching by next week. (To me Solstice seems like an auspicious day to start!). And I've got the fabric for my next project already waiting on the corner of my sewing table. I call it "Wild Horses".

So how about the rest of you? Do you do anything similar? Something completely different? Do you finish one before you start another? I'd love to hear about it!

Rusty

I know I should label my quilts better than I do, but I don't typically make a label unless I know in advance who it is going to. A lot of what I do doesn't have a home when I start other than "not for me or anyone I know".

I do name my quilts, some have better names than others. Usually it is a working name like "Purple Quilt" but sometimes they turn into things like "Winter Dreams of Summer Skies"

I do include a letter that has things like washing care, or that it has been washed once between me finishing it and then giving it to the other person. I always like to wash first in case something happens, like just a couple of months ago I found a small flaw in the huge extra large backing after the wash. I ended up having to applique a little patch over the broken threads but I'm glad it happened on my watch and I had the skills and extra fabric to fix it.

From my years working with engineers they always wanted to know things like how many pieces -- I try and answer that!

Nope, nothing gets a name unless it will come when I call it.

I am in awe of your attention to labels. I know I should be doing the same. I started out with good intentions, but haven't labeled a quilt in years. (I'm also in awe that you quilt by hand. Mine go on a frame too, but with a 26" longarm attached to it.)

I start many quilts, but finish very few. I would love to be one who finishes one before starting another, but an inability to sit for very long makes finishing a quilt a real challenge, whereas machine piecing (sit/stand/sit/stand) is a perfect activity for my back.

I have named the quilts I have finished, on the first line of the label (which I sew on after quilting). I put the name (title), month/year it was pieced, the month/year it was quilted, whether it was hand or machine, the recipient and their city/state, my name and city/state, the name of the pattern and designer, and the fabric, if a particular fabric is featured. I make the label in case the quilt should be found sometime in the future, away from its home.

I use the quilt pattern as the name. That way if I ever want to look the pattern up again, I'll know where to start. I will create a "name" if I design the quilt. For instance, I just finished making a quilt with a large buffalo on it which I pieced and my mom's favorite buffalo is named Dunbar so that is what I'm naming my quilt.

Sometimes when I look at a finished quilt and it looks like it needs a name, I will name it according to the look, colors, etc.

Only a few. One was Worlds Collide with drunkards path blocks and the other was strip blocks with different size left over small orange triangles on opposite corners of blocks. that became Odd Orange. can't think of another right now.

Not usually but I did name one that I started the day William and Kate got married. I named it my William and Kate quilt haha.
I'm gifting it to my SIL because she saw a picture of it and loved it. I've enjoyed it and now have the pleasure of giving it to someone special who loves it too.
I try to do labels but usually only when I gift them to my family.

For me, making the quilt top is just an excuse, while the hand quilting to finish it is the real reason for the whole project.

:D

I'm with you.
DD names anything that makes noise: dogs, tractors, cars, blending machines. That way she knows who/which she's talking to.

Yes, I both label and name my quilts. Usually the name is just the name of the pattern, but if I have changed it up a bit then I create my own name. Labels also have my name, the date of completion, and a number. I have numbered my quilts ever since I began quilting in 1985. Charity quilts don't receive a label or a number, but anything that stays in the family does.

No I don't name my quilts or my sewing machines.

I buy printed labels with name and location that I sew into the bindings on the back side of my quilts. I often give away or try to sell my quilts and feel the recipient won't really care about or want an elaborate label. When I make something for a specific person, I do make a label with more info that I sew onto the back. But mostly, I don't name my quilts except in my mind (e.g., "the big block quilt," "Dear Jane," etc.) as I'm working on them.

I name every quilt.

I have named ever design that I completed. With this in mind, I have also taken a photo of these quilts and so I have a photo library of my collection. This collection helps when I am ready to start a new project. I have ones of my own to refer to not a website of another quilter. Who best to go to but yourself - since you are the one who had great ideas, made mistakes that can be avoided the next time around, and just enjoy the love and beauty you have given others through your craft of quilting.

Just to add a side note: I also name my cars!

I only name it as the name of recipient’s quilt in my journal. I don’t label. I just put my initials and the year it’s finished on the back, usually on the binding close to a corner.

I name all of my quilts. If it's a pattern, then the name is generally some play on the original pattern name. But if it's something that I designed, then there is always an original name as well. Sometimes the design comes first and the name evolves as the top gets pieced. But sometimes the name comes first, and I design the quilt around it. In fact, one quilt I named about two years ago and changed the design about six times. It is still not finished, but the name remains!

I put a label on every quilt, but I don't always put the name of the quilt on the label. I usually make baby quilts and the baby's name and birthdate and my initials go on the label..and sometimes a poem. For the quilts I do at guild workshops, I put a name on the label of the quilt pattern or a name I have chosen. One pattern was called Mountain Moon, and I named my quilt Colorful Slices. Once I made what I called a lazy label using the selvage from the panel. No 2 of my labels look alike.

No, I do not name my quilts. (Making up a fitting or clever name for the quilt.)

I do add a label to every one except those donated to organizations. They often prefer their own label that they add themselves noting the organization. My labels include "Made for __________ Made by ____ and Date of completion. Now and again, I will add the occasion (graduation, wedding, birth) and the name of the pattern if it is significant. My "Harriett's Journey" will get its name on the label but not those that are scrappy just to bust my stash. Currently, many patterns seem to be sampler quilts that are lovely revisits of traditional blocks in different combinations or collections or colors. But if I strike out on my own with a group of traditional blocks or a repeat of a block for the whole quilt.....no name, just fun for me.

Perhaps I should begin to include the pattern name on my quilts more often as a way of acknowledging the pattern designer.

I've never felt the need to label a quilt. I've never named them either

I’ve never named a quilt. But, I will wave goodbye with pride as it goes to a forever home

I usually do come up with a short name for my quilts. I don't follow a pattern too much just name them what they look like to me. Remember, I am a renegade quilter - pick blocks I like to make and put it together however works for me.

I think of them by a distinct name as I work on them, usually just something to do with the color or pattern or who it's for, such as the churn dash or the bird quilt or Lori's quilt. I make labels using my embroidery machine and often include an image or at least an embroidered border. If it's for a baby, it will have the name and birthdate of the child. If it's for an occasion, it will say something like "25th anniversary" and the couple's names and date, and in those cases, it will also say "Made with love by ...". I have never put a quilt's name on one. The name is just for me to distinguish it from some other work in progress when I'm typing with a quilt friend. I like to make quilts for Project Linus, and they (and some other charities) request that no labels be included.

I do not name all of my quilts and usually identify quilts by who I give them too. There are the rare times when I will give a quilt a name but those occasions are rare.

Yes and Yes
 

I label finished quilts …I name them after they are completed.

in the label is “Quilt name”
Made for ( some time the reason for making for the gift)
My full name
Date finished

some times it it has taken many years to compete, I even put date began and date finished.

but that is just me….. I am a “Leo”. Lol

I tend to name my quilts based on the block and the fabric used. Like the pink one in my avatar, I named it Butterfly Wings. I made it for one of my grand-daughters, who in her words, lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvves pink! The fabric is glitter butterflies in both a light purple on some blocks and pink on the other blocks. The darker/brighter pink is pink with tiny polka dots and is also the backing fabric.

This is my theory. We have a lot of cars. Vintage and specialty mostly. Someone asked me if I name my cars. I was like "Yeah, the Mustang, the Xrunner and the Corvette" lol

My husband did name his 34 coupe. The key tag says "Baby" :rolleyes:

I name mine and put it on the label,as well,as the date and who it was made for and from whom.

I do name my quilts ie "Elephants in the Garden" for my daughter. (I had put small squares of elephant fabric here and there) On the label, I add date, quilter(me), city/State. On all gifts, I add a personal note from me to receiver.

I name mine "Done" or "Finished". All kidding aside, I don't name or label my quilts. I sign and date them somewhere on the quilt itself with an archival pen. Mine go to friends and family are are used daily. When they wear out I have others they can chose from.