I put them on back right-hand corner. I write the label with a Pigma Permanent Pen and sew a border around the label with a fabric from the quilt. I've tried printing them on the special designed paper but found they totally wash away. Found that out the hard way when I made g'daughter a t-shirt quilt and printed pictures from high school and added them to sashing. When I washed the quilt, ALL the pictures almost completely faded away. Would like to know others experience with the printable fabric. I tried soaking some in Bubble Jet and they faded until they looked more like negatives than pictures. I worry that all my earlier quilts with printed labels will disappear (the label, that is) once they are washed.

I, too, use jet ink printed labels. I have found that if you iron them after printing, it sets the ink.

I once made a terrible mistake on a quilt for a granddaughter. I made the label and bonded it over the mistake then Zig-Zagged around it, turned the quilt over and put the same information on the back. Worked fine for a cover up, a bit unusual. On the back, I embroidered (machine) aroundthe whole thing. The design showed through on the front. Made it a little special for my little Jenny.

I once made a terrible mistake on a quilt for a granddaughter. I made the label and bonded it over the mistake then Zig-Zagged around it, turned the quilt over and put the same information on the back. Worked fine for a cover up, a bit unusual. On the back, I embroidered (machine) aroundthe whole thing. The design showed through on the front. Made it a little special for my little Jenny.

Me too. Lefties of the world unite!!!

I include all the standard information that has been suggested and attach it to the right lower corner. I feel my creation is art just like any artist and sign it in permanent ink.I allow it to dry completely before attaching so there is no bleeding, when wet. If I am donating the quilt I add the date, my name and a message to the recipient that I trust the love I put into this quilt will bring them comfort,warmth and love.

Cherish your artistry and it's heritage...
Andie :D :D :D

Have used embroidery machine for labels, marker pens, and I really enjoy going into my program "Print Master Gold 18" and design a label using art work that is available on this program. This way I am able to print on all the info for my label, in any script I chose, review it, and if I like save it. I then print it to fabric backed with freezer paper (8x11 1/2) and it is ready to trim and attach to my quilt. I like to attach the label before I quilt. This is one of my favorite things about finishing my quilt.

I usually use Printed Treasures for ink jet printers for my labels. Sometimes I bring in clip art and put it on the label as well. I went to HI a couple of years ago and took a quilt class. I scanned a small map of the islands into my pc and inserted that on the top of my label, then wrote a note about how excited I was to be able to take a HI quilt class there. Sometimes, I do art work using Pigma pens on white fabric and write a label by hand and sometimes I just write on the fabric itself. I always do back lower right hand corner for some reason. I've never had trouble with it washing out. I always press with a hot iron after I'm done and ink is dry.

I've never labelled my quilts, so I can't speak for how you'd go about it, really...but if I did, I would put it in the bottom right of the back too. My reason is this: I am an avid reader...you read a book left to right, top to bottom, front side, then back side of the page. The label, to me, is like an "about the author" type thing that you would find at the end of a book. The bottom right back corner, in my logic, is the end. Also, I wouldn't want to take away from the front of the quilt. Depending on what you use for your label, and what colours are in your quilt top, it could be a glaring, unintended focal point.

Yikes, that is discouraging! I'm about to make a memory quilt using some photos and bought a kit with Bubble Jet Set to pretreat the fabric. You had pretreated and it still didn't set the inks so they didn't wash out?

Ohhhhh, what to do?

Great Idea!!!!

Sometime quilt shows will require the label to be put in a certain place. I heard this funny one last week at retreat.

You should always label your quilts because if you give one to a son or daughter and don't label it, then when you are "gone" the mother in law may take credit.

On the quilts I am making for my grands I am embroidering their name of the bottom border of the quilt with my sewing machine. There is no way anyone is going to remove this. Too many stitches and you take out 1 stitch at a time. On the greats quilts I have added their name on the front of the quilt in some unique way.

I like the idea of using the ink jet printer because you can write so much more, I also like the idea of leterally signing your name with the pigma pen, so personal

I did an I Spy quilt for my grandson and used some of the fabric packs for ink jet printers for family pictures. When I washed it some faded but others were still perfect. Since I used several different brands I will never know which ones faded. So I will test before I do it again.

I too use my ink jet printer to make my labels. I iron a piece of very good muslin to freezer paper. I include who it is for and from, who pieced it and who quilted it, the city where they live and where I live, the date, the name of the quilt if any, and the occasion for the giving. I often include a small little graphic pic like a heart or teddy bear. I place the label on the back lower right corner and sew it down right in the corner. The binding trims it out on two sides and I needle-turn the other 2 sides. If I am machine quilting the quilt, I may place the label somewhere on the back first with wonder-under and let the machine stitches catch the label.

I have also heard of using a fabric friendly pen and writing information in the selvage of the quilt BEFORE you put the binding on. This way if your quilt is ever stolen, it is one "hidden" identifying mark.
Of course you should always put a label on your quilt.
And you should keep a journal of your quilts with a picture and any information that you might have.

One of my friends does hers on the computer and prints it out on fabric. She has done several landscape quilts and she puts the inspiration photograph on the label also. Very impressive. I have not gotten past signing the back with the date.

I make my labels on my printer. I use the special fabric that goes through the ink jet printer.
First I compose the label and print it on paper. Then I cut a piece of the fabric about an inch bigger that the label in all directions. I tape it over the printout with scotch tape. Then I run the same piece of paper through the printer again. Let it dry for 15 min, then rinse in running cool water and let dry.
Once it's dry, I make a small square of the fabrics in the quilt and bind it with extra binding. I attach the label on that with a hand stitch.
Then I attach it to the bottom right corner of the back of the quilt.
This way the owner has spare bits and pieces of fabric and binding should they ever have to repair the quilt.

Duh!!! I'll bet this is why labels are in the lower right hand corner. It's also the place painters put their signature, except for Pablo Picasso. But then he bent a lot of rules.

This is an example of one of my quilt labels, it is on a landscape quilt I did for the challenge

I have put them in a corner (sometimes even making the label a triangle by folding a square in half and sewing it on with the machine when I sew the binding on and then I only have 1 side to hand sew), centered on the bottom, or pieced into the backing and quilted on. I love to use old lacy hankies that I embroider on my machine for my labels - do have to stabilize them. I'll use 1/4 or 1/2 of the hankie usually, sometimes I'll use the whole hankie, but only if it is quite small.

This is one of the best labels I have ever seen, great job.
I only have an ink jet printer, but would love to learn how to make printed labels, can anyone recommend a website for me to see, I am a visual person. thank you!! and what are some of the pitfalls.

Does anyone have a resource for someone that makes the labels for you? My guild told us of website the other day that makes them and sells them by the rolls at very cheap, but I don't remember the name. :(

I think there are vendors on Etsy.com that will make custom labels.

I usually use a pigma pen, but have done hand embroidery. On one of my first quilts, I used a sharpie, and it faded a lot. But before you use pigma pens, test them for washability. I have had no trouble with black, but I bought a pack of bright colors and pre-tested them on muslin. Some of them ran and transfered to other fabrics, so I haven't used them on my quilts.

Usually my label is in bottom right corner of the back, but I've put labels in other spots on the back - once to cover up a stain, once to cover up a slash I made when cutting the loose threads away. I've also put one in the bottom center of the back. I don't really think about it much.

I have been finishing quilts that my aunt made, i have made teddybears from old baby quilts that my grandmother made. I also include the history

For example: Made by Me, g'daughter of..... from quilts made by g'ma(date of birth & death) for Uncle Tub, son of G'ma & G'pa - married date...

I put as much of the family history & dates as i can. My hope is that the teddy bear, quilt, whatever, will be passed down thru the generations and they will always know where it came from.

My next project after my current G'ma's Flower Garden that i'm finishing for my aunt will be putting together a quilt from diamond shapes that my Grandma cut out before she died in 1945. I am going to make Carpenter's Wheel because i think it will show off the diamond shapes better.

She started tumbling block pattern - I'll use it for the label when i finish it - That may even get put on the front.

I just use Word to write the info for my label, sometimes insert clip art. But, I often put a fabric border on my label and sew it in the lower right corner.

I actually buy my Pigma Pens at one of my favorite quilting shops. I buy them by the pack for variety of color.

I've embroidered mine by hand, used computer printed labels, used pre-purchased labels, made my own..

I just put them somewhere on the back, sometimes the left hand side (usually there - I'm left handed) and other times on the right hand side. Depends on if the back is pieced or not, and where the label just seems to "flow"

I do use Pigma pens often, but I've also used Sharpie and they've been holding up fine.

I'll be piecing the back to my Row Robin quilt, and I'm having each member sign one of these labels below. Each label will be sewn into the back of the row the participant did.

I think it is the preference of quilter. I always put this little quote on my labels:
"When you sleep under this quilt, you are sleeping under a blanket of love."