Do you add a label on every quilt you make?

Do you attach it BEFORE quilting or After?

What form of label do you use? - on the roll, customized, embroidery the name or write it?

I attach mine first then do the quilting right through it. Then it can't fall off. I heard this tip on Simply Quilts I think.
I usually just iron freezer paper to the wrong side of white muslin, put a piece of lined notebook paper behind that, hold everything up to the window so I can see the lines, and, using a permanent type pen, write my info. But I've also used the fabric kind that come on a roll.

if i could remember to put it on before quilting, i would! most times i remember to add one.
i have added it to the corner,sewn on with the binding on two sides..the other sides i use a fabric glue or or the iron on stuff for the rest of it.

that is, IF i remember.

I add on almost all, I just made a quilt for a friend to give to someone else. I didn't put a label on that one. I make my own labels I will make up a small label to match the front.

I add a label after the whole quilt is done. Sometimes I put one away without a certain person in mind.

The Amish is our area simply write on the back of the quilt. Initials and the date.

I label every quilt. I use ink jet fabric & do several labels per sheet then cut apart & border w/some fabric from the quilt & attach by hand after quilting.

Always add one, depends on size of quilt and functunality of quilt what I use and where I place.

I just found that June Tailor's website has quilt labels you can print onto fabric and use. I think they're free too!
There could be other sites too.
When I'm ready to label this king size quilt I've been working on (if I live that long...lol) I'm going to try one of these.

I put labels on my larger quilts, the art quilts I sign and date on the front. I need to start putting labels on those, too.

I always add a label. I design my own on the computer.

Could we see some of your quilt labels? I always forget to add them! 'guess I need to google "free quilt labels" in google!

I do now. I did not when I first started out in 1992. I so wish that I had. There are more that do have labels than not, but I think about the others sometimes. Years from now, no one will know who made them.

I cut pieces of a certain fabric. It is off white with a little tan scroll print. They are 6 x 8 inches before sewing. I write the information on them and press to set the ink.

I have attached a label to every quilt that I have given as a gift. The ones around the house that I have kept and the ones that I have donated have not gotten labels. I should label the ones I have kept....
I used to use a square of Muslin that I would write on with a Pigma pen and then sew on the back.
Not I use my embroidery machine and embroider on a piece of light colored fabric, incorporate is into a leftover block or some of the matching scraps and then sew on back.

I am sending a photo of the last 2 labels I made. I made them in a microsoft publisher program. But you could make them in word as well and just insert the clip art. The second one on the page is an actual graphic of the block I used in her quilt that I pulled from my design in EQ6.

Thank you shaverg - those are beutiful labels - and you have so much info on each one! You did a great job!

I have never added a labell, but I intend to from now on. At first I just wasn't Proud of the quilt....then I learned that they were'nt actually all that bad and no ones first quilt is gorgeous...we'll....I've seen some that are. Anyway I have pics of quilts I have made and can't remember who I gave them too! Didn't even write on the back of the photo, duh! People that I give them to as gifts are always saying I should label them! Loved all the info you talented ladies gave!

I put mine on after quilting. I embroider mine.

hi i have been looking for someone who makes lables. do you sell them? if so please Pm me and let me know. ty tommye

I add my label to the backing fabric before I send it out to my longarm quilter. If it is a machine embroidered quilt, I will embroider an extra block allowing extra room for information I will want to add. (After the baby is born I would add the babies name, date of birth.) If I can I will embroider this information when I make the label. If it is a pieced quilt top, I sometimes make an extra block if there is room to add the information, but sometimes I will add an embroidered block to these quilts as well.

I always try to add a label,now that i have an embroidery machine i embroider it and add it to the back with a smaller block that i use on the front of the quilt then quilt after it is pieced together onto the backing.

if the quilt or hanging is for a special person or for a special occasion, I make the label.

If it is just made for no special reason, I have bought the "made by_________"
labels andused them.

mj

I always label what ever i make; style depends on the item, before or after quilting? usually after but before binding.
there have been a couple that became part of the quilt before quilting...
i've printed labels on the computer...signed right on the back of the quilt...embroidered a block that told the story...and then for little items...totes, table toppers, ect just one of the little sew in made by me labels do the job. i've even quilted the label before (as in the words themselves being part of the quilting design. i quilted a whole story on the top of a quilt once...use your imagination but LABEL YOU WORK!!!

Beautiful labels. I've got to start adding them to my quilts.

I sometimes use a block design from the quilt for my label. and I put a label on table runners too. I write the pattern name date finished made by my name and if a gift the persons name I'm giving it too.

I have a card maker program and I use that to print on treated muslin.

I've started labeling all the quilts that go to family. Then because of a suggestion on this board, I have started adding care instructions to the back also. That remembering to do it thing gets to me also!

I've labeled every quilt so far. I used the Downy label for my Downy quilt, but for the others I started by using Printed Treasures. Now that I've learned machine embroidery, I'm embroidering them. I enjoy making the label as much as I enjoy the quilt.

to fabric-holic: great tip for labels, I'll try that for my next quilt label.

I have some good tight muslin that I iron to freezer paper. I design what I want in Word Perfect, stick in some clip art, and print it in black through my inkjet printer. I find that color inks are not permanent. I then iron it, rinse it under water, iron it again, and repeat. Then I stitch 2 edges in with the binding, turn the other two edges under and hand stitch down.

I label everything. If the quilt is for a family member, I use a heart template and sew it on the back corner with a quilt or blanket stitch. Then I use a permanent marker and hand write the info, place and date. Sometimes I use one of the fabrics in the quilt if it's lite enough for the writing to show and I love to use varigated thread to sew it on with.

What type of printer do you have. I found on my HP photo and my Epson. The black also faded quite a bit.

I am the odd-woman-out here in that I embroider a dragonfly on each of my quilts, usually on the back in the corner.
I wrote a little poem to send along with gifted baby quilts that includes washing instructions.

I add a tiny heart button somewhere on the quilt.......started when I found a tiny hole on the edge of the border when I got it back from the machine quilter.....and it was for a 50th anniversary gift. (no, I didn't say anything to the quilter, she would have been so upset).

The button covered it just fine and besides Velentine's day is my birthday and the button hearts are now my logo.....and go on all quilts, wall hangings or whatever.

So remember some good comes from mishaps.....no matter how bad you might think they are......

mj

Valentine...should know how to spell that day, wouldn't you think !!!!!!!!!!!

I always put a label on anything I make. I embroider mine with to whom the quilt is for (if it's a gift), my name, the name of the pattern and the date completed. I attach a border and hand sew it after the quilt is complete since I wouldn't know the completion date beforehand.

Everyone has such terrific ideas! Thank you all - maybe one day, I should sit at my machine and embroider labels to "stock up"!

I add a label to nearly every quilt I make. I customize my labels using my printer and printer fabric. I try to include form whom I made the quilt, who made it and when it was made.

i am lucky enough to have an embroidery machine so my labels are personnel and embroidered I do put one on each quilt usually with a small personal note date and signature its important for the future person who will covet our quilts as antiques.

i am lucky enough to have an embroidery machine so my labels are personnel and embroidered I do put one on each quilt usually with a small personal note date and signature its important for the future person who will covet our quilts as antiques.

i make mine with inkjet printer then when it is time to put the label on i use a permanant ink to sign it ,date it and put the persons name i made it for on it and when i quilt my quilt i stitch over it to make sure it is on there for good