I always label my quilts using a fabric permanent marker. History is important.

I also label my quilts to my friends and family. I made one for my daughter to commerate the buying of the lot for their lake home. They had a picture of the lot before the house was built on it. I scanned that into my computer and put it on a printable label and sewed to the back of the quilt. She loved it and my son in law was so impressed with the quilt and the label.

I always put a label on all my quilts,whether I keep them or give them as gifts. If a gift,I put the name of the quilt,wheo it is to,the date and then made by me. It gives the history of the quilt. Now that I have relocated to oklahoma from Texas, I even put the county that I live in.

I do it for two reasons--to document my quilts for posterity, but also because it allows me to put a special message on the quilt for its recipient. I find a lot of quilty sayings online, but it also documents a special occasion in the recipient's life. Also, because my quilts often go to a long arm quilter, I feel better acknowledging the name of the quilter. It's how I made peace with not doing it myself.

Ditto!! I label everything

I don't label my quilts. I don't feel I need the recognition. I just give them to people and they know who I am and if they don't my name won't mean anything anyway.

I do like Shelbie & use Bounce sheets to turn it for applique is not my thing. I try to use same material used in the fromt & make a small pieced block to sign on info for the back of the quilt

It is my understanding that it is important to put the name of the quilt and date made. Anything else is a personal thing.

Oh, please label, even with just your name (made by) and date. I have a quilt my grandma hand quilted and hand pieced, probably in the 1930's but I have no documentation. I love it to death, but would have loved to know when she made it. I have added a label with what I know, but it is pretty limited. :cry:

I try to put labels on all of the quilts I give to family and friends. The donation quilts have labels put on by our guild. For my own labels I print them out on the Tshirt transfer paper. Then I can iron them onto fabric. They'll last much longer than the labels written with permanent ink. They also are much neater and more legible.

You can also print labels out on fabric. However, if you do that you need to use clear fingernail polish or some other clear fixative and go over the printed areas. That will make the printing more or less permanent.