I have 3 quilts sort of, almost finished. One is for my mom and is totally hand quilted grandmothers garden. The other 2 are rag quilts for my brother and my grandson. I want to put a label on them so years from now it will be easy to tell who made them. Where can I get some to sew on or do I just embroydery my name, I just don't know.
Thanks,

There are preprinted labels availabe as panels, some handwrite on a block or fabric square, others print them onto fabric or hand embroider... really the choice is up to you. :D:D:D

I make my own. I cut out the shape I want square, heart, etc. and write on it with a pigma pen.

I design mine on the computer and print them on the ink jet fabric sheets I buy at JoAnns.

I am not as creative as everyone else, so I have mine made by a friend that has an embroidery machine!! :D She always does such a beautiful job.
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I make my own.

I was taught:

Cut a sheet of freezer paper letter size. Press it onto a light solid color fabric (same size as freezer paper). Place this in your ink-jet printer. It will feed in as a regular piece of paper.

On your computer, use Word or similar, design or just type out your label (name, date, quilt name, and whatever else) and then print to the freezer paper/fabric. Make sure you print on the FABRIC side.

Peel off the freezer paper, then press the printed fabric with a hot iron. This sets the ink and you have a label.

Then sew on (in any way you desire).

I use to do it that way and then someone ask if I had tried washing the label and I hadn't. Sure enough the next one I did a sample and almost all of the ink rinsed out. So now I use bubble jet or the label/photo fabric. HP printer are the worst. In fact we had printed a photo on HP photo paper it got wet and it completely disappeared. It was a Photo printer too. Epson is the best according to Best Buy for they demonstrated a photo in a jar of water done by an Epson printer and it was fine.

I still don't take chances anymore on the label. I was so disappointed, I had given so many quilts with labels printed on freezer paper and muslin, but after that I rinse my labels to make sure the ink is holding.

That last idea with the freezer paper sounds interesting, might try that one!

Sorry I thought it would be with the comment about the freezer paper. There is also a small booklet that has some different quilt labels that you can make look your way. Try copying them with a light box, or you could put the transfer ink on a copy of them. There are also some fabrics that are made as quilt labels.

This is what I do. (the fabric ironed on to freezer paper) But with HP the inks aren't permanent, so I go over them with permanent pens, and teuseneco (that probably isn't spelled right!) pigment inks. Then I press, and go.

I have done that too, it actually works quite well.

I make my own. Sis does too, and she is very creative about it. She makes miniature blocks and writes the information on the lighter parts.

I have two books on quilt labels. One is "Iron on Transfers" for quilt labels by Barbara Baatz that you can color in with permanenent color pens or embroidery. The other is "Foundation Pieced Quilt Labels" by Linda Causee. Havn't tried doing either yet but someday!

Thanks for the plug Cheryl!

I have had some embroidered for me but that was pricey. It was over $10.00 for each of them.
I make iron on tranfers with a program for doing them that I bought at an office store. Then I sew the label on. I have some small ones that I bought online with just "made with love by and my name", they were very inexpensive and I put one of those on to in case the tranfer one fades with washing.

You can buy them by yardage, cut them, and then write on them with a pigma pen, and it won't wash out. here is one link where you can see them.
http://www.backdoorquiltshoppe.com/c...id=1#Fab009977

I made my own.

Very interesting....have always been afraid to use my printer...

I make mine on my computer and print them onto fabric sheets that run through my printer. I iron under a small edge and then use a blanket stitch to sew them to a piece of fabric that matches the quilt. Then I sew that to the quilt with a blind stitch. Works great. I'm learning to machine embroidery right now, and I'd like to give that a try.

This is how I do it too.

If you try to make your own fabric sheets be sure to use bubblejet so the ink will not disappear.

I bought June Tailor Iron-On Quilt Labels (that are printed using your ink-jet printer) from JoAnn's and it was a big mistake. First of all, they are very stiff and not at all appropriate for a quilt to be used as a blanket (maybe okay for a wall hanging). Secondly, the instructions imply they are not really washable -- what's with that? Like you wouldn't need to wash a quilt?

I followed some other links on this board and learned that you need to use some products that set the ink (from your printer) in order for it to be permanent. Do some searching if you go this route.

I too make my own labels with my printer. And like some of the other ladies I iron use a blanket stitch to sew them to a piece of fabric that matches the quilt. Then I sew that to the quilt with a blind stitch. If I am making a quilt for a friend or family member I scan a picture that means something to the person receiving the quilt and use that as part of the label. I made one for a cousin and as part of the label I designed was a picture of his birthday party that all of the kids in the family was in. the picture was taken 50 years ago. For my daughters quilt label I incorporated her birth certificate including her foot prints. Everyone seems to like this personal touch and it's fun for me to come up with something for each individual.

My Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0 has text on it that I use to embroider my quilt tags. It takes me awhile to get one done since I rarely make one due to being a slow hand quilter. Before I had this sewing machine, I would embroider the information somewhere on the quilt. If it was a quilt for a grandchild to use in college, I embroider the ID info right on the lower front corner for all to see and made sure it wouldn't be easy to remove if someone want to steal the quilt. My 2 kids quilts survived college just fine and hopefully the grandchildrens will as well. The first one starts in the fall.
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Patty

I found some at Hobby Lobby. They say handmade by ______.

I've made mine with a printer, with fabric pens but also found these cute paper pieced ones from Clotilde. http://www.clotilde.com/detail.html?code=425290

I actually ended up designing a paper pieced one for my last quilt.

I also design mine on the computer using photos that are pertinent to the occasion and print them onto printable fabric sheets. I rinse to remove excess ink and heat set then border them and blind sew them on. Haven't had any problems yet.

I GET MINE FROM KEEPSAKE QUILTING. THEY ARE PANELS OF ABOUT 1 YARD AND COME WITH MANY PER PANEL OF DIFFERENT DESIGNS.