Quilt Labels
06-06-2012, 08:28 AM
#41
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Location: southern Oklahoma
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Just made my first label with my new embroidery machine. I usually have used Printed Treasures and made my labels in my Microsoft Home Publishing. However, I think the embroidery will be so much more permanent.
I may have mentioned this before, but I made a quilt for my grandbaby a couple of years ago. They were bringing it when they flew from Washington state to Dallas. When they got off the plane, they accidentally left the quilt. The airline personnel read the label and CALLED ME!! I was able to get a call to them before they got out of the airport and they went back and picked it up. Labels are important! (I had my name, city and state on it.)
I may have mentioned this before, but I made a quilt for my grandbaby a couple of years ago. They were bringing it when they flew from Washington state to Dallas. When they got off the plane, they accidentally left the quilt. The airline personnel read the label and CALLED ME!! I was able to get a call to them before they got out of the airport and they went back and picked it up. Labels are important! (I had my name, city and state on it.)
06-06-2012, 09:31 AM
#42
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I make my quilt labels, usually from muslin, so I will have as much room as I want to write the history of the quilt.
Information included is the name of maker, quilter, place, and date as well as the origin of the fabric, pattern, reason (if anything special) for making the quilt and intended recipient. I write this in my own hand with a fabric pen or with a fine point permanent Sharpie. I do this because reading my mother's recipes written in her hand makes them so much more personal than reading them in printed form straight from the computer. froggyintexas
Information included is the name of maker, quilter, place, and date as well as the origin of the fabric, pattern, reason (if anything special) for making the quilt and intended recipient. I write this in my own hand with a fabric pen or with a fine point permanent Sharpie. I do this because reading my mother's recipes written in her hand makes them so much more personal than reading them in printed form straight from the computer. froggyintexas
06-06-2012, 11:14 AM
#43
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Great labels Dolly!
I use Microsoft Publisher. I typically make them 2"x4". Print them on Printed Treasures fabric. I have tried other types of printer fabric, but they faded badly when washed. Printed Treasures seems to be the best. I bought a book of labels, scanned them, colored them in PhotoSuite. I add name of the quilt pattern, for whom (if there is a specific recipient), my name, where I live (city and state), date (month and year) and a graphic that compliments the quilt top. Two sides are stitched into the border and the other two are hand stitched (that way I only need to sew down 2 sides - I hate hand stitching). I've attached a couple of labels that I have done. These two labels were made for quilts that my niece made. The rubber ducky was scanned from the fabric, tweaked and saved as a jpg. The larger one was scanned from the label book and colored in PhotoSuite.
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Dolly in MI
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Dolly in MI
06-06-2012, 12:05 PM
#45
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I don't know if the other printer brands are as good at supporting printing on Fabric as HP -- the last Epson I tried was years ago and I took it back because it did not work.
If your sewing machine can embroider letters (a lot of them can now), then put a piece of stabilizer behind the fabric (to prevent puckers) and make your label. I made a bunch with my old Janome 6500 for DD because she wanted them embroidered (I print mine off in Word with my picture and the picture of who I am giving it to). I gave DD the 6500 and now she embroiders her own. It is not as easy with a normal machine as with an embroidery machine, but it works well.
If your sewing machine can embroider letters (a lot of them can now), then put a piece of stabilizer behind the fabric (to prevent puckers) and make your label. I made a bunch with my old Janome 6500 for DD because she wanted them embroidered (I print mine off in Word with my picture and the picture of who I am giving it to). I gave DD the 6500 and now she embroiders her own. It is not as easy with a normal machine as with an embroidery machine, but it works well.
06-06-2012, 03:44 PM
#46
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I print out what words I want on the label on paper using the computer. I use a piece of fabric from the quilt for the label. The fabric is placed over the paper and I use my light box to write the words. I use pigma pens - they work great and don't wash out.
06-06-2012, 08:15 PM
#49
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Location: Oregon
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I do them on my emboridery machine that way they last for ever(or at least as long as the quilt) I have order a designed one from threadarts, that I can down load to the machine, will be easier than doing one or two words at a time.
06-07-2012, 10:49 AM
#50
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I love Sewnsewer2's work as well--she is so accomodating and will present not just 4 ideas--but sometimes, I have asked her for 10 variations! Her work is phenomenal--to the point where people ask me more about the label than the quilt itself. I suggest going that route.
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