Yep, tell hubby he is doomed -- to a life (and house) full of beautiful quilts :D :D

i must know!

what do your labels say?

I love your "clothes line".......make that "label line". What a clever way to dry them. You must show us a close up of them. Nosy minds want to see!! :lol:

My dining room table is even worse - I do my cutting there, so it's there permanently. I think you have a creative imagination to use all your space!

Absolutely true. I want to leave something that will last.

Oh I am so glad that there is someone else like me..... had to rush to take the sewing machine of the dining room table so we could eat.

Like your label idea. Pre printed on the computer... or not ???

Elle

We all think alike don't we! LOL

I should have told him lucky he didn't have to make me a little clothesline.

The labels are for my blue and white star exchange quilt... they have each person's user name, real name, and where they're from. I got stars from Canada, USA, and the UK!

I designed labels in EQ and used the bubblejet stuff to print them onto white cotton. I used to buy the pre-prepared sheets for the printer, but they're really pricey. The bubblejet stuff is time consuming, but a LOT cheaper. And these have come out a lot nicer, I've used a high thread count pure white cotton that is used for dying. The images are crisp and the colours nice and bright.

Blue Chicken -

i have the bubble jet stuff and it says it's enough for 7 yards.
you can't be doing it all at one time surely. how much do you do at a time and do you also use the rinse that they suggest? i bought that too.
i get the dover books email and in each one there are samples for printout. i saved the ones for past era frames. i thought i would print out the frames and fill in info with sigma pens. or use word. i don't have eq. so i would run each one through 2x. once for the fames and again for the info.
i've never done it, so do you think it would work that way? do you think it can be run through 2x?

my other idea was to print the frames on good quality striped fabric, then use the stripes as lines and use the sigma pens. feedback, anyone?

since dh is becoming your expert at this, maybe he knows the answer.

:lol: :lol:

whats bubble jet? :oops:

This is the first time I've used it, so I'm kind of still experimenting. The bottle I have says that ideally it needs to be printed on within half an hour of drying.

So I only did enough for the sheets I needed this time. And yes, I used their rinse too. I'm going to wash them in a normal wash today, to make sure they don't run or fade, with a gentle wash powder.

Thinking ahead... I'm not too sure how I'll do labels for single quilts. It would be easy to cut small pieces of fabric, and adjust the paper size on the printer, but it's quite a rigmarole for one small label. I like the idea of pre-printing a pile and then using a pen, but then again I like the "perfect" nature of a printed label, and the note on the bottle about printing within half an hour makes me wonder what would happen if you left some for days or weeks.

Might be worthy of a thread all on its own I think!

Oh, and absolutely it can be sent through the printer twice. I had one sheet that only printed on one end, and it smeared a bit, so I turned it around and reprinted on the other end and it came through fine. I also sent one through upside down (so the labels printed on the freezer paper instead of the fabric) and I resent that one through fine too.