We've got stash in our bedroom, quilt rail in the hall, and now I've taken over the dining room too. LOL

What can I say, I had to dry my labels! ;-)

LOL!! Bet your not soooo keen with the household washing tee hee!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Household washing?? Hell, I don't have time for that, I have quilts to finish! LOL

BLue Chicken I think your grew up w/me!!:)Mom would be so proud!!:)Me too!LOL Skeat

LOL

In a hundred years time, our descendents will see our quilts and think "wow, they must have been cool people". They won't remember how clean (or not) our houses were!

Doesn't automatic washers and dryers mean that THEY do the laundry and we don't have to do anything? lol

Hubby thinks he's doomed? does he not realize how lucky he is you didn't make him stand in the yard with the labels pinned to him until they dried in the sun? :shock:

please tell how you made the labels thanks

Why Blue....I think that is a fabulous idea!!! My DH doesn't stand in one place for too long...and he does have his reasons !!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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.

sunnyhope -

it's the stuff that you soak your fabric in so you can print on it.

the chemicals in there produce a chemical reaction with the ink in inkjet
printers to create a washable, permanent copy of whatever your printer sees on the computer screen. it's used for making labels for the backs, along with other craft items, such as doll faces and like that.

so whatever you type in microsoft word or whatever pictures you have onscreen can be printed permanently on fabric.

Blue Chicken -

that's what i wondered about. ideally i would only want to do one at a time, but.....

since i haven't tried it, tell me, do you use it right out of the bottle or mix it?
if you use it as is, then you can pour a teeny bit at a time.

i don't want to print a bunch at a time, because not all quilts want the same size. but if that's the best way, i would print the frames on lined fabric and write the labels as needed. if you run through later on for the words, you still have to soak it again, so you may as well soak one at a time to begin with. right?

EDIT: actually, you don't need stripes. you can draw lines with a nonpermanent marker for absolutely straight lines of writing.

I poured the whole bottle into a flat tray, soaked the fabric, then poured the liquid back into the bottle. The bottle I have says it will do 20-25 A4 size sheets. So far I've done 7 and I have just over half a bottle left, so that sounds about right.

sunnyhope - the possibilities are endless! :-)

aha! so you can return the leftovers to the bottle for future use. that's good to know. i figured that once the geni was out of the bottle, there was no getting it back in again. that may change my approach.

does it stiffen the fabric? call back after you've washed it and pressed it.

sunnyhope - you can print photos that you have in your computer. obviously. i forgot to mention that.

Hubby was just worried they would not be dry in time for him to have a place to sit and eat dinner :lol: :lol: :lol: Maybe he is afraid his bed will start being used for something quilt related...other than one to sleep under :lol: :lol: :lol: I really like your idea for labels :D :D :D

What's wrong with eating off of paper plates on trays?

Poor guy. Doomed to a life of beauty, color, and a wife with a fabulous sense of humor. Poor poor Mr. BlueChicken, indeed. :D

bubble jet success depends on a chemical reaction between fabric, inkjet computer ink, and the bubble jet itself. there is also a recommended final rinse. this info is according to the store owner where i bought mine.

imho, if you used the sheets, which have already been chemically primed in some way, you would be breaking that 3-way link. also, bubble jet is costly. i would not waste it on a chancy effort like this.

why do you want to use the sheets? maybe you could save them for wallhangings that won't get washed often, if ever. bubble jet is made to be used on plain old cotton.

:-) :-) Looks like things at my old house. Got more room here at the new one but I'll still have dry the lables--but I have a place in the landury room to hang them now and enough counter top to lay them flat if I want to.

Tell your hubby he is in good company, my DH puts up with fabric and blocks everywhere, I hang washed quilts over the gazebo outside...he complained once and I told him to just be thankful it wasn't his undies! LOL

Where does a person buy bubble jet? Like at a stationary and computer store, or a fabric store, or somewhere like wal-mart? How expensive is it?

Dosnt hubby own the garage?

Tell hubby he can have the garage, and the rest of the house is pretty much yours...that's the way it's been for milenia before he came around and if it's good enough for our "make the wheel"ancestors, it should be good enough for him! LOL

okay ... here is the deal!

As long as you are in the house, on the property, and NOT headed to the car for a "quick trip" ... he is saving money! As long as he is saving money, how can he protest that the only place left to sit is his easy chair?

He is such a GOOD provider! May his tribe increase! <g>

You guys are quite creative in all aspects of life! LOL

Had a friend around to sew last night, we alternate one week here, one week at her place. And while hubby was hiding out in the garage he made us both a 12 1/2 inch square, and a 6 1/2 inch square out of perspex.

The best thing he's ever done though.... I bought some buttons for a project, five rather small buttons, and they were in a tiny paper bag. When I got home from the store I decided to clean the car out before going inside, and accidentally threw the little bag out.
When I went to finish my project, and realised the buttons were missing I was so gutted. There was no way I was fishing through the rubbish bin, and the store was closed for the weekend. While I was inside having a wee tanty, hubby went out and went through all the rubbish and found the tiny little paper bag with five tiny little buttons in it.

Your hubby is a sweetie to go through the trash for you!!!!! :D :D :D How nice that he made you both squares....a keeper for sure :D :D :D

i don't know the kind of store that BC got hers in, but i got mine in a LQS.

i don't remember how much it cost. i do remember that it wasn't INexpensive. but i have seen it in catalogues and online. you might be able to find it at a better price discounted somewhere. if you search, i'm sure you could find information on how to use and maybe where to find.

i just tried it. if you pop in bubble jet.com, there are loads of sites with info.

Thanks butterfly...i will google it to give me a better idea, im thinking now that the fabric sheets i bought will work for my labels :)

someone posted that , i think yesterday, and said that the ink washed out of the labels. check back on this thread.

The bubble jet sets the ink jet into the fabric. After following the directions, the next step is to soak the printed fabric in a - - I forget what it's called .... shoot! and, now I can't find it ... but there was a liquid that I had to soak it in after it got printed on ... and that adhered the ink to the fabric threads.
I made 250 totes for a gavel passing event perhaps two years ago ... the logo was huge! a full sheet size of a cowboy on a rearing horse ... you get the picture <g> ... anyway, they are holding up very well, and we all know how totes get used. May even be washed more than a quilt, to be sure, eh?