pocoellie

I only put labels on quilts, if they're gifts, not for my donated quilts. On my labels, I just put who the quilt is for, and who made it and when, and that's it.

Rhonda K

Yes, I make labels for my quilts on my embroidery machine. Sometimes it includes my own special name for the quilt.

My labels are double folded pieces of fabric that I used in quilt. That way there is always a piece of repair fabric in the quilt. They are stitched right into two corners of binding and then hand stitched into the other two sides.

meyert

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I like putting labels on all of my gift quilts. If they are donation quilts I usually just sew in the year and month somewhere on a lower block or the binding with my initials

I think the labels make the gifts more personal. Some day I will have an embroidery machine to make my own (I hope)

Jeanne S

I only label gift quilts, and buy them from a seller on Etsy. She prints beautiful custom labels---I include the name of the recipient, "made with love" by me, and the name of the quilt pattern. I don't label charity quilts or those I keep.

dunster

I started out labeling all of my quilts, but sadly have gotten out of the habit. I know that it's important, and I should do better.

bearisgray

Why are charity quilts not labelled?

dunster

They're often labeled with the name of an organization that donated them, but usually not with an individual's name. I think the reasoning is that the giver doesn't know who will wind up with the quilt and doesn't want to invite personal contact, or some just want to give anonymously.

bearisgray

I think I would like some personal contact -

SusieQOH

I am in the same camp, dunster. For some reason I always sign and date my cross-stitch pieces. Not sure why I've slacked on my quilts.
Thanks for the reminder, everyone!

Anniedeb

I have never labeled anything I've made. When I started out, I didn't think anything I made was "worth it". I've been encouraged to do so, but just have not done so yet.