Labeling Quilts

With all the quilts I've finished in the past few months, I realized I was way overdue for making labels. But in a way, that's a good thing.

Since I use 8½" X 11" sheets of EQ Printables for making labels, it's most efficient to print a whole page of labels, rather than print one or two labels, piecemeal, and then have small leftovers of EQ Printables that aren't easy to feed through the printer. 

To make six quilt labels, I used two pages of EQ Printables. As you might notice, one label - the one for the group quilt, Pot Luck - was quite large because I included a complete description of how the quilt came together, as well as a color key with everyone's names and initials on top of the blocks each person made.

I like to make a fabric border around each label because it's easier to hand stitch through fabric than through the EQ Printables.

I cut 1¾"-wide strips that, after being sewn to all four sides, I press with Quilting and Crafting Spray. I won this product in an Instagram giveaway, and found I like it for the way it enhances pressing, but doesn't give it a starched feel.

After pressing flat, I fold each raw edge in half to the inside, meeting the seam.

Every quilt label includes:

• quilt name
• quilt dimensions
• description - credit to the designer (if made from a pattern), or made for a challenge
• type of quilting - free motion, walking foot, or ruler work
• machine I quilted on
• my name, with maiden name
• my city, state
• month, year finished; and if know, the start month and year

Here are the labels I made bordered with fabrics from each quilt. 

Each was hand-sewn to the lower right corner of the quilt back.

A necessary job, and a good feeling of accomplishment.

Two of these quilts are heading to Austin for QuiltCon judging. One is a donation. The others? For now, they're joining stacks of older quilts in the top of the closet. 

Linda