How To Make A Quilt Label

Design your quilt label in your computers word processing program. I make up the label by embroidering the design and the name of quilt maker quilter year place and anything else wanted on that label.

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Cut the quilt label youll be using away from.

How to make a quilt label. Here are some ideas for making a quilt label your own draw or embroider the words and add embellishments such as vines flowers or french knots incorporate one or more extra blocks from the quilt top into the label for a framed finish bind the label edges like a mini quilt. You can use an embroidery machine to put your information in a nice design. Print your own quilt label tutorial.

Find a font you like and enter the text line by line. Include the name of the quilter the date of completion and the city and state of residence of the quilter. The freezer paper will stick a bit.

With an iron on the cotton setting. Add an image if desired to the quilt label design. To start cut a piece of freezer paper and light colored fabric slightly larger than a standard piece of printer paper in the us thats 8 12 x 11.

If you do this it is generally recommend that you add it before quilting so someone cant take the label off and claim the quilt as their own. Most quilters prefer to make a quilt label on a separate light piece of fabric and attach it to the back of the quilt. When you are satisfied with it print it onto paper backed pre treated fabric.

Place the freezer paper shiny side down on top of the fabric. How to make quilt labels first create the label in word. After stitching this out and turning edges of top and both sides i place it along the bottom of the back of the quilt and include it in the stitching of the binding.

Print a sample onto paper and make adjustments as needed. The label can be as large as you like as it will be located on the back of the quilt.

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