How to Make a Quilt Label

Suzy Quilts brings us this helpful tutorial on four creative ways to label a quilt. This is something important that quilters often overlook after finishing a piece.

This tutorial has some fun ideas for your labels. They range from simple DIY ones to custom woven ones. I particularly like the print-your-own method and plan on giving it a try. The article shows me exactly how to do it.

As with all of her other articles, Suzy’s tutorial has lovely photo examples and helpful details to get you started.

I can’t tell you how many times I have forgotten to label my quilts and it is a shame. I am finding that many years later I don’t remember exactly when I made a quilt, or what I made it for. Labels help with that. In addition, a label is important if you sell your quilts or give them as a gift.

Make sure that all of your quilts can be identified and label them. It’s easy with one of the creative suggestions that can be found in this article: 4 Creative Ways to Label a Quilt

[photo from Suzy Quilts]

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I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come.

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards.

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

get well soon
happy birthday
thank you
thinking of you
congratulations
anniversary
new home
good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total).

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like.

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered.

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try.

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]

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