How to Label your Quilts the Modern Way,or the Old Way

From "traditional" to" modern" adding a label to your quilt is easy. Using your computer or the old fashion way you can add a personal touch to your quilts with quilt labels. See the video Quick and Easy Way to Hang a Quilt with "One Stitch"and it will show you how easy it is to make a corner label with no hand stitching
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The sky is the limit, How are you going to label your quilt?

[@melindaostergren8115]

I used to be able to use a permanent calligraphy pen for labels when I was younger but now I rely on the printer and enjoy using an italic font. For picnic/utility quilts just writing on the backing worked well, also. I’m the current custodian of a circa 1858 indigo and white Oak Leaf Reel and my first quilting task of 2023 is to get my kid (50!) to set up my inkjet printer so I can write a detailed label of what we know of our 19 year old ancestress who made this lovely piece as part of the quilts she brought to her marriage in New York State. As always, Laura, you’ve shared another useful and beautifully done video. Thank you.

[@mouselane]

When attaching my labels, I like to tuck some small fabric pieces from the quilt underneath to use for patches in the future. Hopefully they will never be needed! 😍

[@nenaalto8570]

I have watched quite a few of your videos, and I just want to say that you are very knowledgeable regarding sewing - anything and sewing equipment - old and new. Not only that, but you are a terrific teacher! Thank you for all of the hours you put in to your "lessons". I have learned a lot from you and expect to learn a lot more as I watch more of your videos - and I have been sewing for years! Thank you again!

[@SewVeryEasy]

thank you and thank you for watching

[@amandalemler1389]

Don’t know what I would do without your tips!😊

[@wilycat5290]

Thanks for covering the bases on labels. I always get so much from your tutorials. You're a treasure 🪙. Thank you for the video 😊👍💕

[@ccpperrett7522]

Thank you, Laura for all the great tips and ideas.

[@merryhill4790]

Thanks Laura, your videos are always great. Love your channel.

[@moonistew]

such interesting ideas and great to see Laura's creative, past projects!

[@karylrapport8915]

I love your instructions! They are so helpful! I learn something new every time I watch. Thank you!

[@themamma341]

These are great ideas and so helpful for a new quilter like me, thank you!

[@laurettejussaume4585]

you are just an amazing lady thank you for everything you do for us.

[@MyKim1967]

Laura~You did a FANTASTIC job in this video regarding labeling your quilts. So many questions I had thought about was answered by watching this. I now know that I can be very creative or very simple in labeling. SO happy this was available to us quilters. Also~ I love your voice, it is very articulate, soft & slow and easy to understand each step as you describe things very well. Thank you for taking the time making this.

[@SewVeryEasy]

thank you and thank you for your kind comment:)

[@annasipinski2468]

Soo many great options! You present and explain everything well! I love your videos and am grateful for all the quilt lessons learned. I will have to watch this video a few more times to decide what method I will use! Also lovely quilts that you have made! Thank you Anna from Manitoba

[@laurarenda8383]

Excellent tutorial on labeli g. I have made a few quilts, but not until the last few years had I thought of labeling. I love the prairie corners in the binding.. My favorite by far. Thanks Laura! Love your name😉

[@miawallsten4069]

Thank you! It was great to see so many ideas for the label. Thank you for sharing them!

[@MoMaryR]

Great information here on labelling and I am drooling over all of your beautiful quilts.

[@SewVeryEasy]

lol thanks:)

[@laineysilva3146]

Thank you for sharing your idea's. I absolutely love this post!!!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thanks for sharing,good idea. There are so many ways to label quilts.

[@janiceheape8031]

Thank you very much for explaining many options. I am new at quilting and learn so much from you. The final touch can now be done. Brilliant ideas!!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thank you, I'm happy to be able to help:)

[@linarao265]

Love all the ideas you have shared here. Thank you so much.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Lina Rao Thank you! and thanks for watching

[@janas.9629]

Again, what a great inspiration. I am now finishing another quilt and your video was much help for me. Greetings, Jana

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Jana S. Glad I could help:) and thanks for watching

[@maryellenkelly1411]

Thank you for so many label ideas!

[@eileenfb1948]

Thank you. I will print mine. I prefer your method of spray basting the fabric to the paper - I can do that! Brilliant!

[@SewVeryEasy]

your welcome, I do try to find easy ways to do things and this is one of them. Thanks

[@miriamayala5757]

Thanks Laura you are the best teacher out there !!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Sew kind of you to say, Thank you:)

[@christinelynch4200]

This was just an awesome video! Some reminders of what you can do and clever ways to label a quilt...Thanks so much

[@SewVeryEasy]

Christine Lynch thanks Christine! thanks for watching:)

[@patriciagreene383]

you are so talented-beautiful ideas thank-you

[@karenhubler2792]

You are an amazing and talented woman. Thank you so much for the sweet gift (everything you have taught me in the last year, ) some day I hope to say thank you in a much better way.

[@SewVeryEasy]

thanks and thank you for watching :) :):)

[@aok1951]

Thank you for another great tutorial - always so helpful and easy to follow.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Ann Marie Glad you like it:)thanks for watching

[@Melatina77]

I really enjoy your videos. I learn so much by watching them!

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Melatina77 Thanks:) I'm happy you join along

[@bookbeing]

your post here helps so much as i was agonizing over this very topic! thanks:)

[@SewVeryEasy]

+bookbeing Glad I could help, and thanks for watching

[@carolhudson1194]

I love your idea of putting a triangle on the corner to put a pole through to hang it on your wall. I have been looking for an idea to make a heavyish curtain to hang on my bedroom windows in the winter. I have decided to use your idea and make a lovely quilt to hang over my windows in winter to save heating costs. You are going to help me reduce my electricity bill. Thank you so much.

[@SewVeryEasy]

That's a great idea!

[@Ketutar]

I just have to say, even when this is totally irrelevant, that you look amazing! I love your colors and style. Very, very nice :-)

[@SewVeryEasy]

Ketutar Jensen On my:) thank you very much. and thanks for watching have a great day

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Great video! I haven't labeled any of my quilts, but I'm going to start and needed ideas. TFS

[@SewVeryEasy]

here is a idea to get started kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3vdgqZoeKx-h8U

[@darbyrd3539]

Hello Laura very good tutorial. I am going to give this a try.. very informative Also I really like the quilt on your wall

[@carmenburger4214]

Just discovered you and subscribed! You explain everything so well and it's easy to follow! Thanks! Will be watching more of you and sharing you with my quilting buddies!

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Carmen Burger Welcome "sew" happy to have you joining along.

[@sharontucker3460]

Great ideas for labeling quilts - THANKS!!!!

[@SewVeryEasy]

your welcome! I am glad you enjoyed it:)

[@eileenjaneke1943]

Thank you! I enjoyed this tutorial very much.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Eileen Janeke Thanks Eileen:)

[@KandiaHaynesworth]

Wow! Great tips! My young students will love the idea of handwriting a label or a message and sewing it into their projects! Thanks again for sharing!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Your welcome! I'm glad your enjoyed it and happy you are going to use the idea.:)

[@kayluttrell5536]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@pennyclark1524]

Thanks so much so helpful you are a wealth of information!!!!!

[@fastquilter600]

Great ideas. I have used a photo of the couple (sometimes with me in the pic) and printed on muslin, and use that as a label. Writing on the white spaces.... I usually print it as a B&W pic.... makes a nice addition to the quilt.

[@missannie8012]

Forgive my newbie question, but what is muslin? I keep hearing about it in videos. I know its fabric but what makes it different from any other fabric?

[@agneslawrence2967]

Muslin is a versatile multi-purpose cloth used in dressmaking furniture polishing theatre sets n even medicine Its a healthy organic fabric n can be put to good use around the home w/out spreading chemical residue n most importantly is reusable n stops the cycle of waste Check uses www.biome.com.au/blog/how-to-use-muslin-cloth/

[@nancy-katharynmcgraw2669]

Usually left in the "natural" color, a very light beige, & less tightly woven a quilting cotton fabric is. Clothing sewers often use a muslin made "Pattern" if the outfit, for trying on the person, first. [Instead of a paper pattern.]is Quiltmakers have often use muslin as a backing fabric; mostly in the past. 1st Resource: Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave. It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. It gets its name from the city of Mosul, in Iraq, where it was first manufactured. In the 17th and 18th centuries Dacca in Bengal was regarded as producing the finest muslins. Wikipedia 2nd Resource: What is muslin fabric used for? Muslin is a versatile, multi-purpose cloth used in dressmaking, furniture polishing, theatre sets and even medicine. It is a healthy, organic fabric and can be put to good use around the home without spreading chemical residue and, most importantly is reusable and stops the cycle of waste.Apr 18, 2018 www.biome.com.au › blog

[@GeorgeneHug]

Very comprehensive. The only other method I can think of is the Transfer Artist Paper (TAP), on which you print, in reverse, and then iron onto any fabric. I have printed my name, very small, many times onto one sheet, and then I can cut them out as needed and iron onto quilt back, front or binding. I really enjoyed your presentation. You are a great speaker and instructor.

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Georgene Huggett Thank you very much, and THANK you for watching:)

[@carolynsuetoo]

I had never thought to label. Recently I came across some old labels that I had purchased meant to be used on the inside of clothes that I had made my daughter. I was thinking that a quilt could and should have a label sewn in. While watching another quilt video, I got a glimpse of this video and heading off to the right and was inspired to watch your video. I love all the label ideas. A hand made or computer generated personally inspired label is definetly the direction I wish to go. Thank you for sharing your beautiful quilts and labels.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Your welcome,thank you for joining along:)

[@phyllis26red]

Thank you for sharing I really like that ideal.

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Phyllis Chambliss Your welcome:)

[@sharihammel3644]

Thank you Laura.

[@DenisePoole-Closet-Crafts]

Thank you for another great video full of ideas. I do enjoy your videos they are always so welcoming. You asked for our label ideas I have a couple to share, like you said printing your own labels is a good way to make personal labels and putting them in the printer on freezer paper which has been cut to size is another way to print with out spray you just iron it on the paper and it goes in well. Another way I recently seen is a video label, you buy a pack of labels which have a QR code which you scan with your phone, video your message. The receiver of the quilt scans the code and sees your video message. It is called StoryPatches and they feature unique QR codes on each label. I like your corner idea and quilting the message in the quilt I thinks that is lovely idea.Thank you Laura for sharing.

[@SewVeryEasy]

What QR labels!!!! I have to look into that:) thanks for letting me know:)

[@menofairy]

Great video, very informative

[@June31946]

Do you realize that the Star Quilt was Finished on Sep 11 2001 the day that will always be remembered in the USA in New York when the towers came down.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Yes, I was sitting finishing the binding when the news came on. A day I will never forget. thanks for noticing

[@eileenfb1948]

Great ideas, thank you so much

[@SewVeryEasy]

your welcome and thanks for watching

[@goodapple2011]

Thank you so much for this informative and creative addition to quilt labeling.

[@SewVeryEasy]

thanks for watching

[@missannie8012]

I just made my first quilt but I've already finished the binding. I usually sew other things and I've used a small scrap of material cut in the shape of a heart. But I've only put in the receiver's name, never my own. Guess it's time.

[@markshane4164]

Thanks for a great tutorial

[@SewVeryEasy]

Mark Shane Thanks Mark

[@marilyncapehart663]

Thanks for sharing 12-10-19 I am New to Quilting

[@rosarobichaud9716]

Now, hubby has a longarm machine and HE prefers when people add their quilt to the back BEFORE he quilts it. He says its harder to remove the label, that way.... if, once again, you had sticky fingers. BTW.... I LOVE your videos, Laura!!!!

[@painting55]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thanks:)

[@MsTiLaJ]

Thank you for a very informative tutorial. I prefer to make my on fabric sheets because it seems the store brought ones are very stiff. Plus I like the versatility of making your own gives me☺️

[@SewVeryEasy]

Tina Johnson The bought ones are nice too, but I sometimes like the fabric to match. happy sewing day

[@countrysilkwormers28]

Thank you great information

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thanks you for watching.have a great day sewing:)

[@Elizamorena]

I just found out how I am labeling my quilts.. In the binding. Thanks!

[@SewVeryEasy]

I love that way too:)

[@eileenfb1948]

Spray basting didn't agree with my breathing so I experimented. Cut your fabric about five inches wide after starching it well. Lay it carefully on the same size piece of paper for support, no glue, adjust the paper tray to the correct size, and print. A wider piece of fabric tends to jam. Hope this is useful. It is very cheap! Thanks for all these tips, so helpful.

[@SewVeryEasy]

eileenfb1948 I will give it a try:D thanks for sharing

[@alljustducky]

@Eileenfb1948 After a bit of experimenting, I have had success printing on fabric by ironing on freezer paper, then trimming it to size before printing. Hope that helps with the breathing issues!

[@monicahaigh4490]

Thank you for sharing

[@SewVeryEasy]

thanks for watching:)

[@marietteforget7804]

Thanks a lot! 🌸🌸

[@SewVeryEasy]

thank you Vicky P

[@joyburns8279]

how do you make a all one color quilted quilt

[@chloefree9556]

You're videos are awesome! ! Thanks!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thank you for watching. I do love to be in the sewing room! How about you?and have a great day

[@chloefree9556]

I love being in my sewing room too! Wish I didn't have to go off to work. Lol!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Chloe Free This is why I love my job!

[@dbuggy1]

I have an embroidery machine but most of the time I opt not to use it for my labels. I like the personal touch. I write with a frixion pen what I want to say, it works better with cursive writing. Next I free motion quilt over what I have written. I make sure I secure a little on the beginning and end of each word. Its sill my writing , its still done by machine, but it is more personal :)

[@annaswanson434]

Wow some very nice labels ... how to choose though !

[@marciablum2089]

Thanks!

[@PopleBackyardFarm]

thank you for sharing this :)

[@SewVeryEasy]

Pople BackyardFarm thanks for watching:)

[@saraharrell1768]

Thank you

[@maxineschmidt1872]

Great Video

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Maxine Schmidt Thanks and thanks for watching

[@janetflint8202]

Can you do a video on making labels with your fancy fonts and stitches on your sewing machine? And how to center them on your label. Thanks you.

[@SparkyOne549]

I don’t have fonts on my machine, not everyone does.

[@Jill-hu6bv]

Thank you for the very informative video! I had been using the embroidery module for my Bernina 440QE for making quilt labels or embroidering my name/date into the quilt binding. I was just told by Bernina that they no longer support the Art Design software and that the Artlink software for my embroidery module DOES NOT have lettering. Seems pretty stupid. Guess I'll have to come up with a plan B that works for me without having to spend a lot of money.

[@heyjudequiltco]

I love your tutorials, thank you so much. Have you done a tutorial on the black and white quilt behind you, if not could you? I love it, and would love to make it

[@SewVeryEasy]

Sorry now on the quilt behind me. but it is on my list

[@alisonbartley3201]

Love This

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Alison Bartley Thanks:)

[@alisonbartley3201]

I have a question

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Alison Bartley OK

[@cgriffisteach1]

I love the quilt with the men’s suits! Would you please do a tutorial on it? Thanks, Laura!

[@SewVeryEasy]

I will put it on my list :) thank for asking

[@aileenhindley5964]

Thank you for sharing the 'bonded to paper' technique. My daughter was looking for a way to present her dissertation about 'the white shirt' and she wanted to print the words onto old shirts which she will reconstruct back into a new shirt. The dissertation is 6'000 words so we are not sure if it will work but you have given us a starting point.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Let me know how it works out for you, thanks for watching

[@marciafreeman3574]

Thank you for sharing the information, your suggestion to make your own paper & fabric to put through the printer is wonderful. One question, when you use the iron to set the ink, should it be a dry iron? Your instruction & different ideas- just awesome.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Thank you and yes use a dry iron:)

[@catherinearlene2858]

I love your videos! I notice on you baby lock there is a light coming from the back of your machine. Can you tell where you purchased and attached the light? Thank you. Cathy

[@hilarylewis7428]

Hi Laura, I was wondering if you had a pattern and could share what fabrics you used for the beautiful wedding quilt. Black, white, and pink were my wedding colors and I just adore the way you put them together. Thank you.

[@SewVeryEasy]

hilaryanne marie Thank you, I'm glad you like the quilt. I do not have the pattern. Sometimes I just quilt with out patterns. I made two wedding quilts almost the same, and I don't think the fabric is still available. I do reminder it was call "I Do" . I hope this helps.thanks for watching

[@julieg-az6210]

Thank you for presenting several good options! I’ve been trying to machine embroidery my labels but get more puckering than is acceptable to me. I’ve experimented a bunch of different variations on stitch density, needles, stabilizers etc. Do you have any suggestions?

[@leaharris8907]

Hi Julie. I don't have a problem with puckering on labels. I spray with Best Press spray and iron it 5 times on the wrong side of the fabric. This makes the fabric very firm. Then I use a medium weight tearaway as the stabiliser. Once embroidered, you can also respray on the wrong side with Best Press and iron again.

[@hanniaarrazola5749]

Exc!!!👏👏👏

[@JudyHart1]

On my last quilt, I printed the label on a white square, and incorporated that white square into the blocks on the backing fabric. Easy peasy. It was a 4.5" finished, but there was plenty of room for all the information. First time I've done it that way, I usually print with printer, and put into corner with binding.

[@SewVeryEasy]

I love putting the labels on the corners..that way you only have two sides to sew:) The printer is a great time saver too. thanks for watching

[@nancm5786]

Love your instructions about quilt labels. When you make your own paper with fabric to use in a printer, are you using a laser or inkjet type printer? Thank you so much.

[@loiscutting1716]

Your video mentioned a person could use an ink pen to write on a quilt label. I was in a library group 40 years ago that made a quilt to auction off and each person wrote our name on a block. Many years later we heard from the person who had won the quilt the fabric had deteriorated where we had written our names on the blocks to the point the names were no longer visible.

[@susansantare1208]

I want to sew a monogram and date on a wall hanging that has a self binding. I figured out how to type in the letters and numbers but don’t know how to start the sewing of the letters. I’ve done this before but have forgotten what I did.

[@nancywingo2129]

Would you instruct us on how to turn under and press the corners of the labels without the folded edges peaking out. My inside folder corners always seem to show. Thanks, love your videos!

[@SewVeryEasy]

Hi Nancy and yes I could do that:) thanks for asking. I'll put it on my list!

[@duanewiley631]

I was looking through your videos and came across this one and saw the quilt hanging in the background and was wondering if you did a tutorial on that quilt. If not, would you happen to know the pattern name as I think it would be perfect for fabric that I currently have and want to use. Thanks so much. Love your You Tube channel!

[@SewVeryEasy]

That quilt was done along time ago and I do not have the directions. Thanks for watching

[@lindasimpson2383]

I love your videos and have learned so much from you. When talking about making labels using your printer, it is my understanding that it must be an ink jet printer. I only have a laser printer. Is there a way to make that work for printing on fabric?

[@SewVeryEasy]

yes it must be an Ink jet, the reason it has " INK " lol a laser doesn't have ink :)

[@lindasimpson2383]

@@SewVeryEasy thank you

[@pwhitworth7546]

I use freezer paper to adhere the fabric, cut to size and run through the printer.

[@angelashannon81]

I'm wondering how many washes printed ink or magic markers would last through?

[@trudythomas5036]

This is a great tutorial.. Could you write on the paper you are coping to label before printing, so you dont have to actually write on label after printing.. (Hope that makes sense).. Also should you pre wash the material before making the label?

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Trudy Thomas Yes do wash your fabric first, the ink will stay better. I'm not too sure what you are meaning, but why not give it a try and let me know how it works out for you:) I think it would be good to know

[@marionbartley214]

Hello Laura, I found this label making video very interesting. and I love all the different ways you show. to apply a label, but I'm wondering when you say to hit the label. with a hot iron to set the ink? Does the label need to be covered with a pressing cloth. before the ironing? Or do I just hit the label with a hot iron. and the ink will not transfer to the iron?

[@SundaysChild100]

Thanks for this good information. Can you tell me the name of the quilt on the wall in back of you and is there a tutorial for it?

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Sheri Sterling I'm sorry I do not have a pattern for the quilt behind me, but I'm looking into it. Thanks for watching

[@scrappinvt]

Hi Laura, I enjoy your videos. What is that quilt behind you? Have you done a tutorial for that quilt?

[@SewVeryEasy]

No, not yet :)

[@delawurl5938]

Hi Laura, Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. I don't see a link to "how to make corner pocket-like labels" where would I find that?

[@SewVeryEasy]

I do not have on as I just did the video to view:)

[@CKane-ve2mj]

Is it ok to use the plastic backed freezer paper? Can’t find the wax backed kind anymore!

[@loisweimer1902]

thank you so much.again I was wondering about the quilt behind you.what is the pattern??

[@SewVeryEasy]

+Lois Weimer That seams to be a quilt a lot of people what, I will be working on it :) sorry no pattern yet

[@GrrannyH1]

Instead of using spray adhesive, you can iron your fabric onto freezer paper.

[@kristinkiel8696]

I enjoyed your tutorial. I usually just iron freezer paper to my fabric when I want to print out my label. But, freezer paper can't go through a laser printer because it will melt. Using your method of spraying on a stabilizer, can we send it through a laser printer? Just wondering...the freezer paper feeds great in my inkjet printer.

[@SewVeryEasy]

Yes a laser printer is a hot printer, another reason why I like just paper. I also find that the paper and spray works better because sometimes the freezer paper just doesn't stick as well. I have had no problem using a laser printer. Thanks for asking :)

[@rosarobichaud9716]

I've always used freezer paper... used to making Inklingo blocks (with Linda Franz).

[@mearis8133]

When printing on fabric with a printer, should an ink jet printer be used? Or a laser printer?

[@SewVeryEasy]

good question, store-bought ready to go fabric cannot be used in a laser because of the heat, but a jet ink printer can be used

[@annmoore-spencer841]

Great ideas! Does anyone know which stands up better to washing / laundering ---- laser printing, inkjet printing or permanent fabric marker?

[@SewVeryEasy]

Ann Moore-Spencer hummmmm I need to test this out! However a lot would have to depend on how it was washed. Good question:)

[@melindaostergren8115]

Inkjet printing is permanent but you need to let the cloth dry a bit after it’s printed and you must iron with a hot dry iron to set the ink.

[@melindaostergren8115]

Laser printing is not permanent AND it makes a big mess if the cloth gets wet. I’m one of others who knows this for a sad fact‼️ Sharpies bleed if they’re not heat set, and I’ve found they can fade over time. Pigmy Micron pens come in varied nib formats. Stabilize the fabric (there must be no starch or other sizing on the side you write on). After you finish your label. Press well with a hot dry iron. I’ve used both inkjet and Pigma inks and 20+ years later they’re still clear and easy to read.