How to Label Your Handmade Quilts

Adding a Label to Your Quilt is Worth the Extra Time and Effort.

© Christine Mann

Hand-Made Label Gives Your Quilt a Personal Touch, Stacy Chamness

Quilts get lost, stolen, sometimes even forgotten. A good label will identify your quilt and help tell its unique story to generation after generation.

Your quilt is almost done! You see the finish line ahead. Do you really want to take the extra time to put on a label now? Absolutely. In just an hour or two, you can create a permanent record that your quilt will carry with it as long as it survives. Anyone who receives, buys, or uses it in the future will thank you for recording the unique facts that make each quilt a bit of living history.

What should you put on the quilt label? You can stick with the basics, or create a label that's a miniature work of art in itself.

Essential Information

Optional Items to Include

HOW TO CREATE A QUILT LABEL

There are lots of different ways to label a quilt. Here are some of the most popular:

Place the label where it won't show if the quilt is hung up on a wall or laid out on a bed. Many quilters like to put it on the bottom right corner of the quilt’s back side. To discourage a potential thief from removing the label, sew it firmly to the backing fabric before you assemble the quilt, then hand- or machine-quilt right through the label.


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Hand-Made Label Gives Your Quilt a Personal Touch, Stacy Chamness
       


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