Inscriptions For Hand-Made Gift Quilts
Sayings and Poems to Put on Gift-Quilt Labels for Any Occasion
Jan 19, 2008
When you create a hand-made quilt for a friend, baby, wedding, or special occasion, choose a message that expresses all the love and care that went into your gift.
You've put your skill, your creativity, and many hours of work into a hand-made quilt as a gift for someone special. Now it's time to label the quilt with a message that will accompany it for all the years it will be used.
On any gift label, you'll want to include the recipient's name(s) and the date of the special occasion. Then you can choose from the list of phrases and quotations that will let the recipient know how much feeling you lavished on this special hand-made gift.
All Occasion Inscriptions
- When you sleep under this quilt, you sleep under a blanket of love
- From my hands... to your heart
- The best kind of sleep beneath Heaven above/ Is under a quilt, handmade with love
- May this quilt warm your body and comfort your soul
- Memories stitched with love
- When you use this quilt, remember me
- I wish you health/I wish you wealth/ I wish you gold in store / I wish you Heaven after death/ What could I wish you more?
- I count the stitches line by line/ And watch the thread record the time
- Love and memories we impart/ To quilt the fabric of the heart
- May you be free from cares and woes/ When under this quilt you seek repose
Friends
- A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart
- Good friends, like quilts, never lose their warmth
- Our friendship (or our family) is a patchwork of love
- Our friendship is sewn with love and measured by kindness
- My friendship quilt
- Friendship, like a well-made quilt, stands the test of time
- Our friendship is a tapestry/ Woven through the years/ With threads of joy and laughter/ Happiness and tears
- Many faces, many smiles/ Remember me across the miles
Husband or Wife / Anniversary
- Love is the thread that binds us together
- Like our (my) love, this quilt was made to last
Wedding
- May this union be blessed with love and happiness
- Joined together in friendship, united forever in love!
- New love in bloom now fills your life/ As you become husand and wife
- Love, honor, and cherish
- There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved
- "Love is patient and kind/ Love is not jealous or conceited or proud/ Love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable/ Love does not keep a record of wrongs/ Love is not happy with evil, but rejoices in the truth/ Love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13
- "Take spring when it comes, and rejoice. / Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. / Take love when it comes, and rejoice." Carl Ewald
- "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott
- "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- "Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." Jean Anouilh
- "To love someone deeply gives you strength./ Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
- "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." Roy Goodman
- "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." Martin Luther
- "Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar." Robert Frost
Baby
- A package of joy, a bundle of bliss/ This quilt for baby was sealed with a kiss
- Blessed are the children, for they shall inherit the quilts!
- Ten little fingers/ Ten little toes/ The sweetest of smiles/ And a cute little nose/ All these add up/ To a wonderful thing--/ A baby--/ The greatest gift/ Life can bring.
Inscriptions Can Help Hand-Made Quilts Become Part of History
As the years go by, memories fade. It's all too easy to forget why and how a quilt came to be, especially as it passes from one generation to the next. A detailed inscription can help your quilt reach across time and provide a valuable record both of the person who made it and the people whose lives it celebrates.
Thanks to Erin at www.aprairiehome.com for providing some of the quotes.
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