Sign & Date Your Quilts
When I began making quilts, I never thought to sign and date them, whether with a label or by embroidering my name. As I look at old quilts and wonder about those in my family, I wish there was some way to tell who made them and when.
This has made me realize the importance of placing some method of recognition on quilts and hangings, whether on the back or a corner of the front. Eventually I ordered tags that I stitched on the back. However, a more permanent method is embroidering ones name and the date of completion on the fabric. Or you can use permanent inks and calligraphy.
Make sure your quilts and patchwork projects are signed to add to their significance and enable family to know, years from now, that they were made by you. They dont have to be intricate works of art, simply whatever youve created.
Do you have a unique way to identify your quilts?
© 2006
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2 opinions for Sign & Date Your Quilts
Karen-s Quilts
Jan 9, 2006 at 8:26 pm
My wife is a quilter and I was doing a little bit of exploring to see what kind of blogging there was about quilting. Noticing the title of this post I thought I’d check it out.
Karen sews a label on each of the quilts that she makes. Her label is on cloth that she’s put through the printer. She not only puts her name and date on the label, but provides a description of the number of hours she put into it, where she found the pattern if it is unique or what she did in the designing of an original, as well as washing instructions and more. Of course some quilts are going to have more than others. The Dragon Quilt on her web pages has a pretty involved label.
Mike (m i k e @ p d d o c . c o m)
Mary Emma
Feb 20, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Thanks, Mike, for sharing what Karen does for labels. That sounds like a really neat way to record information about her quilts.
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