Honestly, I am the last person in the world who should be lecturing anyone about putting a label on a quilt. Very few of my quilts have them. I am working on changing that fact.
One of the things I realized when I put three of the quilts in my guild’s show in March was that the quilts make little sense unless you have an idea of the image that inspired them. For the show, I brought the quilts but also printed the pictures out at CVS and hung the pictures right next to the quilts so people could see the inspiration. I decided that any labels I put on these quilts should include the original image.
I still have some printable fabric left from back when I had the idea that I was going to print all of the images for the national parks quilt on my trusty HP printer. Using two images plus text per page, I printed all of the images, along with where they were taken, when, and by whom, plus my name and the year I completed the quilt. (I also used a couple of small bits of leftover plain fabric to hand write the labels for my grandmother’s quilt and the national parks quilt.)
Yesterday, at Slow Sew with the ladies from my guild, I sewed five of the labels on. There are still several more – the national parks quilt, the abstract iceberg quilt, and the Crater Lake quilt are all on my walls, and I haven’t taken them down (yet) to sew their labels on. And I pre-emptively made labels for the Acadia sunrise quilt and one of the quilts I’m planning to finish by September. So those will need to go on at some point as well. But I am making progress!
