The Quilter's of 3rd & Vine

Yesterday I attached the Label to the quilt that our Quilting group just finished making to be raffled off at our Women's Holiday Festival at the 1st Baptist Church in November here in Hudson, WI.   

 

Our Finished Quilt for the raffle at our Women's Holiday Festival Sale in November of 2012

 The Label here contains info on Quilt care

a warm combination of plaids  & Stars in a variety of colors

Pattern is Through the Woods designed by Michele Scott for McCall's Quick Quilts, Winter 1998/99

 

About Us: We are a group of men & women who love to quilt. We started in the winter of 2010.  Some of us have been quilting for a long time like our Teacher and Mentor Elaine and fellow quilters Frank & Pam.  Others of us are new to the craft like Gwen and Husband & helper Bob, and  longtime sewer like myself, who wanted to learn how to quilt.  We are an open group and welcome all to our group.  We meet weekly to learn about creating & sew our quilts.  No matter what role you see yourself in we would love to have you join our group if you live in Hudson WI area. 

Check out my article on labeing your quilts

Quilt labels for your finished projects

an example of a qult label

Labeling your finished projecst are so important so when I finished my latest quilt I googled quilt lables and found some very nice freebies. One is on Connecting Threads "Quilt with us" Community page under freebies.  They have a good choice of lables to choose from and give good directions.  I saved my label choice as a jpeg then copied it into photo shop elements program and added my Text boxes with the Name of the Quilt, Pieced and Quilted by, Date Finished & Quilt Size and Quilted for.  Resized each to my liking and then printed it out on a Fabric sheet that was color fast and prepared for your printer.  You could even include instructions for care.  You can prepare the fabric yourself by washing a piece of muslin then when adhering it to a piece of freezer paper.  Ths site Infarrantly Creative gives instructions on how to prepare your fabric for accepting printer inks.  The Quilters Cache  also has some history of Labels, infor about preparing fabric for printing and a choice of lables you can print out too. To find more options you can google quilt labels. For more great ideas on Quilting and Sewing visit me on Pintrest