The Final Stitch Episode 6: Labeling Your Quilt
Вставка
- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Welcome to our sixth episode of The Final Stitch! You've asked for an episode all about labeling... how do you label a quilt? How do you attach a label? What do you write on a label? Natalie shows us three ways to label quilts as you're finishing them, and she even shows how to label quilts that have been finished for years!
Shop our selection of quilt labels here: www.missouriquiltco.com/colle...
Find out more here: www.missouriquiltco.com/blogs...
Don't miss a single episode of The Final Stitch! Subscribe to our channel here: bit.ly/SubscribeMSQC_yt
-- About The Final Stitch --
Are you finally ready to finish your beautifully pieced quilt top? Learn how to add just the right finishing touch to your projects with Natalie Earnheart of Missouri Star Quilt Co. Answering real questions from real quilters, Natalie breaks down directions like “quilt and bind as desired” into bite-sized lessons to help you complete your quilts. Along the way, you’ll also learn plenty of easy tips and tricks to make finishing your projects a pleasure instead of a pain. She’ll teach you everything from sandwiching your quilt with just the right batting and backing to taking the final stitch!
-- About Missouri Star --
@Missouri Star Quilt Company provides free quick and easy sewing, quilting, and craft tutorials because we love to create. We offer these free online quilting classes to teach and inspire everyone-even the beginner. Precut fabric is used in most of our projects, and we have lots of tips and tricks to make quilting fast and simple.
Missouri Star Quilt Company provides totally FREE quick and easy quilting, sewing, and craft tutorials every single week because we love to help you create! Follow along with these fun online classes to learn more about quilt design and quilting techniques. It’s an inspiration for everyone-from beginners to advanced quilters. To make quilting easier than ever before, precut fabrics are used as the building blocks of most projects. These quilt fabrics like layer cakes, charm packs, and jelly rolls make textile patchwork as easy as pie! Plus, we offer quilt patterns and quilting supplies along with gorgeous quilt material to simplify your experience. We hope you enjoy our quilting tutorials. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a single one!
#missouristarquiltco #howtoquilt #quilt
I like to use vintage handkerchiefs for my labels. So many of them have lovely embroidery on them that I can include.
What a great idea -:))
What a fantastic use of them. I recently found a old stained pillowcase that my grandmother had embroidered. The embroidery is intact, I may copy your idea and use it as part of the label on a quilt for family.
What a good idea! Now I know what I'll use some of my grandmother's old handkerchiefs for, passing them on to family.
What a wonderful idea! 💜
Old doilies too!!
"your handwriting is loved by the people you love" what a beautiful thought! I have trouble with my labels mostly b/c I don't like my handwriting. Minute 8:18 of this video has cured me of my handwriting issues, and will make me enjoy "my" handwritten labels. I have kept letters from my Grandma and Mom, who have passed away, and love to look and touch their handwriting. I never gave much thought to the quilt label being so personal. Thank you. (also good job Natalie)
Natalie, you do such a great job of explaining things in an easy to understand manner. You're getting more comfortable with the camera and it shows in your beautiful smile! Thanks so much and I look forward to learning more!
I love these ideas, and Natalie you have such a nice, fun-yet-soothing manner. I thoroughly enjoy all of the videos, so please, please keep up the good work!
The corner triangle is my favorite way to do a label. I usually add a coordinating binding to the top of the label and then hand stitch the top down.
Also,attaching small scraps of the quilt fabric, for repairing in years to come, is a good idea also.😄
Kind of like the extra buttons on the nicer clothes 👍🏼🥰
Natalie, The Final Stitch is my new favorite video series. I love your style and the information is invaluable. Thanks for doing these!
Me too!
Me too!
Me too!
Dear Natalie, You are so affirming! Yous positive attitude and caring shine
through in what you do. I truly appreciate your kind guidance as we quilters make our way through the intricate patterns and loose threads of life. Anne Thomas
I made quilts for all my grandchildren last Christmas and put a picture of each of us together and a poem on the label. I created it on the computer and printed it on iron on transfer paper on white fabric.
Great idea
That’s a lovely idea. I’m sure they will cherish those quilts
I piece my lables in the backing fabric so that when it's quilted I know that lables will never come off. It's double secured.
Thank you Natalie for this tutorial. You have inspired me to put labels on my quilts. You are a wonderful teacher. Please keep bringing us more tutorials.
Perfect timing! Just quilting my second quilt (a wall hanging; the first was just a scrap experiment that I'm using as a sewing machine pad). Binding and labeling is next, and I was dithering about how on earth to bind it. You covered everything I need to know! Thank you so much. Your videos are just what this 78 yr old beginner needs to do it right the first time! - Fran
3sewi`g
I am really enjoying these videos with Natalie. Thank you for taking the time to create videos to answer how to questions from quilters.
I love the conversation in the background, it makes me feel like I am there with you.
Your voice is lovely Natalie.
I really enjoy this series. I confess, I missed Jake on Live, but I adore the way Liz laughs and the great way she interacts with you all. I also love the zoom ins on the sewing machine/needle area to get a bird's eye view of the process.
Natalie, this is so helpful because I am labeling my very first quilt! Thank you so much! I’ve watched and learned so much by watching MSQC videos when the Pandemic began. I have four more quilt tops at the longarmer! I’m so excited and proud of myself. We do need to love ourselves and each other more. 💕💕💕💕💕
Natalie this is such an important part of finishing the quilt in my opinion. I wish that the quilts my grandmothers made had their name and date hand written on them somewhere. Even if it's a quilt for me I still put my name and date on the back. My mil recently gave me my husband's baby quilt with no tag. Fortunately she gave me the information and I dated it the year my husband was born.
I love your style of teaching and explaining things so well. I hope that there are many more Final Stitch Episodes! Thanks so much. ps I like your voice and Natalie's!
I have decided to go back and label quilts my grandmother made for me so future generations know their history.
@@nickihinton5062 Even though I don't know the dates, I am putting her name and the city/state on the ones my grandmothers made
I also put that info on my labels as well as who it's been made for. Also put the town and state I live in. Add the quilt design on there too.
i had my kids date anything they made, i do it too, it's fun to see the date. but oddly i made quilts for my grandkids and didn't label them, new to quilting i didn't think i could do that i guess
Great video and comments. I press a piece of freezer paper behind the label fabric to stabilize it some while writing. This really helps when using fine point pens. For longer messages, I mark lines on the freezer paper to help keep writing lines straight. Then remove the freezer paper before securing label to quilt.
Do you heat set the writing? I used a micron pen on one and it faded after I washed it and was wondering if that would have helped.
@@jhwilliams6550 I do heat set after writing.
This is so helpful! And I'm honored you answered my question :D I'm loving this series, thank you Natalie!
I love these tutorials from Natalie. She is very informative and gives all the details that you may need. I would love to see a video on choosing fabric colors that are not in a precut to make a quilt. Something about what colors will stand out in the foreground and what colors stay in the background. Thanks guys....see you soon, and keep quilting
Thank you Natalie for this simple way to attach labels. Someone else posted how they didn't like their handwriting well I don't like mine, you gave me a different way to look at it, now I label all my quilts.
This was great, Natalie! I love your style, and you present the information in such an easy-to-understand way. Thanks!!
Natalie, your series is a great addition to the MSQ tutorials. I relate well to your way of doing things. I sew my labels into the corner when I sew on the binding, but I need to try out the folded triangle - good idea! I look forward to more videos from you.
This makes me want to put labels on some my recent quilts to "track" my progress with creating the quilts. Thanks for the information.
This came at the perfect time. I always label my quilts but as I'm attaching binding today to a wall hanging I debated whether or not to add a label. Was just pulling out fabric to cut for a folded triangle label when your video popped up. As I'm watching you decided to keep the label very simple...wall hanging name, person gifting it to, Christmas 2020 and my name. Easy peasy! I sew my binding on the back and then over to the front so it's very easy to sew the label into the corner as I'm attaching the binding. Thank you Natalie. Have really been enjoying this series.
Love your new videos. thank you for going over all the basics that we really don't think much about. I have learned so much from all of you at Missouri Star. You are all awesome.
Just the very thing I needed - thanks so much, Natalie!! I love the variety of methods you presented because I have some finished quilts to label and some in-progress quilts to label. And now I know how!
I love listening to Natalie!!
Awesome job Nathalie! I can really see the growth as you are getting more comfortable in front of the camera. Such great tips!
Love what you are doing . Thanks so much for all that you share with us.
You just have to love Natalie. She is very easy to follow along to.Her information is so useful and she is to the point.Go Natalie!!
Natalie, you have the most beautiful smile! I hope you find many, many occasions to brighten lives with it!
You seem to be reading my mind this is a step I had forgotten and will now finish off the ones I had ready to gift, I am thoroughly enjoying these tutorials great work and enjoy seeing your confidence grow Natalie
I use my Word program to work on label. I bring in a picture of the recipient and type all the information below that. I size the label. I print the label out on the fabric made for ink jet printers. Then I either put fusiable on the back and fuse to quilt and stitch it down. Or I print the same way and only stitch the label down. My nieces and nephews love their picture on there quilts.
I do the same thing.
@@ginaordonez9371 easy peasy right
What a lovely idea to print the recipient's photo on the label 👍. I definitely will do that on m next labels, too.
@@cosia5072 I’ve been doing this for 13 years. The first one everyone loved it. It was for my young niece. Her older brother saw the picture label and wanted one on his quilt. So he chose the picture and I put it on. He loved it.
The ink jet ink wash out?
I like to use two pieces of fabric, sew right sides and turn,...
I also love my machine that can stitch the lettering for me. Then I hand stitch all around all 4 edges to apply. I like the corner idea! Thanks! A laundry marker is much better than a regular marker. It lasts longer when washed a lot.
Just found this. Thank you for answering all my questions about labeling the doll quilts I made for my great granddaughters.
Thanks Natalie. I have not been labeling my quilts and wish that I had. So good to see your tips and ideas on how to go back and label quilts that are done and then begin labeling as I make them going forward. I have to say that I really love that little triangle in the corner caught in the binding. I think that is going to be my go to label.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you for all the wonderful tips!! Please keep making these videos. You are doing an awesome job!!😃
Great idea, Natalie, for your triangle corner label! Thank you!
Super helpful! I'm about to bind a quilt made from African fabrics purchased by my dear friend's beloved mother who passed away. I've never put a label on any of my quilts before, but this seemed like the moment to change that.
You have such a soothing voice and I can definitely see Jenny’s mannerisms I you!
You are fabulous! I've been quilting for a few years and am still perfecting my skill. This was great tutorial, keep 'em coming!
Thanks Natalie!! I absolutely loved ❤️ this episode of your Great tutorials on The Final Stitch!!! I've always wondered if I should put labels on my quilts, you have given me confidence to do it!! Thanks!!
If you have a hard time writing on the fabric, try putting masking tape or freezer paper on the back side to stop any stretching. Thanks for all the great info. I love watching your show.
Oh, this was so great to watch. I love that people want to document what they made, who they made it for and what occasion if there was one. I think it is so important to document your creativity so going forward future generations will know what you did and why. I love making quilts and sometimes there is no special reason other than I liked the pattern and wanted the challenge to do something different. These also need to be documented. Great video! Thanks!
I loved this episode. It had a lot of information we needed. We need to keep and record for our loved ones down the road. I love everything about your company. From tutorials, demos, and of course, your fabric. I love that I can re-watch every tutorial many times. It is so appreciated!
Just found this! Thank you so much, Natalie! I've only added a label to a couple of my quilts but you made this look so easy, I'll be adding them to all of my quilts from now on!
Just rewatched your video episode 6, I've always typed my labels & printed on printer paper, then sew it on. At 80 my fingers don't work very well & difficult to hold on the needle...I so much enjoyed this video for other ways to do this...Thank you! You are a blessing.
Natalie is very down to earth and calm. Makes the videos more appealing. :)
My first quilts have no label but since I am giving to family now, I make a label. I never thought writing it in my own hand would make a difference. Now I may change from embroidering a label to a hand written one. Thanks for the tips.
Great information. I was going to embroider my message on the quilt I just finished for my granddaughter. I was dreading it because I'm not really that good at embroidering but thanks to your video I've decided to use a Sharpie instead. It will save me lots of grief. Thanks again!
I have a subscription to Sweetwaters label club where they are personalized to your own name (you can also buy them individually or by sheet). However - I iron them on and then sign or write an additional message with the micro pen or Sharpie so it has a cute label and a personalization. I agree where at about minute 9:30 Natalie says your handwriting is *your handwriting* even if it’s shaky, messy, etc. It’s a masterpiece and a piece of art made with love and will have that history to it.
I also like the iron in nature of a label where you can put it on the front or back or make it part of the design. I have seen others comments about printing their own labels and personalizing, it’s amazing how many options you have with such a little but important thing like a label.
Natalie, you are so chill! Really enjoyed this series, thanks for making them.
I cross stitched a label put t-shirt stablizer on the back then, used it as part of the pieced backing.
That's for these great ideas for labels. You're on point on loving yourself even a little. I like your voice, since it's very calming.
Great information and demonstration Natalie!!
I’ve used a very fine sandpaper under my fabric when using the Micron pens. It keeps the point of the pen from sticking and pulling/stretching the fabric =)
I once made a quilt as a special gift, but I realized too late that forgot the label. So I picked out the stitches far enough to open up my binding, and then I chose contrasting thread and a nice small font on my machine to stitch the information on the part of the binding that would so be on the back of the quilt when I turned the binding to the back. It turned out so nice! I typically use a triangle for my labels, though.
I was just thinking I might try using fmq to include the label in the quilting itself and I came across this comment...even better! I think I will try this on my fil's quilt ❣️
love the triangle idea for a label! So easy. I am bad about taking the time to do the label, but I am one that keeps a quilt journal with pictures of completed projects. The triangle method will be an easy way to remember to do a label even if it is just with my name and a date.
Same
Really love that idea with the label in the corner Thanks 😊
This was so lovely! Your handwriting is gorgeous. Thank you for the video. I've made a lot of quilts, but most have no label because they were just for me. It is nice to know you can write anything you want on that label. There are NO RULES! Hugs, Joy
I love the pre printed pretty labels you can buy as yardage & cut out & write on.I tend to use them. Attach them.on all sides of the Shape onto the backing fabric. Then they are quilted into the quilt as you FMQ thry become part of the quilt.
I NAME each of my quilts as I tend to do art quilts.
Natalie you do a wonderful job with tutorials.
I learned alot. I really like the corner labels too. thanks Natalie
I have often wonder about a proper way to attach a label and where to attach them. So, this is a great tutorial. I took lots of notes. Many thanks.
Thank you Natalie! Another great segment. I’ve never put a label on my quilts, but maybe I should now that I see how easy they can be.
I put labels on similarly, however, I stitch mine when I put the binding on, not as a secondary step.
Going to go back and find Natalie's other "Final Stitch's"! Fun to watch. Thanks!
Your program on labeling quilts could not have come at a better time! I have never been satisfied with how I label quilts. I didn’t want to purchase a fancy already premade, fill in the blank label. And I also didn’t know the best way or a way that I liked, to attach the label. Until I saw your program! Thank you for your common sense beautiful technique for attaching a label in the corner. Even though I had already bound my quilt, I picked out the stitches for the corner of the binding, attached the label that I had already written on, re-stitched the corner of the binding, and whipstitched the loose end to the quilt. Oh I am finally satisfied! Thanks again Missouri star quilt company and Natalie!
Loving the final stitch. I'd love to know about choosing walking foot quilting patterns for common blocks/ charm quilts etc.
I think it’s good to use your own handwriting as the person you’re making it for may well know and prefer that, but I have also popped it into my embroidery machine and done it quickly that way.
Thank you so much. I have been making quilts for years and never labeled one until now. I was so unsure. Now i will have fun with no stress. Again thank you.
Very helpful, Natalie! Thank you!
This was great information. I love the triangle label. I never thought to put it into the binding. I've never labeled my quilts but will do it now.
Another great episode. I hadn't seen the triangle in the corner before! Thanks
I keep a quilt journal on my computer, with a picture and bit of information about each quilt. However, I just recently started labeling my quilts, I had never bothered before. Your video was really helpful as I haven't decided on the method I like best, and it gave me some good suggestions, especially about going back and labeling some already finished quilts.
I sew appreciate your clear, calm manner of teaching! Thanks a lot! 😉
Very good tips Natalie, I usually do them this way as well, my friend Dolores, taught me to put them in the binding, believe it or not I used to sew them in all around...LOL
I love your videos Natalie. You have the perfect soothing voice for your job!
Hi Natalie, thanks so much for this video, I have just purchased some quilt labels and was unsure what to write. It’s great to think items I’ve made will be enjoyed after I’m gone! I am labelling some advent calendars for the family this Christmas time. Keep safe and quilt on 🥰
I love your style and great information!! I’e been quilting for over 45 years and I still find new ideas on your videos =)
This was so timely for me! I've been experimenting with a few labels, but I love the ideas you just gave, especially the folded square. Thank you so much, Natalie. I am really enjoying The Final Stitch episodes!
I like the camera looking directly at the machine/piece of work when you sew. That is a great angle and added benefit.
a signature is a touch of your dna. Like fingerprints, they are unique to one , I can look at very old pictures and turn them over and know who wrote the note. On most quilts I just sign them with a date, on special occasions I just put a bit more information so in 50 years anyone will know what when and who the quilt belonged to. I just started labeling quilts 6 or 8 years ago when we found a quilt in a resale shop and the label told a story. made my decision to do that documentation. good show. also, a few years ago i did a bunch of bday quilts the labels were made on my sewing machine and there was a lot of information on each, the quilts were for a 45, 50 & a 70 th birthday.. SO important and fun to play with the monogram and lettering available.
Natalie is a rock star. I love her videos.
Thanks Natalie, that was interesting. I always embroider my labels, using colours to match the front of the quilt. Cheers from Melbourne
I made a wedding quilt last year and attached 2 labels. One corner had the to and from, etc and the second one had care instructions. I also attached photo fabric framed to look like a photo of the save the date engagement photo card of the couple and wedding invitation. The bride is a graphic design artist and it really personalized the quilt.
Great video of the techniques. I have seen some quilts with embroidered binding. Beyond my skills at this time.
I really enjoy watching you in the tutorials Natalie, love to see more of you and your projects and how you create a pattern or design
Another fantastic episode, Natalie! Thanks, and please keep them coming! ❤️
Your hand writing is good. This video has been great thanks
Excellent video! I got an answer to all of the questions I had about diy quilt labels....THANK YOU!!!
I gift so many baby quilts & lap quilts & I never put labels. I think I will from now on. Thanks for this video. I really didn't know what's best to write with. I thought maybe paint pens for fabric. This makes it easier; )))
Thanks! Loved watching this!
Thank you so much Natalie! I started quilting during the pandemic and thought my only option was printed labels online ( very limiting!). But you have simplified this for me in an easy and fun way! Love all your tutorials!!
Thank you Natalie!!! Heat N Bond seem to be the way to go!!!
Thank you for giving me easier ideas for backs!
I am new to quilting and there is soooo much to learn, I love it. Thank you for this video and greetings from the Netherlands
I do label most of my quilts. Thank you for showing a way to sew them with the binding and the encouragement to hand write on them. I will use this on the quilt I am working on.
I use wonder under and fasten the label down then add the binding to the front. That allows me to hold the label in place while attaching the binding. I works great.
Thank You, Natalie! I've never labeled my projects, but now I have so many ideas!!!
Thanks for all the good info! I've been making crumb blocks and putting together lap quilts to donate to a local nursing home for the residents during this time of isolation . I was wondering about labeling and you answered my questions. Thanks again.
Love your ideas for labels….especially the triangle! I just finished a quilt for one of my granddaughters…AND FORGOT to add my handwritten label!!