What if you have A LOT of information for a quilt label?

How I usually label my quilts…

How do you label your quilts? I usually silk-screen my logo onto the backing (like below). I print my logo, add the year, and call that good. You can read all about that in this blog post: How to Screenprint a quilt label.

Why that wasn’t what I wanted this time…

But when I made my quarantine log cabin quilt, there was a LOT of information about all the choices in that quilt. Having piled so much meaning into the fabric choices in my quarantine log cabin quilt, and having written about each block as I made it, it seemed like all those words needed to be recorded IN THE QUILT. 

What I did instead…

I decided to screenshot each of my instagram posts about the quilt and make them into a label.

How I made my great big quilt label!

First, I screenshot each of my posts. Then, I imported them into photoshop where I collaged them together into a large image. You can collage images in a lot of photo apps. Finally, I uploaded the large image to Spoonflower. They printed the fabric for me.

The final product…

The result was a 34” by 42” piece of quilting cotton.  Rather than attach the label AFTER quilting, I decided to make it part of the backing by piecing it with some printed fabrics.  I pulled a variety of fabrics from my stash and pieced them around the label and sent that to my longarmer as the backing fabric.

I love how it turned out. It’s not as crisp as a printed piece of paper, but it’s legible and even if it becomes less legible over time, I think it will remind us that I did write down what every fabric choice meant and that information is online!