What's In A Label?

Do you remember this quilt? 

 I made it for my nephew James' wedding.  

It is now quilted and bound.  

Love that stripe binding cut on the bias! 

 I have found that using silk thread to do the hand sewing of the binding works so well.  

I also press the binding toward the hand sewing side before beginning and

 it seems to help with hand fatigue.

The last thing it needs is a label.  

I usually write on my quilts but a good friend always hand embroiders her labels.  

I thought this was a good idea so thought I would give it a try. 

 I don't know about you but my writing is far from legible and I can't keep my words on a straight line.  So I came up with this great idea.  

I wrote what I wanted on the label using my computer and a font I liked. 

 I sized it to work for the label (ie not too small to stitch) and printed it.  

I then cut out a piece of white fabric to size and using a light box, transferred the words to my fabric. 

 I chose my floss colors and did the embroidery and TA-DA perfect!

I laid it face down on some scrap batting to press it so the lettering sticks up, 

you can see the batting near the top of the photo.  

I am thinking about putting some of the blue and green squares around the outside and 

then stitching, RST, to another piece of white.  

I will leave an opening to turn and once I do that there are no raw edges.  

Last will be to hand sew it to the back of the quilt.  

I am going to gift this on Saturday and I can't wait!

Here is the happy couple after they were married on June 1st!!

~XOP~