Labelling options for TAQ donation quilts

There have been some questions lately about what options are available for labelling our TAQ quilt donations.

At some point early on we decided as a group that each of our quilts needed to have a label and to save us the bother of making our own we did a search for labels that we could have printed at a reasonable cost.  I found some beautiful labels at Choke Cherry Quilts.  Unfortunately, the shipping was prohibitive and now the company is no longer making labels.

Shortly after that search I found a Youtube tutorial on how to make similar labels yourself using T-shirt transfer paper, satin ribbon and a home printer.  This was the result:

Two sided label to be sewn into the quilt binding.

Some of these labels are still available and I can make more, but I don't believe any have been used except one or two.  They are just basic, plain Jane labels but they have all the required info and are easy to attach.

A second option is to use one of the many labels we have collected that are occasionally available preprinted on quilting cotton.  Here are a few examples:

Preprinted, hand-written labels from our stash

Despite the big selection of these labels that we have it is surprisingly difficult to find one that matches the quilt and is big enough for the necessary information, which is:

        Made by the Tuesday Afternoon Quilters (or The TAQ's) 2024

                                       Burnaby, BC

                           Machine wash, warm/cold

                           Tumble dry, medium heat

                                        Do not iron

It's a lot of information but we decided that the care instructions were important, including the Do not iron, as the texture of a quilt changes quite a bit after it is washed and we do not want anyone to feel they have ruined the quilt by washing it. 

Some of us have just resorted to making our own labels:

So, the choice is yours but if you really don't want to label your quilt it won't be a problem finding someone in the group to do it.  At one point we had a lot of unlabelled quilts in our collection and lots of our members volunteered and got them done.