How to print your own fabric labels tutorial

Over on Patchwork Posse.com  {membership sewing group} we were lucky enough to have Mary Jo from Patchwork Palette design us some painted quilt labels.   She paints her quilts girls– not piece! I love that!  Check out her goods here.  Mary Jo's blog and say a 'hello'.

Anyways— since she gave us the labels– we are supposed to print them off and put them on the back of our quilts. 

How do you do this? How do you print your own fabric labels?  Well, How about a quick tutorial on it.

1)  iron your fabric — muslin is ok. to the shiny side of freezer paper.

2)  cut to paper size…8 x 11.  I found that laying a normal piece of paper on top and cutting around the edges was the easiest.

3) stick it into the printer.  Print off the label in color or b/w.  The freezer paper is a bit thinner and still a little too pliable for the printer and can get jammed.  I found that I had to put a piece of cardstock on the backside {touching the freezer paper} and taping in 3 places along the top edge.  That way the fabric + freezer paper didn't roll away from the cardstock.  Just a thought.

Make sure that your paper and fabric are placed in the right place.  I place the fabric down in the printer because it rolls it up and prints on that bottom side. Just pay attention, so you don't drive yourself batty trying to figure it out.

Peal off the freezer paper.

4)  Iron all 4 sides under.  Hand stitch to the back of your quilt.

5)  Use a sharpy marker to write the information down.  Of course mine has mysteriously dissapeared— so no words here.  But I love it still the same.

Thanks Mary Jo for sharing your talent.   We are totally lucky to have your artwork on the back of our quilts!

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