Making Quilt Labels With Freezer Paper

Hints tips using freezer paper.

Making quilt labels with freezer paper.

How to attach your fabric label to a quilt. Backing your fabric with freezer paper makes printing on fabric almost as easy as printing on copy paper. Stabilize the fabric and create guidelines for words with freezer paper. Here s a quick how to on that if you need.

Using wax paper or freezer paper when you sew. Peal off the freezer paper. Many quilt styles are associated with particular periods of time and the quilt label will be assistance in record keeping. Cut out a sheet of muslin freezer paper to measure 8 1 2 by 11 inches.

I chose to center each line and to make the names larger than the other text. Peal off the freezer paper. Use a ruler and a thick black marker to draw evenly spaced lines on the freezer paper s dull side. Find a font you like and enter the text line by line.

Quilt shows typically require a lot more information on a quilt label than you would normally put on a quilt for example your address. How to attach your quilt label. These generic quilt. Iron the muslin fabric to the waxy side of the freezer paper.

Press the shiny side of the freezer paper to the fabric s wrong side with a hot dry iron. Make your own customized quilt labels with this tutorial for printing quilt labels with freezer paper. How to make your own quilt labels with freezer paper and ink jet printer. Easy to follow tips and tricks for making a quilt label.

This tutorial is best for quilts that will not be washed frequently because the ink may not be colorfast unless you treat your fabric with bubble jet first. How to make quilt labels first create the label in word. Cut all loose muslin threads from the edges of the paper or they will jam the printer. You can use this printable it s for organizing your sewing room but they could be used as quilt labels just the same quilting labels printable.

Because i prefer not to waste any paper backed pre treated label fabric i often put text for a generic label or two on the same page. Now that you have that down it s time to make a few quilt labels with this method. To do so cut a piece of freezer paper bigger than the label. 1 the freezer paper can be used many many many times over.

Print your own quilt label tutorial to start cut a piece of freezer paper and light colored fabric slightly larger than a standard piece of printer paper in the us that s 8 1 2 x 11.