Every once in awhile someone in the blogosphere will put up one of those tremendous posts that truly lights up the world and makes us all shout out a hearty “that’s the best post ever”…… at least for the week. I ran across one of those this week and I just wanted to share it with all of you.
It is on the subject of labeling. I know sometimes it just seems like too much work to add a label when you are so very tired of working on that quilt for days (or years), but in the long run it is important for many reasons. Some historical, some just for security. (How many countless quilts have been lost because they didn’t have a label indicating to whom they belonged?)
When I first started quilting, I was adamant about putting labels on everything I made, and I took great care to create extremely detailed labels. In the last few years, though, I have been creating quilts at much higher rate, and I just don’t have the time for that. (Okay, this is what I tell myself, at least.) But when you think about it, after all that time spent on the actual quilt, what more would it take to label it, Lazy Bones? (A little self-talk here, of course!)
So, Katy Jones of I’m A Ginger Monkey wrote this incredible post with a WHOLE lot of links to various OTHER blog posts discussing labels and a Flickr page and some Pinterest collections entirely devoted to impressively creative labels.
One of Katy's incredibly beautiful labels. Photo courtesy of Katy Jones
Katy shares many ideas and links to inspire us to label everything, easily and creatively. Spoonflower alone is probably the best thing to come along for those of us who want to label everything in sight. And if you don’t feel creative enough to design your own, a whole lot of designers have jumped on board the Spoonflower train to sell you their label designs. Buy a yard and you are set for the next 20 to 40 quilts. That should last you awhile.
I think I will go design me up a whole sheet of labels soon. Right after all these projects for Quilt Market. And cleaning my studio. And then writing up some directions. And then if I ever actually do get to those labels, hopefully I won’t lose them in the studio. Oh, wait a sec, I would have just cleaned the studio, so they would be easy to find, right? Of course, right. 
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Yes, yes, yes! I love Spoonflower. Back in January 2011 I had my sister design me up some labels and off they went to Spoonflower. See my post about it here: http://towerhousequilts.com/2011/01/02/quilt-labels/ I use them on all my quilts now; matching the color to the quilt. And there is lots of room to write on them to customize them. I got just one yard (72 labels) and I’m still enjoying them!