Vintage Quilt Label Embroidery- Tutorial
Hello friends! You can’t believe how excited I am to share this project with you today! I recently made an absolutely adorable baby quilt using Liberty of London fabric and it has a very sweet vintage look to it. My friend, who is expecting her baby girl in August, is a huge lover of everything vintage so I knew the quilt had to have that feel about it. This post is all about the quilt label that I made for that quilt. So now… I have a question for you. Do you make quilt labels for your finished quilts? Especially ones that you are gifting? As a lover of quilts, old and new, I’ve come to realize that quilt labels are very important.
So as I was deliberating over the label I suddenly remembered that my friend had gifted me a couple little vintage doilies for a project that I was working on and there was one small one that I didn’t use. So I pulled that out and I knew it would be perfect for the label on her baby quilt.
I’m not great at embroidery. I do it and I actually love it but my stitches are by no means perfect. (I know the key to getting good is to do it A LOT… that’s a goal of mine!) But I pulled together my favorite Clover embroidery tools, a pattern I recently purchased but hadn’t used yet, and got busy! Join me as I work through the project!
Necessary Supplies:
- Clover Embroidery Hoop
- Clover Gold Eye Embroidery Needles
- Clover Water Erasable Marker
- Bordeaux Ultimate Scissors
- Pattern (purchased or drawn yourself)
- Embroidery thread of desired colors
- Fabric or vintage doily
There are many ways to transfer a pattern to your fabric piece. But my favorite it to tape the pattern to the window and place the fabric piece over the pattern and using your Clover Water Erasable Marker, trace your pattern. The light shining through the pattern makes it very easy to trace. When you have completed your embroidery project all you have to do to get rid of the blue lines is spritz with water and they disappear!
The next thing I want to talk about is the Clover Embroidery Hoop. Oh my word. I love this hoop. If you’ve done much embroidery you know that the screw device that tightens the outer hoop over the inner one can be very frustrating on my hoops. Clover embroidery hoop has a simple screw that you can do with one hand and literally no frustration. And the very best part is that your embroidery thread is never hanging up on the screw end. I will honestly never use another brand of hoop!
I’m honestly trying to get better at my embroidery! I really took my time and tried to do a good job! (I am not very patient!)
When I had quilted my baby quilt, I purposely left one corner free of quilting so that I could attach the label to the backing and not sew through the entire quilt. It worked perfectly. I pinned carefully (using my favorite Clover flower head pins) and then I simply sewed around the scallop edges.
Once it was sewn on then I was able to complete the quilting and the binding.
I think this might be my most favorite quilt label I’ve ever made! I love the vintage look it added. With awesome Clover sewing products, a super sweet embroidery pattern and Liberty of London fabric, you really can’t go wrong! (Oh and a tiny baby girl on her way is the best part!)
I know it is hot outside, summer is in full swing and for a lot of us our sewing comes to a huge slow down during these months. But the evenings are such a great time to pick up a hand sewing embroidery or quilting project Happy summer sewing friends!
~ Dori ~
