Today Hazel is 8 years old – she wasn’t fond of her birthday headband.
She looks like I was beating her. This photo was taken earlier:
If I were close to MacDonalds I would have bought her a cheeseburger! That’s what a friend of mine gives her terriers on their birthdays.
Reader photos
Here’s Gracie
I had a cookie in my hand – I think I got their attention.
Next week let’s start Point of Interest again – I think we all enjoyed it. Send me a picture of something you love in your house, a room, a collection, a piece of art, a wall quilt, a chair, a table, a favorite corner in your house that you sit in and read. You get the idea – send them to my email.
It’s bedtime for me.
I just love Hazel’s birthday pic. She has that “I’m being tortured face” mastered! My JRT Boone will be 18 in March. He was very active until this past summer when arthritis began to slow him down. He is deaf & his vision is diminished but that black nose works fine. He still lets us know when he needs to go outside. This cold & snowy winter he spends most of his time napping beside the fire. What a life!
Des – 18, huh? I hope I outlive Hazel because she wouldn’t be the easiest dog to adopt out. This is something I worry about. Just last week a friend offered to take Keeper and she has a dog that looks much like Keeper so I’m relieved. Yes, Hazel acted like I was beating her – ha!
Happy Birthday to Hazel.
A little off topic but here are a few books I have been reading that are quite good.
Sullivan’s Crossing series by Robyn Carr
I’m reading The Virgin River Series by Robyn Carr at the moment.
Have read a few of Anthony Bidulka’s books. He is an author from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
I have read three of The Russell Quant Mystery series by him.
Happy Birthday to Hazel, you look fabulous! I have never heard of a Moses in a Basket plant, something for me to look up. You have so many wonderful and interesting plants, keep on sharing with us. I do label my quilts if I make them for someone special or a special day. I always take a picture and save them in my quilting file by years made. I sometimes forget ones that I have made and it’s fun to look back on them. I don’t label smaller quilts or runners. Ones made for charity and donated in various guilds, get a guild label on them. We got 3 inches of snow on Saturday night so we shoveled and plowed all 3 driveways.
Happy Birthday to Hazel!! Yes, I usually put a label on the back of my quilts, how involved a label I make depends on who the quilt is for. If I have an extra block I might use that for the label, I have also made smaller versions of the blocks in the quilt to use as a label. On smaller items that are just for me, (table runners, small wall hangings) I often just make a small label with my name & the year the quilt was completed. I loved the picture of Gracie in the sink, I used to have a cat that loved to sleep in the sink!!
I love the quilt label discussion. Thanks, Mary, for sharing my idea for this discussion. ❤️ I myself try to label quilts especially special gift ones. I’m going to use the idea of putting labels on my grandmothers quilts. Thanks for the inspiration to do that.
Happy birthday to cutie Hazel.
Peg in MO
I forgot to answer your question. Yes, I label all the quilts I make. The donation quilts have a special guild label we sew in with just the first name of the maker. I quilt all my quilts and any others I may quilt I also quilt a heart in one corner. My trademark as well. I felt it just represents a quilt is always made with love.
Happy Birthday Hazel. I remember when you got Hazel. She is a sweetie that’s for sure.
Happy birthday to miss Hazel Jane.
Peggy…that is beautiful binding! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
If I’m planning to put a quilt in a show, it gets a label and sleeve. That way I know which ones have been in the local show.
As a longarmer, I sew the makers initials and add my heart to the corner of the quilt. The heart is my signature. It’s fun when my customer find their initials and tell me.
I agree Jo about finding initials in the quilting. The first time my long armer handed me back a quilt saying my initials were in it, I was dumbfounded. Such a nice touch you go out of the way to do in making it more personal.
A very Happy Birthday to Hazel!🎈. You wear your middle age well.
Labels are something I just don’t think to do. After binding, my least favorite part of quilting, I’m done. My earliest quilts have them, though.
The memory quilts of plaid and checked shirts are soo good. They look cozy, and old, which is a compliment!
When I took my first beginning quilting class in 1984, the importance of putting a label on a quilt was emphasized, so I usually put one on the quilts I make. One exception is donated quilts; the guild’s community service group has a label that is added to those. For quilts I keep or give as gifts, I use the alphabet stitches on my sewing machine to stitch out my name, date, name of quilt which is usually the pattern name, designer and name of the recipient.
I also keep a sort of quilt journal on my computer, one file per calendar year. In addition to pictures of finished quilts, and info on quilts started, worked on and finished that year, I like to include a few comments about other things going on in life that year. I don’t keep any other kind of journal or diary, and sometimes it’s interesting to remember why there was a multi year gap between starting and finishing a quilt.
I always label my quilts. I print out the information I want to include (the name I have given the quilt, who I’ve made it for if it’s a gift, the designer’s name or company if I’ve used a pattern, my name, my city, date) on paper, then I trace it (with a pigma pen) onto a strip of fabric that gets tucked into the binding. I space the words out so that the label goes around one corner of the quilt. This gives a neat, clean look on the back of the quilt. Happy birthday to Hazel! Keeper was obviously sticking close, in case any birthday treats were doled out, lol! Thanks for sharing a picture of Gracie … we don’t see her often.
Happy birthday Hazel! I love your antics and little stunts! You are so cute! Happy birthday!
It is windy and cold! But! The sun in shining!
Have a good Sunday!
I am still missing Patti from Florida and hope she is doing okay. Her friend wasn’t going to be with her very long, so just been wondering if all is okay with her.
I do label my quilts, but most are done through our quilting group so we put their name on them.
Church quilts get an iron on label with the logo and address. then it is also stitched onto the back. It is hand colored with pens. If someone has an easier method please inform.
I put hand embroidered labels on quilts. With little messages depending on who and why they are receiving the quilt. My charity quilts I don’t always label them. Sometimes the labels are made from extra blocks. Like I made an a quilt with elephants . I used an extra elephant to make the label.
If the quilt is for me I might put how many 1″ half square triangles are in the quilt or how long it took, if fabric special like from Dad’s flannel shirts…
Happy Birthday Hazel!! 🎉🥳🐾🐶 I laughed so hard at her expression with the birthday headband 😂 She’s such a cutie
Love the quilt show once again such beautiful quilts and such talented quilters!
Happy birthday Hazel!
I don’t label quilts, although I always intend to, ha!
Happy Birthday, Hazel! Such a drama Queen!!
I always label my quilts – finished quilts are so few & far between, I need the proof of actually having gotten something done documented for posterity. ;o)
Happy Birthday Hazel,
I always put a label on the back of my quilts. Sometimes just a plain muslin label with name of quilt, dates made, by who and where(city, state). If I have a star or say a pomegranate on the front of quilt I make an extra block but put muslin in somewhere and put info on that part.
Happy stitchin’ 2025 everyone.
Shirley in central Oregon
I do not label quilts for donation. Quilts I keep get an embroidered label with the name of the quilt, my name, date completed. Gifted quilts get an embroidered label with the name of the quilt, Made with Love for ______ , made by (my name), date, and occasion.
Happy birthday to Hazel!
Happy Birthday Hazel!
I always stitch a label on my quilts: who knows where they will end up in the future! I like the idea that if someone comes across one of my quilts in 60 or 70 years that they can see who made it, when and where. The basics that I always record are: the name of the quilt (I give all my quilts a name), my name, the name of the designer (if I used a pattern), the date (the year) and the place (my village and country). If it is made as a gift, I record that too: the name of the recipient and the occasion. For very special quilts, that I have put a lot of time into and that are gifted, I also stitch a separate care label on the quilt, so that the recipient knows how to care for is and how to wash it if necessary, as not everyone who gets a quilt knows how to care for it.
For really small items, I don’t make a label but have ready printed tags that I can sew into the binding or side seem with my name on them.
Happy birthday, Hazel! You are such a big girl now.
Sometimes I put on a quilt label and sometimes I don’t.
Starting to read “The Winemaker’s Wife” by Kristin Harmel. ” Love & betrayal, forgiveness & redemption”. I usually use my Bernina to embroider my name and the year on a front border in the lower right hand corner on my quilts. I sometimes also put the person’s name I’m gifting it to somewhere on the front of the quilt in one of the blocks and sometimes hiding that for fun. Asheville, NC Update: FEMA pulled out this weekend leaving 2,000 plus people still homeless and some STILL living in tents. It’s been snowing up there and there has been intermittent ice storms. No sigh of the Red Cross picking up any slack. Bet FEMA & The Red Cross gave themselves raises with the 1 million dollars FOX and others donated to them like they usually do.
Such a shame!! Thank you for the update and keep us posted as you are able
When we had the flash flood in 1972, the death toll was 238 people, 4 of which were never found. The flash flood had followed the creek thru town, so a small part was effected. It was 2-3 days after the flood and recovery was in full force. The men had taken our cars to get where they worked to help dig out. Our freezer had a supply of bread and lunch meat so the 9-year girl who lived next door and I made a large box of sandwiches along with cheese and whatever we could think of. There were a lot of workers out there that needed food. I called the Red Cross to see how to get it to where it was needed and they didn’t know a darn thing!!!!! Now, the Salvation Army had their food truck out in the middle of everything handing food and water to the workers up to their elbows in mud.
So, the pickups from the Air Base were bringing big cans of water as the water and gas had been shut off in town at the time. And they were coming in right by our house. We stood by the road and flagged the next pickup. They stopped and thought we needed help. We explained we had the sandwiches but no way to get them where needed. The driver said the water is going to Central High School where the feeding was at that time, so he’d take the box and deliver it for us. Problem solved.
The Salvation Army gave away food to the workers, no questions asked. It was very simple to them. People were out in the middle of the mud and others had climbed right in to help, and they all needed food. I don’t think we had FEMA then.
Betty in Rapid City
Betty, Way to go making food for the volunteers! You and the neighbor gal were very helpful!
I knew a gal and her husband and family from Marshall MN that were camping near Rapid City, they decided to leave before the flood. How scary. That was devastating. I am thinking because of this incident, there are warning systems in place. Probably there is one at Whitewater State Park in Minnesota as well. Fire moves so fast. The fires are incredibly sad. Losing everything is like a death, but things can be replaced, not our loved ones. When we are told to evacuate immediately, it’s time to go immediately, any hesitation can be regrettable.
Happy Birthday to Hazel, whatta gal!
Happy Birthday to sweet, adorable Hazel! Wish I could give her a hug. Seeing your animals makes my day.
I label quilts that I gift and since I haven’t made a quilt in years that I haven’t gifted; I guess that means I label all of them. I design my label in a simple font on my computer and print it at the size I need. I trace the printed version as a guide to neaten my handwriting with a permanent marker. I’ve used the folded square triangle or a rectangle for the label. Just depends on what I have to say on the label. Now I have a wild urge to make a quilt for me and NOT put a label on it. If a woman is more attractive with a little mystery about her then that should apply to quilts also.
Happy birthday to Hazel!
I usually label my quilts (and initial and date my cross-stitch). I have spent time looking at old family quilts and wondering who made them and for what reason, so I figure I’m saving future generations some time… 🙂
Aw, Happy Birthday to Hazel – a day late! I love the two shirt quilts! I haven’t made too many quilts and the ones I have I did not label but I will from now on! I love reading about the ways everyone documents their work. Great ideas. A bit warmer here today, up to 30 and supposed to reach 35 for a high. Feels so much better than the last week! My heart and prayers are with those people who’ve lost their homes and everything else in those horrific fires. Just awful. Jan in MA
Happy Birthday Hazel 🎈🎈
No I don’t label my quilts. I do have pictures of all my projects except maybe 5 early ones on my computer and the file label has the date. I don’t make heirlooms, I want them used and abused and loved. AND, I have a very small family – 3 neices with no children and 2 granddaughters with no children. They know where every quilt project they own was made. So, I really don’t think having my name on quilts going to strangers (donations) important – I think of them a random actsof kindness.
I label my quilts and keep a quilt journal with specifics about the quilt. It’s fun to go back and read about quilts I’ve made, some I’ve forgotten .
I probably get 75-80% of my quilts labeled. I think it’s important but sometimes I just don’t get it on. Happy Birthday, Hazel. You look maaah-velous!
Happy birthday, Hazel!
I only put labels on quilts that are gifts, especially of it’s to honor the birth of a child.
Yes, I am back to labeling my quilts especially the ones going to special people. Just found out #7 great grandchild is coming in June. So back to making a baby quilt. Not yet but soon.
I just returned from my friend’s house. We had a little quilt retreat there. She is recovering from back surgery and has been home bound for months. She had a chair lift put in to the lower level so she can be back to a sewing machine. Before surgery she had worked on her long arm on a quilt. She did not like it and had just started picking it out. She could only do a little at a time and had not gotten too far. I finished it for her. She had only done one swipe on a small quilt thank goodness. I was working on EPP and doing the fold on pieces with a tiny Clover iron. The cord pulled it down and I tried to grab it and burned my index finger. I did a lot of pacing with an ice bag on it.
Fran – I know that finger has got to hurt!!!
Happy Birthday to Hazel.
I put labels on my quilts. I started with typewriter on fabric. Advanced to cross stitch. Now with my machines I can use the alphabet and write a label.
1. Who it is for.
2. Year
3. Who made it.
Sometimes a special message and an appliqué that goes with the front.
I consider the quilt done when the label is sewn on.
Happy Birthday Hazel!! I usually do a label. One thing I get mad at myself about is I always forget to take a picture! Hugs,
Happy Birthday Hazel!!
Happy birthday, Hazel! I loved her picture at the piano yesterday and the funny comment that went with it.
I always label my quilts. I didn’t label earlier quilts. A year or so ago, my son’s dog chewed a hole in a quilt that my daughter-in-law’s grandmother made. Her grandmother passed a long time ago so I wanted to try to fix the quilt. The chewed place was fortunately black and white solids so i was able to fix it. (I am not a solid fan so I had to buy a little fabric.) Anyway I added a label with my daughter-in-law’s grandma’s name and found out a great aunt hand quilted it so I added her name too.
I haven’t labeled my quilts. However, almost always I take a picture and place it in a notebook, with the name of the recipient and date it was made.
I used to hopscotch putting a label on my quilts and then when we put them in a quilt show, I had no record of it. So I’ve been putting labels on my quilts with the quilt pattern, my name who quilted it since I don’t own a longarm and the pattern used for quilting and completion dates. I like to fold a 10″ square on the diagonal corners for my label and when I bind, I sew two sides into the bottom right side corner. All that’s left to secure is the top pocket which a piece of binding can easily be tucked away in for future repair if necessary.
Happy Birthday Hazel!!!!!
I will usually label a quilt if it is a gift. I sometimes do a very simple one for quilts i keep..usually name of pattern, the year and my initials. I like to do the folded triangle type and sew it into the corner when I do the binding. I wish my handwriting was better and I find it is difficult to write on fabric. I often press the label to freezer paper when I’m writing . Seems to make it easier. I use a Pentel Gel Roller pen for fabric that was recommended by Bonnie Hunter. You can get them on Amazon. I wish i had been better about keeping pictures of the quilts I’ve made. It’s fun to look back at them. I especially love to have pictures of the babies laying on the quilts I’ve made foe them. I like to see the quilts being used!
Happy Birthday to Hazel!!! She is just the cutest little girl! Love her personality. My daughter in law always makes a big deal out of our Grand Dog’s birthday. I love it. Our pets are family!!!!
Ginger, my handwriting is poor also so I find a pretty simple font on my computer and print out my label at the size I need it to be. Then I trace from the printed version to the fabric. Sometimes I use a light box, sometimes a window, sometimes I just darken the printed version. Whatever it takes at the moment. I don’t do a perfect copy, just a guide to neaten up my writing.
Happy Birthday, Hazel!! Snowy day here in Michigan.
Happy birthday, Queen Hazel!
I’m like you Mary I never put a label on my quilt. I sign it and if it’s going out right away, I’ll date it.
Happy birthday, Hazel!
I do (usually) label my quilts. Fun to see, years later, when I finished a quilt!
What interesting comments about labels on quilts. I am amazed at Gloria’s work documenting her quilts in a binder. I do label mine usually with a folded square in the corner like Diane O described as I am not proficient on the computer to do one with nice font and print it out so I just we use a pigma pen but was gifted a gel pen to use so will try that. Some of my quilts have been gifted to family across the country so I hope someday when others see it, they know it was mailed from far away to a loved one for a reason.
Happy birthday to the queen on the farm! My terrier liked the French fries from MacDonalds more than the burger. We always got him a kiddie meal.
Happy Birthday Hazel!!🎉🥳
I don’t label my quilts.
Yes, I label my quilts. I take between 5″ to 10″ square of white or ivory fabric, fold it in half diagonally, put it in a corner of the quilt and sew the raw edges into the binding. Then, I just hand sew down the fold. My label can contain lots of information or very little, but I try to include the pattern name and author on the label along with other information. Our guild charity quilts have labels made by the guild. They are square, so I sew 2 sides into the binding and then hand sew the other 2 sides. I sure wish some of my older quilts had information on a label.
I label the same way Diane.
Happy Birthday, Miss Hazel! She looks to be enjoying a perfectly wonderful day, headband excepted!
I love the idea of quilt labels, and I am trying to do better about including them. It only takes a few minutes, and it seems an important bit of history and establishing a story of a quilter’s life. A dear friend passed away unexpectedly late last year, and I am trying to make the habit of adding a label in her memory. She always included a label on her quilts, sometimes with a little joke and always with her name and the year completed. On her cross stitch pieces, all beautiful and most of them huge, she would add a little card inside the frame with a picture of herself, the date completed, and usually the name of the pattern. She said that this was so the person who bought it at a thrift shop years down the road would know who made it! She was so humble!
Happy birthday, Hazel! I usually put a label on my quilts if they are gifts, otherwise I don’t bother.
Happy Birthday Hazel!!!!! I’m sure you had the best of days.
The only time I label a quilt is when I gift it to someone. But I do take a picture of the quilt and transfer the picture to a word document where I put the date finished, the name and size of the quilt, fabrics used (name of fabric line with lot number), width of borders, name of backing fabric, name of binding fabric, quilted by/quilting pattern and miscellaneous notes. I have a 3-ring binder with plastic sleeves where I slide the document in. In another binder I put the quilt pattern. I have done so many Country Threads patterns that these patterns have their own 3-ring binder. I don’t consider the quilt finished until all this is completed.
I label all of my quilts. I use a pigma pen and set the ink with my iron. It’s the last thing I do when I make a quilt. Our daughter in law always looks for the label when a quilt is gifted to her, our son or their kids from me. I always put the year it was completed. I would love to learn which type of pen everyone uses to make their quilt labels.
I plan to make labels for each of the quilts my mother made and attach to them this year so our family knows each quilt’s history when I am no longer here.
Hi Mary, l always do a label, will photograph the latest one and quilt tomorrow. It is a string pieced star, black background with black wool batting inside for my great nephew, so l don’t want him to hot wash it,the instruction is to give it to mum! Happy birthday to Hazel! Bella helps me eat dinner,l have to give her nibbles as l eat, even though she has her favorite biscuits ,and she loves to share an ice-cream with me! Love the string quilt at the start of the photos and the 2 made from dad’s shirts.A chilly day in New Zealand, but no rain today, take care everyone, best wishes from Sandy
Happy Birthday to my favorite Diva!
I do labels, special ones for family and friends, more general for our gifting quilts, because I like to put care and washing instructions at the bottom. I’ve become proficient at machine binding, and add “Machine wash gentle cycle. Line dry inside out.” What that means is that the binding is sturdy, and if it’s machine washable, they will USE it.
I’ve found the best pens are gel pens, which come in lots of colours, with sparkle/glitter sometimes too. Pressing with an iron sets the ink.
Pauline in South Australia
I also put labels on my quilts. I’ve heard it makes them more valuable. I’m laughing at Hazel slinking down with her crown on. Enjoyed the quilts. Mary, you are amazing with plants. They all are so pretty and healthy, even after you bring them indoors. My few all look pretty sad by the time they can go outside again in spring.
Happy Birthday, Hazel!!!
I always do labels. I just did one…number 597! A quilt appeaser told me what needs to be on the label. To me the quilt is not done until it has a label.