Personalize your quilts the easy way with Decorative Quilting Interactive Embroidery from Designer’s Gallery. These labels are perfect way to add a to/from label on a gift or to add your tag to commissioned quilts. Download printable instructions.
Materials:
- Decorative Quilting Interactive Embroidery by Designer’s Gallery
- Left over fabric from the quilt
- Baby Lock Tear-Away stabilizer
- Embroidery and bobbin thread
- General sewing supplies
Tools:
- Embroidery machine
Steps:
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At the Computer: Quilt labels finish the story. Follow these simple steps to sign your quilt:
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Click on the Interactive icon on the desktop.
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On the top toolbar click on the Interactive icon to open the Interactive side of the program.
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If you have more than one Interactive program scroll down and select Decorative Quilting Designs located to the left of the workspace.
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Type in the information that you want on your label. When you want to advance to the next line hit the Enter on the keyboard.
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If you wish to adjust the Height Letter Spacing or Line Spacing move the slide bars to the desired location. Tip: the letters are upper case only.
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Click on the Save icon and give the design a name. Save in your machine’s file format to the media device that the machine will read
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Hoop the Tear-Away stabilizer and the fabric in the 100mm x 100mm hoop and place on the embroidery unit of the machine.
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Retrieve the lettering design and embroider the design using the thread color of your choice.
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Remove the fabric from the hoop and trim the label to the desired size. Fold under the edges ¼″ on all sides and press.
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I like to place the label in one of the corners on the backside of the quilt and then hand sew in place.
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Option: Center the lettering inside an embroidered shape.
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