labels and spoonflower

I've been in a label rut lately.  I had been doing so good keeping up with making and using labels in the past, but this year has been an exception. 

I think part of it was the feeling I had that I had to do it all from treating the fabric to making the design then printing it, retreating the fabric, and cutting them out and so on. 

And then two days ago a lightbulb went off and I decided to do it through spoonflower.  Brilliant!!  So all I needed was the design, which I came up with by using photoshop. 

 

The label above is for quilts.  I'm super excited to be able to just cut them out, press the edges under, embroider (by machine or hand) the details and hand sew them down.

And this label design is for other sewing projects. 

 

 

It's way smaller and I'll cut them out along the solid lines to be folded in half and the long raw edges will be sewn in the seam of a project.

I've only just ordered a yard of each design, so I haven't received it yet.  I hope they turn out close to these pics though, especially since I was so impatient and didn't want to order a swatch and wait to inspect it only to order more.  I guess if it doesn't turn out, I'll use them for purse linings maybe?  

xo,

Penny 

Comments

[Suzanne]

Wow! This is brilliant. My mind quickly traveled from your cute quilt labels to making personalized labels with name and phone number for my kids' clothing items. Hmmm.... Or specialty labels for people who I repeatedly craft for...Thanks for the inspiration. I can't wait to see how yours turn out.

[Debbie]

Very clever! I hope you share them in use too!

[diane stanley]

love them. I am always happy with Spoonflower labels.

[Tiffany]

Cute! I love them.

[Michele C]

For years I've imagined creating a design with my logo on it for lining bags and other items. One day ... Hope yours works out just perfect; looks like it will.

[Kelie]

This may be a really stupid question but I'm asking anyways! When you are designing the actual label how do you know the size it's going to be? I've attempted to design my own label in the past and it ended up WWWWAAAAYYYYY too small, thankfully I only ordered a test swatch!

[Penny]

Hi Kelie,

Not a stupid question at all! I haven't received mine yet, but when you are picking the layout, you can enlarge or shrink the image and it will tell you how big each image will be if you shrink or enlarge. So I made the image the size I wanted in that area before ordering.

I hope that helps!

[alpa]

Hi Penny, hope you've been doing well! The labels are super adorable; I love them!!