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I have seen several quilt labels, Jo's comes to mind as the most recent, where a prayer or special thoughts are written. I would like to do something like that on my autograph quilt and a few others when I get them put together, but wondered, is the writing or is there some kind of special machine that does it? Thanks for any help or suggestions.

I have used my inkjet printer with great results. Easy to use, just make sure everything is spelled correctly. )

Sue

sue, is your printer ink ok for washing? or do you buy a specific ink for your printer??
also how do you feed the material through without it 'puckering'??
love jacquie xxxx

jacquie,
You can get a computer printer fabric. It is like a fabric "glued" to paper that you can feed through your ink jet printer. It is suppose to make the ink permanent. You can just type up your saying in a word processing program and then print it onto this fabric. The paper then peels of the back and you have a white or tan muslin fabric with the printing on it. I hope this explains it a little. I know June Tailor makes one and also I think there is one called Printed Treasures or something like that. Maybe QIAD even carries it.

Yes jacquie, I just looked and QIAD carries Printed Treasures. Just type in the search on the Shop Online "Printed Treasures" and it will come up.

Chrissy, I bought a label book from a lady at the Quilt Show in Chicago a few years back. You just photocopy the pages. I ironed freezer paper to the back of a hunk of muslin the ran it through my printer/copier and printed it right onto the muslin. then I colored over the black ink with pigma pens. Keep in mind that whatever printer ink you don't cover with the colored pens will wash out. Then I just free hand wrote the saying in the middle of the block. The you heat set the pens by taking the freezer paper off the back and ironing on the back of the muslin with a hot, dry iron. Don't ask me how long because it depends on what I am thinking about when I do it. probably 10 - 20 seconds. Then I fold the edges, sew on the back of the quilt and wash it. You could probably do the same thing with a word processing program, just type the words and then print them. But at that point, I think you need the special paper so that the printer ink doesn't wash out, unless you are going to color over top of it. Does that make sense?

Jo