After decades of studying historic and contemporary quilts, I have become more and more of an advocate for labeling your quilts, especially as adding a label or signature seems to be a final step that often gets overlooked. When I ask quilters why they do not label their quilts, I’ve had them tell me that they simply forget, that they are ready to be done and move on to the next thing once the binding is finished, and that they don’t know what to write. But labeling your quilts is important both for your own legacy and for the legacy of women’s arts. And like every other good habit, labeling is something that you learn to do regularly through practice.
