Category: Documenting quilts

  • Updated Quiltmaker’s Documentation form

    Updated Quiltmaker’s Documentation form

    As you may know, every time I speak or teach at a quilt guild, I always encourage people to take the time to document their quilts. Because of this, I have developed a Quiltmaker’s Documentation form that I distribute freely. The form helps you remember all the little details about your quilt, all the information…

  • Tutorial: Computer printed labels

    Tutorial: Computer printed labels

    Yesterday, I touched on what information to put on a quilt label. Today I want to give you a short tutorial on an easy way to make a quilt label. My absolute laziest way to make a quilt label is to just sign the quilt with my favorite fabric pen, the Pentel Gel Roller for…

  • Tutorial: What goes on a quilt label

    Tutorial: What goes on a quilt label

    While I was putting the final touches on “Cabin Window” last week, there was a Facebook question about making quilt labels. That made me think of some of the different ways I’ve made labels through the years. I guess it goes without saying that I hope you label your quilts! Every quilt you make deserves…

  • A very old quilt with people

    A very old quilt with people

    To the best of my knowledge, I first saw a quilt that depicted a person in the early 1990’s. It was revolutionary to me. Just the idea! Finally I could combine my love of drawing people and portraits with my love of fabric. Since then, I’ve eagerly (greedily) looked for more quilts with people. I…

  • Tutorial: Photographing quilts

    Tutorial: Photographing quilts

    I am not a professional photographer, but I am convinced that just about anyone can take decent pictures of their own quilts; certainly good enough for documenting your quilts. In most cases, you can take pictures good enough to enter quilt competitions. Personally, I’ve actually only hired a local professional photographer once, and I was…

  • Getting a quilt appraised

    Getting a quilt appraised

    Today DH and I took a little road trip so we could get “Windblown” appraised. Many quilters I know have never had their quilts appraised, but after more than twelve years of maintaining the Lost Quilt Come Home website, I am fully convinced of the necessity of doing this, especially for any quilt that will…

  • I lost 9″!

    I lost 9″!

    I lost 9″ today! Nine inches of magazines taking up shelf space. Okay, I admit that might not sound like much. But, that is 38 magazines that I paged through and got rid of. Some I gave to a family with three kids so they can cut them up. Some went into the trash. I…

  • Quiltmaker’s Documentation form revised

    Quiltmaker’s Documentation form revised

    After valuable insights from some generous quilters (thanks Karen, Sandra, and Margaret!), I made some revisions to the Quiltmaker’s Documentation form. If you downloaded one yesterday, you might consider downloading the new form today. The file has the same name, so it should overwrite the previous one if you save them both in the same…

  • Tutorial: quilt documentation, continued

    Tutorial: quilt documentation, continued

    After posting yesterday about my rather haphazard way of “documenting” my quilts, I thought it might be nice to give you something a little more organized. So here is the second part of the tutorial on documenting your quilts. I spent a little time creating an easy-to-fill-out quilt documentation form in PDF format. I’m going…

  • Tutorial: documenting your quilts

    Tutorial: documenting your quilts

    Seems like I’ve been spinning my wheels the last couple weeks. For the past five days I’ve been drowning in paperwork. Mostly end-of-the-year paperwork and tax stuff for my family, for our church, and for my quilting. Of course there were a few distracted side trips sprinkled in. One of my rabbit trails was organizing…