labelling your quilts

My friend Liz recently wrote about labels and wisely said a quilt is not finished until it is appropriately labelled.  I wholeheartedly agree, having seen many an antique quilt with absolutely no provenence, which leaves us all wondering the who, where and whens of the quilt.

Her post reminded me of a quilt made a while back for Miss EF and it's fun little label.

The embroidered blocks were purchased from an eBay dealer already completed.  They were nicely stitched on white cotton and in good condition.  They remind me of the dogs in Disney animated films. I framed them with a fun Scotty dog 1930's reproduction with a mixture of blue repro cornerstones and narrow red and black borders. The backing is a blue '30's repro.

Quilted with triple diagonal lines on the blocks, teacups in the sashing and diagonal lines 1 width of masking tape apart on the outer border.

The label was a bit of fun. The crazy song of the same title was on the radio and a favoutite of Miss EF at the time (she'd kill me for mentioning this now!) 

I design my labels with either MS Publisher or Word, print them out and reduce/enlarge to the right size on a photocopier. Then tape to a window, lay over the label fabric and trace using black Artline Drawing System pens (a throwback from my architectural drafting days). I prefer these to Pigma pens and they come in a range of thicknesses from very fine to nice and chunky 0.8 or 1.0's.  I'll iron the finished label with a hot dry iron to set the ink and they tend to last very well.

I'm curious to see if or how other quilters label their work. Do you label or don't you bother?