I have been sewing like a crazy person all summer long, when I haven’t been sitting in the car.  And, when I was in the car I was writing and in one case, giving an interview to Pat Sloan (from I-40!).  Anywhoo-  I’ll be able to tell you all about those sewing projects, shortly.

For now though, I took a little time for myself to make a new guild name tag.  My other tags needed a bit of an update. This will make 3 total tags that say “JEN” all carried in my purse.  Um… in case of a nametag emergency???  Maybe I’ll have enough one day to sew them all together and make a big JEN quilt.  (Hum… that would be a pretty weird quilt, I think.)  I should throw in one or two JAN’s since people call me that all the time.  I digress…

So here’s what I did: I wanted to make some wonky improv pieced name tags for my mom and myself.  I signed up to be on a Quilt Room Tours deal put on by the Prairie Quilt Guild and we need to have name tags for the event.

In the picture, my name tag is quilted using a straight lines, about 3/8″ apart and then finished with a satin stitch (real close zig zag, like in the Drink Coaster Tutorial) to finish the edges.  Since these are name tags, they are kinda small.  I had to use a 1/8″ seam allowance and sew pretty slow to make sure everything turned out.  The KArEN tag, for my mom, is about 8″ x 3″.   And of course, used the Word Play Quilts for guidance.  {{LOVE that book!}}

One Response to “Nametags”

1. Tonya Ricucci says:

   August 26, 2011 at 7:35 am

   Glad you love the book! those are great nametags – something I never thought of myself – d’oh!!! okay, I’m a little slow…

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