Camera battery is recharging

I've been taking so many pictures of my woolens lately, that my camera battery died this afternoon just as I was going to take a picture of the two latest wools I dyed. So tomorrow I'll post them and the two I worked on creating today. So check back tomorrow if you want to see pictures.

Also, I got tired of hand sewing my labels on. So I bought this niffy label gun that shoots plastic t-pins through the layers. It creates very secure labels, and is quite a bit quicker than hand sewing, except when it doesn't work and shoots big holes in my labels!

Fantastic fabric labels

The results of my labeling experiment are fantastic. The Printed Treasures fabric worked beautifully in my ink jet printer. I simply made my label in Word, printed it, cut it out, peeled the back off, stuck it to a piece of black wool, cut around it leaving 1/4 inch, hand whipped it onto the back of my rug. This is what it looks like.

Loopgram: Creating Labels for rugs

I went to JoAnne's this morning with Alexander, looking for ink-jet fabric to make labels. This is something new for me. None of my other rugs are labeled and I thought that it might be a good idea to start. The only fabric "paper" I could find was either iron-on or peel-and-stick. The one thing I don't want is a label that adheres directly to the rug because then it can never be removed without destroying the fibers.

My father once hot-glued a small weaving I had made to fabric to frame it. When I wanted to take the weaving out of the frame years later, I had a mess because the glue had adhered to the fibers. The back of my weaving did not survive.

So never again. What I am going to do is stick the label to another piece of fabric, cut around it leaving a bit of an edge, and then hand-tack the label to the back of the rug. When I finish, I will post a picture of the results. I am trying the fabric made by Printed Treasures because it got raving reviews on-line, while all the others did not.