{How to} Make your own Fabric Labels

Is it Monday? No... Well shoot. It feeeeeels like a Monday morning. Your probly wondering what kind of looney writes a post at 5 in the AM? Ya. I'm that kind of looney, but I was always a looney tune anyways ha! So yesterday I managed to squeeze in a trip to the craft store and a trip to Jo-Ann's, all in one hour [traffic was seriously on my side luckily]. My mission was to find the supplies to make some nifty little fabric tags and here I am today to show you how you can easily make some inexpensive fabric tags for all of your sewing projects!

First up is to create your image. As you can see in the photo above I have created a small image and pasted 18 of them on one document. Depending on the size of your twill tape, you will need to create an image in your photo editing software [I use Photoshop], in my case, since my twill tape is 1" wide, I created my document to be 1" wide and 2.5" long. Once finished I copied the label and created a new document. See the arrow at the bottom? That's showing you the size of the new document. 8.5x11 which is the size of the printable transfer sheets. The last step before printing your page is to 'mirror' the image. In photoshop you just go to Image>>Rotate>>Flip horizontal.

In case you were wondering what transfer sheets I used? I used These iron on sheets for light fabrics and ink-jet printers.

Document done in PS, load the sheets [with the usable side down] into the printer and click print.

When it comes to cutting you can use anything really. A ruler and some simple scissors? Sure! I used my Paper cutter for faster cutting and measuring.

Almost done! Next is the fun part. Gathering your twill tape [again, color and size is totally up to you, just make sure that if you get a darker color twill tape that you buy the transfer sheets for darker fabrics], ironing board and iron and your ready to go. The ironing part is easy, for mine I just laid my tape out on my ironing board and placed one of my labels on the tape and using the iron, just press down for about 10 seconds and wiggled the iron around a bit for a few more seconds, peel off, trim and Presto!

You have your new labels!

There you have it. A complete tutorial on how to make your very own fabric labels. All in all it was pretty inexpensive and as far as time, really didn't take all that long either.

My sewing machine has been collecting dust the past couple of months and I have missed it dearly. I'm really excited to get back into my 'studio' and start working and making more projects. How about you? Do you sew? Any new projects in the works?