Making Product Labels – Work in Progress Wednesdays #10

For anyone who makes and sells products in the United States, there are strict laws governing safety and labels.  I have spent hours and hours days and days the past several years doing my best to comply to all the safety standards and labels required to make items for children.  I do of course believe safety is hugely important and want childrens products to never put children at risk.  But at the same time, I must say that the laws are by my assessment written not for small home sewers such as myself but for large manufacturers.

And, because it is late and I need to head to bed I will stop there with my discussion of labels and simply say that I am thrilled with my work in progress of learning how to make my own labels out of cotton or silk!!!  I recently stumbled on this wonderful tutorial on making your own washable labels.  It’s a 3 part series and Duhbe has done an AMAZING job explaining the legal requirements for labels as well as the how to of making your own.  I am sooooo thankful and wanted to pass on her tutorial to you!  Stay tuned to see my new label making experience mean I finally sew labels into my products.

So the photo above is my first stab using her method of making my own labels.  I printed on a lovely dupioni silk and while the labels turned out to look rediculously large way too big for the toys I want to attach them to, the process of making them was seamless and I can’t wait to keep working and make more!!!  I tried to capture in the photo how lovely the silk looks as a label but it feels awesome and I think it will answer my dillema of needing a label which is sensory friendly for my products!  Even if you don’t sell online, this process would be great for making your own labels to sew into gifts!

Sharing with the crafty folks over at Tami’s Ami’s, Frontier Dreams, Quilt Story and Freshly Pieced.  Love seeing everyone’s projects!