DIY Custom Sewing Labels (Easy)! ♥ Fleece Fun

These DIY Custom Sewing Labels (easy) are the perfect finishing touch to your handmade project. Made using infusible ink markets they can take a beating in the wash and stay clear and vibrant. A cinch to make and once you have purchased all the materials the project can be done at a fraction of the cost of professionally designed labels. While I’ve used my Cricut Maker for this project you can easily do this on a Cricut Explore Air 2 or Cricut Joy.

Materials needed:

Cricut Machine

Cricut Access or graphics for your labels (I have the files I used here if you want to take a look)

1- 2 inch wide satin ribbon (the ribbon must be satin – mostly polyester- so it can take the sublimation)

Piece of Baking Parchment

Lint Roller

DIY Custom Sewing Labels (easy) Instructions:

Step 1 – Select the right kind of graphics

Since we’re using pens for the labels you need to make sure that the graphics.

You can take a look at the file that I have set up or you can use your own graphics. But you need to be mindful about what you choose. It needs to work with a pen and look good small ( you don’t want lines blurring into each other).

Finding a Graphic in Cricut Access is easy. I searched “Hand Made” and found this. Perfect for a gift label. ( You can upload your own custom graphics to Design Space too!)

The graphic as is won’t work. I need to select the graphic then got to Operation >> then click on pen. This then makes the graphic a pen outline. It looks good and clean to me so now all I need todo is size it.

Since I’m using 1.5 inch wide ribbon I want the graphics to be smaller than that so by dragging the corner button of the two arrows pointing away from each other I resize it so it will fit.

Step 2 – Make the Transfer Sheet for the Sewing Labels

Now I’m ready to write the labels I make sure to mirror the image so it will transfer correctly to my custom sewing labels.

With an infusible ink pen and laser printer paper on a Light Grip Mat I let the Cricut machine work it’s magic.

( It’s a much neater writer than me).

Step 3 – Transfer the Images to the DIY Sewing Labels

Now that I have my labels all written out it’s time for infusible ink magic!

I cut a s strip of ribbon (about 4 inches long) and give it a quick swipe with a lint roller. Then I place one of my graphics Toward the top of the ribbon. The spacing is important so you have enough room to fold over the ribbon, and space to sew the top to an item.