. . . and a name tag to match – 2021.08.07

After finishing my mini art quilt for the annual Fibre Art Network (FAN) Artwork Exchange, my next task was to make a name tag to wear while attending the FAN virtual conference next month.

Why wear a name tag to a Zoom event? The conference organizers said “We know your Zoom account will have your name posted but we would still like to include this as an activity and encourage you to wear it each day just for the fun of it. We would like this to be an interesting little project that will give everyone a sense of the style you work in.”

I really enjoyed the look of overlapping text in bright colors that I used for my X’s and O’s quilt. And my work surface was still covered with fabric scraps from my mini quilt, so that seemed the obvious place to start.

It was a challenge to make the letters small enough to fit within the 4″ x 3″ size of a name tag. This is what I came up with. The ‘t’ is about 2″ high, and the other letters are about 1.5″. Some of the overlapping pieces are tiny! I traced the letters onto fusible web and fused them to some of my favourite bright colours.

Then I cut each piece out, trimming minutely inside the lines, to leave a very thin gap between each piece. I used a dark eggplant fabric for the background. I was pleased how well the pieces fit together.

I turned the edges under and fused another piece of eggplant fabric to the back. I stitched near the edges and around my name. (I didn’t use any batting as I wanted it to fit into a standard plastic name tag holder.)

Here it is in the plastic name tag sleeve. I plan to wear this name tag to future in-person quilting events.

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Thanks for stopping by.  I will be linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.

• Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
• Can I get a Whoop Whoop? by Confessions of a Fabric Addict
• Love Laugh Quilt Monday Making
• Quilt Fabrication Midweek Makers