Mini Monday: Nametag Challenge

The Orlando Modern Quilt Guild's monthly challenge for October is designing and making your own name tag. I have been wanting to do this for a while now and the Pinterest pins have been accumulating. Thanks Yanick for creating this challenge.

the front

I used this name tag for reference. Megan has a paper pieced tutorial, but I "free pieced" the sewing machine using the picture as a guide (after my first unsuccessful attempt at paper piecing) and embroidered other details such as the spool of thread.

The background is a linen in my favorite blue; the other fabrics are from my scrap bin. I stitched half of one of my labels (leaving off the "Creates") on the machine at an angle as my daughter suggested.