DIY Luggage Tags

Getting Ready for a Trip? Create a custom luggage tag so that you’ll be able to spot your luggage in no time. while also adding a little style to it.

Our National Parks Fabric Collection is perfect for creating DIY Luggage Tags, as well as pouches and totes. See all our patterns here >

Supplies:

• Fat quarter of your choice
• Quilter’s Vinyl
• 1/8 yard Pellon Stabalizer Fusible Decor Bond
• 1/3 yard coordinating ½” ribbon
• Pinking shears or blade for rotary cutter, optional
• Frixion pen

Directions:

1. Cut 2 – 11 ¼” x 4 ¼” pieces from the fat quarter fabric.

2. Cut 2 – 5 ½” x 4” pieces from the Pellon Stabalizer.

3. Wrap each piece of 11¼” x 4¼” fabric around each piece of Pellon Stabalizer. Following the manufacturer’s directions, fuse the fabric in place. Trim the edges with pinking shears or blade.

4. Place a business card 1” from 3 edges of a fabric fused piece. Trace around it and cut the card-sized piece out.

5. Cut a piece of vinyl 1” larger than the business card. Stitch the vinyl in place 1/8” from the opening. If you are worried about the vinyl moving when you’re stitching, tape it in place on the wrong side.

6. Place this rectangle with the vinyl side facing up. On the short side, center a buttonhole opening ½” from the edge. Stitch a 5/8” buttonhole.

7. Cut the buttonhole open. Stack the 2 fused pieces on top of each other. Using your Frixion pen, make a mark thru the buttonhole opening for the ribbon placement. Separate the fused pieces. Fold the ribbon in half and stitch onto the fused piece, matching the mark.

8. Stack the fused pieces together again. On the ribbon end, center a 2” opening to insert your card. Using a walking foot and a ¼” seam allowance, stitch from one side of the card opening around to the other side, backstitching at each end. If you have long sturdy pins, pinning the layers together may make sewing easier. Insert your identification card, pull one end of the ribbon through the buttonhole and secure it to your luggage with a knot.

revised 7/25/23