Making Nametags

Sorry to be such a long response on this. I made a lot of name tags for a quilt shop. Here is how I did them....just suggestions....please use your own judgement. I embroidered them on linen-like fabric (real cheap stuff) using a heavy cut away stabilizer. I embroidered them all on the large piece of fabric prior to cutting them apart....just measured out how much I needed to leave between all the nametags for cutting. After cutting them to size, I serged around the edges of each one. I suppose you could hot glue a pin on the back....however, the quilt shop I did the name tags for put them in the plastic nametag holders with the pins on the back because they felt this would keep them clean for a longer period of time. Some of the people put their tags on lanyards hanging around their neck because they didn't want to pin into their clothes. Hope this will give you some suggestions. Mine were very much like making a patch except not satin stitched around the edge, but just serged. This brings another method to mind.....you could use a patch embroidery design and insert the names separately on it and it would be satin stitched all around.

Sorry...forgot to give one step. I placed another piece of cut away on the back before serging the edges so the embroidery stitching did not show on the back.