QR Luggage tags

This is the project that had me chained to needles and threads of various forms right up through the evening before I had to pack and leave for a 4-day Sweet Adelines event, inspired by this post on the Elaine Adair Pieces blog:

Hard to see, but there's a plastic sleeve into which I slipped the business card.

The business card is blank on the back, so personal info can be written in.

Our chorus participates every year in a judged competition for the choruses in Sweet Adelines Region 10 (most of Texas and the Gulf Coast states up to Florida). This is an opportunity to show the Region (and ourselves) how much we've worked and (hopefully) improved over the past 12 months. The Competition weekend is our traditional time to show appreciation to one another through Secret Sister gifts and section gifts (from members to Section Leaders and vice-versa).

My intent was to complete a set of 2 matching tags for each Baritone in my section (I'm the Baritone Section Leader) as my thank-you gift to them for all the hard work they've put in this past year. I had also hoped to make single tags for myself and the other 3 members of my quartet AH!HA, single tags for the members of our "sister" quartet Mental Notes, a tag for my Secret Sister, and one for our new director.

Life laughed at my intentions. Working furiously since February, by Wednesday night I had completed the 17 cross-stitched QR codes (only one Baritone tag of each set will have the code), a full set of DS's yellow rose luggage tags, my Secret Sister's tag (green 16-patch), the director's tag (paper airplane), and a single tag for the remaining 6 Baritones:

I might fix CA's tag's twin, now that I see the error.

My Baritones got their single tag in their thank-you card with a promise of the second matching one to be completed and delivered ASAP. Given all the other projects that popped up in the month I had to make these, I'm grateful I was able to give them something this weekend! I was also quite pleased to find a couple of scrappy 16-patch blocks in one of my scrap drawers, at the ready to be turned into TJ's luggage tags. Those saved me a good hunk of time!

As I created each Baritone tag, I cut and set aside the scraps necessary to make a duplicate. Now that I have the time, it'll be a joy to assemble all the "twins". Once that's done, I can play with fabrics that have come to be associated with the two quartets (through the gifts I've made over the years). Without a deadline hanging over my head, it's going to be a pleasurable--although incredibly fiddly--project again.