Thread: Best marking tool?

I use chalk for everything except white. I would like to try the special pencils but I worry about what chemicals will do to fabric over twenty years time.

I use powered chalk with one of the those wheels. I comes off beautifully without washing. Be sure to test any product before you use it on your quilt.

fixon pens. I love them and they iron off

I have made quilts using the Frixon pens for all of my kids - who live in Fairbanks, AK. The current temperature there is 14 degrees. Once when I was there it was 55 degrees below zero. Being as they keep their quilts in the house, and not outside, the pen marks have never "returned". This is more than "good enough" for me. I will continue to use the Frixon pens because I love them.

Originally Posted by OrangeSherbet

These markers have been evaluated:

http://quiltingclimber.blogspot.com/...evaluated.html

I have one, but think I will not use it...

I use these Frixon pens and love them, too. I have tried every other thing that I have heard of, and the Frixon pens are by far the best.

Originally Posted by sept97

fixon pens. I love them and they iron off

oops sorry Frixon pens

I use the white chalk marking pencil too. Soap will also do the trick if you are planning on washing it when its done.

It's hard to find a good marking pencil for black fabric. I found a white gel pen that works great. I test mark on a piece of the fabric before I mark the quilt and so far the gel marks have washed away. It's a very fine point and I can't even see the mark under the thread before I wash it even if it doesn't happen to wash out.
I use thee Sanford Uni-Ball Gel Impact pen, white color. For light fabric I use the Frixon pens. I don't go by other's guess of what will happen to the quilt in a hundred years if I use the pens. Who cares that much?