I brush off most of my light chalk lines and sometimes use a damp face cloth to get any remaining marks. You can also wash your quilt if you have any marks remaing.
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I brush off most of my light chalk lines and sometimes use a damp face cloth to get any remaining marks. You can also wash your quilt if you have any marks remaing.
Hi Tartan..............I think chalk may be the way to go. I have never seen a box of chalk like that but I will go searching. Where do you get the sharpener?
Staples in Windsor should have them, and you can probably get a sharpener in the makeup department at Shoppers.Originally Posted by SoftBlockLady
I ordered a set from Nancy's Notions - the set of 8 was $12.00. I love them, they are 8 different colors and they come off when you press the block. Awesome!
Jeanie
I think I have a bigger problem..........was I suppose to do the marking before I basted the backing on? I did the thread basting and its only about 2-3 finger widths apart. I was going to SITD at first but decided I want to be a bit more daring. I realize now that nowhere did I read or see anything telling me what order I should do it in. All the videos that showed markings on the quilt sandwiches so I didn't no if it was done before or after it was put together.
I have used blue painter's tape. I start diagonally in the middle of the quilt and work out to one corner. Be sure to keep referring to your first reference line to make sure you are keeping all your marked lines the same width. I then will stitch those lines working my way from the center of the quilt. Then remove the tape and start on the other half of the quilt. You will need to repeat this process three more times.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
Hello ManicQuilter2........if I start at the center and work my way to the corner...don't I just flip it around and do the other half? Why 3 more times.
I think I got the white chalk at Walmart but any good brand of white chalk will do. I would not use coloured chalk as the dyes in coloured chalk may not come out. The make up sharpener I got fr the make up big lip pencils you sharpen. I wonder if you could find a sharpener with the children's supplies for sharpening the big red HB pencils or maybe the hardware stores for sharpeners for construction pencil?
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