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#11
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: NY
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As Pat mentioned, clear vinyl shower curtain works great. Then get the wet erase markers from an office supply store. Personally, I am not at all crazy about the technique. I prefer to draw out my block design on paper then use tracing paper to audition motifs. If I come up with something I really like it goes into my portfolio of quilting ideas and I can do it from the comfort of my sofa without having the quilt there. Finally I am not risking the quilt at all by accidentally marking it.
#14
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 1,063
For blocks I use the plastic sheets that you use for binding reports and a dry erase pen. I get them pretty inexpensively from Staples and they hold up well. I would like to try the roll from Joann so that I can audition a larger design but so far the smaller sheets have worked well for me.
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Join Date: May 2012
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#16
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Join Date: May 2012
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if you decide to use a permanent marking pen, like sharpie, it will come off with alcohol, because the marker itself is alcohol-based. don't use other permanent markers that are solvent-based. the solvent you must use to remove the ink will probably cloud the clear whatever-you-use, and it is way stinkier than sharpies. all-in-all, i would go with the dry erase markers. just be careful not to slip off the side no matter what kind of writing instrument you use!
#18
I have used freezer paper to preview patterns on my longarm - it is almost see through enough and you can write on the dull side with a sharpie and it does not bleed through onto the quilt. Once I got the pattern I wanted, I put it on the back and used it like a pantograph. It's cheap!
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