Quilting Pencils
#12
I had bought white pencils, I think "general" brand, the wood natural looking pencils for my mom. They work great and we ended up buying a bunch more. Never have problems sharpening them, but found some blue and yellow by same brand and can't get them to work in any of my sharpeners without breaking, so I just use a sharp knife and "sharpen" them the old-fashioned way. The lead doesn't get pointy, but at least they are usable.
#13
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Join Date: May 2008
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How do you successfully sharpen these pencils? Some of them are too big to go in my pencil sharpener. Others just break and break and break.
A bad idea: I used lead pencil darkly to mark a quilt thinking it would erase easily. It didn't. If marked very lightly, it's not too bad.
A very very very bad idea: Using any sort of ink pen.
I have seen faded marks on some pieces - possibly from the wash-out or fade-away markers.
If doing straight-line quilting, the masking/quilter's tape works fairly well.
A bad idea: I used lead pencil darkly to mark a quilt thinking it would erase easily. It didn't. If marked very lightly, it's not too bad.
A very very very bad idea: Using any sort of ink pen.
I have seen faded marks on some pieces - possibly from the wash-out or fade-away markers.
If doing straight-line quilting, the masking/quilter's tape works fairly well.
#14
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Verona , Virginia
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I have bought white quilting pencils , they broke . Sharpened down to a stub . Tried white colored pencils , not much better . Bearisgray , are your pencils the fat ones ? Like beginner crayons for little ones ? Try to find a hand pencil sharpener with 2 holes . 1 small for regular pencils and 1 big one [ like for fat crayons ] . That's what I did . Good luck . Babeegirl , walmart doesn't have the white or yellow lead for mechanical pencils . At least not here . I going to look at staples . I'll let you know what I find . Annie
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Connecting threads have the Fons & Porters mechnical pencils that I have heard work very well. I have used the white pencil (from WM) on dark and the purple/blue pens on lighter colors. They both work fine. I sharpen with one of those old timey hand held sharpeners with 2 size holes...if I'm not too enthusiastic...it works well.
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