Originally Posted by sewing4kix
Hi, what is the best product/way to mark a finished quilt top? I want to do decorative stitching with my machine maybe even free motion and I'm not sure how to go about it.
I have seen iron-on transfer patterns, transfer pens, and other stuff. I bought a quilter's marker-like pen that promises to wash out or just dissapear, but it does dissapear before I have finished sewing along my pattern.
I have a design in a pattern book that I want to put along a boarder but am not sure how to get in onto my quilt so I can see it to stitch over it. I am good at free hand drawing but am just not sure.
How do you guys do this?????? Do you use a stencil and trace it on??
HELP lol!
Buy the translucent or clear acrylic sheet, and trace the pattern off onto the plastic, then carefully cut around the pattern and mark on quilt with disappearing ink, only mark small areas at a time, some inside lines you won't even have to mark as when you are stitching your eye will complete the line for you as you stitch. I recently did a couble braided cable like this and it looks perfect. :-D