feline fanatic

Thanks!

I hate marking so try to do as little as possible. When I have a motif that repeats, like the feather in the outer parallelograms in this quilt I used a flexible curve ruler like this http://www.amazon.com/Staedtler-24-I.../dp/B0006IK3LM I bend it into the shape I need to repeat, which in this case was the spine of the feather and the top arc for the swirl. I actually formed the arc around one of my circle templates. In some instances I will draw out a template on watercolor paper or card stock and cut it out. That works well too. Then I will use either a water soluble blue marker like Mark-b-gone pen for the light colors or my fons and porter white ceramic mechanical pencil on the dark color and mark that single line. I have also used white chalk like a clover chalko liner or this product but only the white, http://www.amazon.com/Bohin-Mechanic...l+chalk+pencil I have heard horror stories of the other colors not coming out so never use them. On occasion I have also used the purple air erase pen. By far my most favorite marking tool is the Blue Mark-B-Gone pens.