Marking a quilting design that is clear and won't ruin the quilt
After using quilter chalk on a whole cloth quilt, I was unable to remove the marks!! Used every stain remover known to humanity and the marks still wouldn't come out. Ended up filling my bathtub with water, adding a quart of bleach and bleached the entire quilt. Would you believe those marks were still visible. Needless to say, the brilliance of the colors were considerably muted. Thank goodness my daughter loves me and loves the quilt regardless.............Now..............move ahead another few months and I made a quilt from pieces a lady gave me from a quilt her son started in the 9th grade. She wanted to give it to him as a finished quilt for Christmas. Was going to mark the dark maroon blocks with a pencil but the material was too dark and couldn't use a light box. Wasn't about to attempt any chalk. Did some research and came up with "Solvy" a water soluble stabilizer for embroidering on fleece and toweling. I traced the designs on to the Solvy and pasted them to each block with water soluble glue and proceeded to quilt. Again filled my bathtub to soak off the solvy blocks and "voila" they did dissolve fully and completely. The quilt turned out beautiful and the lady actually cried when she saw the finished quilt. Yes, solvy is the way to go when other methods don't work!! Just wanted to share this with others who maybe have had a similar problem in transferring FMQ designs to tops.