I bought a kit from a store in Edmonton, Alberta. It contained plastic bottles with various sizes of tips. You put the liquid soap used in dishwashers - but it apparently has to be white - in the bottles and simply write. There are several tips so that you can make your letters wide or narrow. I wrote on about ten squares. As the bleach that's in the liquid soap dries, the writing shows up very clearly. After I finished sewing the quilt, I washed and dried it several times to make it fray. The writing stayed the same as it looked when it dried the very first time (the initial writing). I know that in some hardware stores they sell plastic bottles with various tips for gluing. They might work.