feline fanatic

I know of a few people where the marks came back after ironing and washing so I won't use them to mark on the surface of the quilt. I will use them to mark something that will be hidden in seam allowance.

I did buy a package of frixions once for just general use and they did not write well at all. Not on paper nor fabric. I chalked it up to a bad batch or maybe they were really old like sitting on the store shelf for a long time, not sure. They still write but they don't flow smoothly and they seem to skip so it sounds like you had the same problem. I have used other frixion pens that didn't act that way. So don't assume you are doing anything wrong, they could just be a bad batch of pens.