gale

Your link doesn't work-it's been truncated so you can't copy/paste a shortened link by just highlighting the link. You have to right click and click 'copy link' or whatever. Is this the page you're looking for? If so it's about labeling quilts, not marking them for quilting.
http://www.freckledwhimsy.com/2010/0...ns-to-use.html

Michellesews

The marks return in the cold FOREVER no matter how much you wash them. They also dry out very quickly. I only use air erase pens on my quilts.

Cass62

Although I have used Frixion pens and I really like them a lot, I am cautious when using them. I've never had a problem with the ink not washing out, but I'm careful to only mark areas for cutting, which would be hidden in a seam if it came back. I don't use them for marking quilting designs.

Yes, our homes are warm inside, but what if I made a quilt for my granddaughter, wrapped it for Christmas, and took it to her house to give it to her? It is often below 0 here in Wyoming, and just getting a package into the car exposes the contents to very low temperatures. Have you ever taken a quilt to a high school football game? That could also expose the quilt to temperatures low enough to reveal the markings. The point made about quilts being sent to shows via airline is another situation that we need to consider.

I won't stop using Frixion pens, but like I said, I am cautious and suggest that we all use care when marking our quilts.

HouseDragon

The fact that now you see it, now you don't, now you see it again makes me leery of using them at all. The chemicals are obviously not washed out.

For marking (especially quilting lines/designs) I use Fons & Porter's pencils: one with white chalk, one with graphic. They have fine points and the marks completely wash out.

cdmmiracles

I have a quilted pillow gift from a friend that used the black frixion pen on white fabric....this gift has gotten very cold several times and no lines have returned. My friend loves them.

Scakes

I bought 1 of these pens but am scared to use it after hearing about everyone's experiences. Maybe I'll give it to the grandkids as an art pen. LOL.

HouseDragon

That would be "graphite" in the pencil.

winia

I took a hand quilting class from a woman who has been quilting since she was a child. She explained a couple of the new ways of marking, such as the Frixion and other pens, but you could tell her heart wasn't in it. Finally she said she uses a No. 2 pencil for light fabrics and tailor's chalk for dark fabrics. I have been using the No. 2 pencil for light fabrics, and it works beautifully. It never causes a problem with being retained by the fabric, and it even starts disappearing as you're quilting. I have a Sewline marker, and I use that in white for dark fabrics since I'm not going to go out and buy any chalk until all my white is gone. Keep it simple is the correct way of marking fabric for me.

Sewnoma

I took a Harriet Hargrave class and this was her point as well. She says we don't know what those chemicals do to the fabric long-term, either - it could be weakening the fibers and we won't know until a decade later. So she recommended against Frixion pens for that reason.

I tried them anyway and I don't like them because apparently I make my lines too fast - they vanish as soon as I make them, probably from the heat of the ball point rolling over the fabric too quickly. I love my blue water-erase markers, as long as I'm careful not to let the iron hit them they wash out so cleanly and easily. I use old fashioned tailor's chalk for anything that will need to endure heat.

teddy300

Be careful, these pens can bleach the color out of some batiks when ironed.