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Originally Posted by LivelyLady
(Post 5105821)
I love the frixion pens too! I also use slivers of soap for marking dark fabric, but am hoping they come out with a white frixion pen.
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I'll wait five years and if no complaints then I'll try them!!!!
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thanks for the information on the sewline fabric pencils
Originally Posted by ghostrider
(Post 5105959)
I use the Sewline fabric pencils. They're ceramic 'leads' in a mechanical pencil and the lines come out by either erasing with any soft eraser or with water (I use a small artist's brush to just 'paint' water over the lines). The leads come in white, gray, and several colors for use on any color of fabric. I like that the lines are very fine, don't rub off while you're working, yet come out easily when you want them to. http://www.sewline-product.com/Sewline_Fabric_Pencil
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On dark fabrics I use a chalk marker which works very well indeed. It has a fine metal wheel that dispenses powdered chalk on a nice fine to medium line that is just fine for sewing.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/770987802-...-chalk-marker/ I use these and markers on the back side of the fabric only. |
The pens are acid free and archival so that's about as safe as you can get using a marking pen. I had a white line left on dark fabric but when I washed the quilt it went away.
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I've done my own test with these pens and they worked fine. I think the key is whether you are going to wash the quilt or not. I wouldn't use them on a wall hanging or an art quilt.
I recently used a green one on a white on white whole cloth quilt. The lines disappeared with the iron as they should. I then washed it in the washing machine with Tide. I did not let it agitate, just soak. Then rinsed it by machine, folded it up and put in in the deep freezer. I came back 2 hours later to a frozen quilt - but not a mark on it. Unfolded the frozen quilt, tossed it into a medium heat dryer and it's beautiful I agree, - always test a new marking product before using. As for dark quilts, I haven't used one on that yet. |
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