It is my understanding that heat will remove the marks..friction...(frixion??) makes heat...they have an eraser type thing on the end of them..I would try rubbing the marks with that end and see if the friction removes the marks. Nothing to lose.

She tried that already. :(

I am leery of anything that uses a pen-type of delivery to mark fabric.

A few years ago my guild made a raffle quilt, all hand appliqued. A blue water soluble pen was used to mark the quilting lines. The quilt was hand quilted. It took about a year to finish. After the quilt was dried, some of the blue marks re appeared on the white background. Not all of them but enough to ruin the quilt. No amount of water removed the marks. The blue lines kept coming back after drying. A new quilt had to be made. We had the raffle the next year.

[QUOTE=Peckish;8284070]She tried that already. :([/QUOTE


With the eraser that's on the pens???????????

The erasers on the end don't work on fabric. I used one to mark a scrap piece of white dimple dots with blue pen. They will take off the ink on paper but leave some residue.

This would be such a disappointment, particularly for a new and enthusiastic quilter who is into newer more modern ways to making a quilt. But in the past few years, everyone, every quilting website warns against using frixion pens for just this reason. As you see, a number of them are mentioned in responses to your kind posting. Bottom line, these gel pens were not made for fabric and the glorious colors should be kept for paper.

I use them almost exclusively, but I did have trouble initially with the red, pink and orange ones leaving a 'ghostly' white line. So I only use blue and black. I have had no problem with these two causing 'leftover' images.

This is how I like to use frixion pens...
I like to test out designs of fmq for my quilts. I draw out a block to scale on graph paper, color in with colored pencils, and make a color copy. I then use my frixion pen to draw my designs on the copy version of the block. Take a picture then iron off to try a different design.
The picture helps me remember which design I like.
You need to make a color copy because the frixion pen or iron does not like the colored pencil.
I know there are a lot of steps. But I quilt on my domestic and I like to get the feel for the design I want to use.
Just one of the many ways to try out fmq designs.

Thanks for your help and tips for removing the fixion pens.

One thing I suggested to her was to try Retro Clean. I don't know if it works on the frixion pen but I know it cleans the yellow and brown stains on vintage linens and quilts.