Removing Pencil marks
 

I am hand quilting a quilt for a lady and she marked it with a regular pencil ,and I believe sh e washed it .how can I get the pencil marks when I am finished quilting it? Or will it be impossible?

If she marked it I would let her take care of the markings.

Anyone have a direct answer? I inherited a quilt that was marked with pencil. Unfortunately, Grandma passed away 50 years ago. But I would give up the quilt just to be able to talk to her one more time.

I mark my quilts with regular pencil all the time and it always has come out when I have done my final wash.

I would never use a pencil to mark a quilt. There are so many water removable or air removable pens out there that work so much better.

Same here. Only had a problem one time when I got very heavy handed on a white fabric and changed my quilting plan. Even then with dish soap, a toothbrush and some elbow grease all was good after final washing.

I saw in one of these blog posts several months ago that someone had success using one of those rubber erasers that you can get at an office store similar to this http://www.amazon.com/Sanford-Design...=rubber+eraser

I haven't tried it so don't know whether it really works or not. Good luck!

That eraser is also called an art gum eraser and it should work. When I hand quilt...I don't do it often...I use a mechanical pencil with thin lead...the draw lines are light and so thin the waxed thread covers them.....

My grandmother made over 50 quilts.....at least 20 in the 60's-70's. She hand pieced and hand quilted every one of them. She used nothing but pencil to mark her quilts and not one still had pencil markings when she gave them as gifts....except the last one she made in 1987 because I have never washed it. :-)

I often use pencil, the marks have always disappeared when the quilt was laundered after completion. If you are quilting it for someone else are you also binding it? If not just return it to her when you are finished quilting, she can/ will take care of that after the binding. There are fabric erasers but I prefer just laundering. And usually hand quilting thread is heavy enough to cover pencil lines so its not usually a concern