Dissapearing ink pens work very well but you do have a limited time to work with it before it dissapears.
Also use the Washable Wonder Marker that is blue and washes out in water.
Ive tried so many different pens but most are just to hard to make a mark with.
Pounce works well with the mesh stencils.

I use the blue wash-away fine tip pen to mark. I had a stencil just yesterday that I wanted to use for my border. It was very light and flimsy plastic, so I pinned it in place and THEN used my marking pen. Took a little longer as I had to keep pinning it and moving it, but I got what I wanted! Most stencils are a little more firm and in that case I just hold it, mark, and move on. I love the blue marking pen....just use my spray bottle when I'm done and it's gone!

Sannianni tried pencils and stencils. I've also tried both.

Wouldn't it be better to use on iron-on design, or a quilt-size stencil (so we wouldn't have to keep replacing and mis-matching the design)? If we applied either of these to the back before sandwiching, would that work?

You can tell I'm very new to this art. I don't even know if either of these products exist! If they do, please tell me where I can purchase them, especially the iron-on design.

Me too and I have found this works best for me since I am still in the learning process of FMQ.

Oh! Y'all are talking about machine quilting?

I meant for hand-quilting. I machine piece all my tops and hand quilt it all together.

I use the Ultimate pencil made just for quilts or the Berol silver or white marking pencils. They all wash out very easy. I hand quilt all my quilts.

I use water soluble pens. I also bought a stencil burner at JoAnns. Haven't used it yet. I have such nice patterns in a notebook. I want to burn them onto the stencil plastic so that I can use them on my quilts. Not a huge selection of stencils to buy.

So, it looks like everyone's drawing directly onto the fabric, right?

Is there no such thing as an iron-on quilt back design? Am I the only one who even desires such a thing? It just seems like it would be much quicker, easier and more accurate to iron the design on than to trace it. You know, like those Aunt Martha iron-on embroidery transfers.

Jazz, this would seem like such a good idea. Wonder why it hasn't been done?

A pounce is the very best , fastes and easiest to mark with stencils

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