Help -- pencil marks didn't wash out
Does anyone have advice for getting out black pastel chalk pencil marks?
I bought the pencil at my LQS and marked a few quilting lines on white and yellow fabrics. Washed the quilt in Orvus soap with a Woolite Dye Magnet sheet. The pencil marks didn't fade a bit. What remedies have worked for you? Philip |
Try using liquid stain remover. This worked for a red chalk marking pencil (one
specially for quilt marking...) and I panicked, but a friend of mine calmed me down and suggested it. I put the stain remover on, let it sit for an hour, then hand washed it. -- Jalynne Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request) see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne wrote in message ... Does anyone have advice for getting out black pastel chalk pencil marks? I bought the pencil at my LQS and marked a few quilting lines on white and yellow fabrics. Washed the quilt in Orvus soap with a Woolite Dye Magnet sheet. The pencil marks didn't fade a bit. What remedies have worked for you? Philip |
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Does anyone have advice for getting out black pastel chalk pencil marks? I bought the pencil at my LQS and marked a few quilting lines on white and yellow fabrics. Washed the quilt in Orvus soap with a Woolite Dye Magnet sheet. The pencil marks didn't fade a bit. What remedies have worked for you? May I suggest before you start experimenting on your quilt that you take some of the same fabric and mark it? Once you find what works you can then use it on the quilt itself. I'd also call the LQS and tell them. If it's a pencil meant to be used for quilting they may know what to do. If it's not then they'd probably be very happy to get a warning before it happens to others. (At least I'd hope they would be!) -- Jeri "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." ~author unknown~ |
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Well, I experimented as you suggested. I marked on a scrap of the
fabric, rubbed it with Shout, and hand washed it. The marks came out. So I Shout-ed the quilt and washed it a second time. Didn't work. The pencil marks were still there. I draped the damp quilt across the back seat of my car and drove to my LQS. They were baffled, and suggested trying a fabric eraser after the quilt dried. After doing some shopping and some errands, I got home about 4 hours later. I pulled the now-dry quilt out of the car -- and there were no marks. I suppose they just faded away once the quilt was completely dry. If I'd only known.... Philip |
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