What's your favorite marking tool?

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"Jalynne" wrote:

Pencil, pen, chalk, whatever you use to mark quilt tops....what is the one
thing you
absolutely swear by, and why?


When I absolutely *must* mark (and believe me, I'll do almost anything
to avoid it g), I like a Prismacolor pencil (peach color). It comes
out easily and is very visible on every color I've tried it on. Best of
all, it's cheap! G I've tried white pencils, soapstone markers, all
sorts of things. I do like the blue wash-out pens, but this pencil is
great for colors that I can't usually mark easily.

Oh, and my newest "like" in this department is the Press & Seal. It
makes it possible to avoid having to have a template or light box/sunny
window, and you can machine quilt right through it. However, I wouldn't
want to hand quilt with it! g
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Jalynne wrote:
Pencil, pen, chalk, whatever you use to mark quilt tops....what is the one thing you
absolutely swear by, and why?

For dark fabrics, what my Dad used to call the "irreducible minimum" of
hand soap. (Not the liquid, which most folks seem to use nowadays - I'm
old-fashioned and use the solid stuff!) When you have a thin sliver
of it, the mark is clear, and brushes off when you want it to.
Wendy (not Joe - he's the color consultant and computer maven)

In addition to all the other things that have been mentioned, I use
Crayola washable markers. They wash out nicely. I try to use a color
that gives me enough contrast to see the marked lines, but won't be too
noticeable if washing leaves a trace of color (for example, I use blue
to mark light blue), but I have never had them not wash out completely.

Julia in MN
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When using stencils, I use the Quilt Pounce. I just got it and really like
it. I use it on my frame for machine quilting. It wouldn't work for hand
quilting tho. The last thing I used for hand quilting was a light pencil. I
haven't finished the project so I don't know if the pencil will come out. It
has been a few years now sigh since I started it. I didn't really answer
the question, now, did I? Sorry......... :-)

Laurie G.

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In addition to all the other things that have been mentioned, I use
Crayola washable markers. They wash out nicely. I try to use a color that
gives me enough contrast to see the marked lines, but won't be too
noticeable if washing leaves a trace of color (for example, I use blue to
mark light blue), but I have never had them not wash out completely.

Julia in MN
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A friend of mine did use the Press & Seal with a hand quilting project and
she said it wasn't a problem.

Dee in LeRoy, NY

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In article . net,
"Jalynne" wrote:

Pencil, pen, chalk, whatever you use to mark quilt tops....what is the
one
thing you
absolutely swear by, and why?


When I absolutely *must* mark (and believe me, I'll do almost anything
to avoid it g), I like a Prismacolor pencil (peach color). It comes
out easily and is very visible on every color I've tried it on. Best of
all, it's cheap! G I've tried white pencils, soapstone markers, all
sorts of things. I do like the blue wash-out pens, but this pencil is
great for colors that I can't usually mark easily.

Oh, and my newest "like" in this department is the Press & Seal. It
makes it possible to avoid having to have a template or light box/sunny
window, and you can machine quilt right through it. However, I wouldn't
want to hand quilt with it! g
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:41:13 GMT, "Jalynne"
wrote:

Pencil, pen, chalk, whatever you use to mark quilt tops....what is the one thing you
absolutely swear by, and why?

Depends on what I am quilting.
Stright grid, masking tape for hand quilting, pounceline for machine
Machined motifs or endless non-straightlines on fabric that isn't too
dark, crayola washables
Motifs or complex designs by hand, or machined on dark fabric, chalk
or a white conte or yarka crayon
_Really_ complex patterns (machine or hand), dressmakers carbon.

I am planning on giving press and seal a shot sometime soon, I have
messed about with it but haven't used it for a serious application
yet.
All the soap in the house is either liquid, glycerine, or special
application, plus I tend to have bad reactions to a goodly number of
commercial soaps, so I have never done the drawing with soap trick.

I purely despise those vanishing markers. Not only do they vanish at
the most inconvienient moment, but that purple doesn't really show
very well on anything but truly light colors.

NightMist
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it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole

Aha......... for black and darks I love the Clover fine line white
marking pen. It does come off with moisture and/or the iron. makes a
nice fine line. But remember that it takes a few seconds to dry and
show up.
I also like my soapstone pencil, and the white pencil that has a
"natural" wood outer part that I get from TreadleArts out of CA. (Just
went and got one, says "General's * Charcoal white * No.558.) I am
also testing out the Roxanne's Quilter's Choice pencils in silver and
white. They are supposed to be quite good, i f they haven't been
dropped and broken inside.

Good luck.
Pati, in Phx

Jalynne wrote:

Just to clarify, I'm marking on black and other dark colors, and it's a queen quilt
that will be hand quilted, so anything that dusts off easily would be a no go for
me...LOL.

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"DDM" wrote:

A friend of mine did use the Press & Seal with a hand quilting project and
she said it wasn't a problem.

Dee in LeRoy, NY


That's good to know, Dee!
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