Question About Marking Tools
#11
Originally Posted by CompulsiveQuilter
I have depended on this board to "find" the best marking system and the only one that a majority like is the chacoliner chalk roller. I've yet to try it - haven't had to mark in a while, but I will soon and it's a mixed light/dark quilt so I plan to buy two different color markers. I did use kid's washable markers (at first, and even now) I find I'm most comfortable with thick lines. I've heard yellow doesn't come out and no colors come out if ironed. I used tons of Shout. But I'm ready to move on.
#13
This is a topic I have been very interested in. I am a tape person. I do a lot of straight line hand quilting and I use painters tape and 1/4 in tape to mark when I have the piece in my hoop. I never leave it on more than a day.
This is all that I can suggest.
This is all that I can suggest.
#14
i'm a #2 pencil or tape person. If i can't mark the quilt w/ one of those 2 utensils, i do something different. I mark light enough that i can see where to quilt w/ the pencil. Alot of times it just wears off.
#15
I use a light graphite mechanical pencil on the lighter fabrics. A white art eraser will erase those marks. On darker fabrics I use a sliver of white Dove soap. I shave it down to a sharp edge. Those marks come out in the wash. Simple, easy, inexpensive and guaranteed to work any time, every time.
#16
I use a white chaco liner. I have a yellow but it doesn't seem to come out as easily. If I'm using light fabric where the chaco liner doesn't show, I use masking tape. I only do straight line quilting though.
#17
Originally Posted by Deborah12687
I got fustrated with all those pencils as they wouldn't mark very dark so went to a thin marker and I was always off because of the bleeding. I found that the gel pens work well.
#19
I used the tape when doing straight line marking but for my free motion quilting stitches I needed something different. I hadn't thought of #2 pencils or the Dove soap. The chaco liner I used was yellow so I tossed it. I haven't tried the white yet. The iron-off marker is sold at Joann's.
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