Removing Pencil marks
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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?
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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.
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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!
I haven't tried it so don't know whether it really works or not. Good luck!
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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.....
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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. :-)
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