Water Erasable Pens
#1
I've a question that am hoping someone can answer. Several months ago, I bought a pair of water erasable pens, 1 blue, 1 white. I used the blue a bit to design for practicing FMQ and I used the white to mark designs on another quilt for hand quilting, a block at a time. I got 7 blocks done, a bit of FMQ practice done and then put the pens aside for the next 2 months to work on The Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt. A few days ago, I went back to my other projects and I cannot get either one of the water erasable pens to give forth any ink. I'm assuming they've dried up, but the caps were on and it seems a bit absurd that they dried up in 2 months' time so I've decided I'll not be buying any more of those. Have any of you had your WEPs dry up if you don't use them regularly?
#5
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I keep my marking pens in a zip-lock bag when I'm not using them and try to store that with the "business ends" down - seems to help some, but I've also found the F & P white marking pencils work very well (also available in grey if you need).
#6
Originally Posted by amma
I have one that I have been using off/on for a couple of years...
I've bought so many marking tools that are useless or virtually useless that I've lost count, so I'm frustrated and really leery about buying anything new. When I couldn't get my pens to write the other day, I used white artist chalk on a black quilt block. I'll be interested to see how well that comes off when I get the quilting done. I have loads of both white and blue artist chalk. If it comes off o.k., I can use it whenever I use templates; I suspect it is too fat for freehand drawing. I also have tiny chalk sticks and a special holder for them, but they are too flimsy and break at the least little pressure put on them, so that's one of the virtually useless items in my collection.
#10
My pens dried up also. I also bought some fabric glue sticks from JoAnn that were dried up right out of the package. I threw away the first time it happened but then it happened again and I got my money back. I won't buy them again.
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