Marking stencils on your quilt

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Originally Posted by Sylvia H

Interesting that Claire and Love My Machines have differing results from their experiments. I still have to run a few tests of my own.

I have been using the Sewline air erasable marker on my grandson's quilt. I am liking it more and more. With these humid days, the markings don't even last a full day, so I have to make sure to quilt immediately after marking. The marks also can be removed with just water. The only downside is that it marks purple, and so it can't be seen on very dark fabrics.

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It might be that I washed the quilt then tried to get the markings to appear using ice and she made the markings appear with cold and then tried to wash them out. Not sure what the difference is but I will continue to use them, it rarely gets that cold here to make a mark reappear anyway. I do always wash quilts other than wall hangings after completion. I don't do a whole lot of marking since it is so time consuming and I have trouble following marked lines, LOL.:D

I am old school. I use The General's chalk pencil from the Fat Quarter Shop. I have one blue and one white. Makes a nice crisp line that removes in the wash every time. I am curious about the Crayola markers. I hand quilt so sometimes it takes 9-10 months to quilt afyer the initial marking. Will Crayola marks still show that long? Will they still be removable after that long?

I have found that the frixion pens when used on white fabric does not go fully invisible. I had to replace some fabric pieces....I would not use for quilt marking. It's good for just marking cutting lines for piecing though. But the ink is still slightly visible on white/light fabric.

I read with interest all the comments about marking pens. I bought 2 blue Frixion pens at my LQS last week. So far I've been using them just for marking lines while making my hourglass blocks. After reading all this, I may not use them to mark a quilt top. In the past, I've used the blue Mark B Gone pens. That always washes out in cold water. It sounds like the jury is still out on the Frixion pens. JCY

What do you use for dark fabrics? I bought a white chalk pencil, but it broke after a line or two and I had to resharpen it again and again. I ended up with hardly any pencil left at all and my black quilt with hardly any markings. So I went and bought another one, same thing happened!
Do crayolas show up on dark fabrics? I'm not even sure I can get them around here...

For dark fabrics I have frixion highlighter in neon colors pink, yellow orange. If I still can't see I am forced to get out the white pounce which is iron off. Not my favorite method to messy with powder flying everywhere, and the lines are not crisp. But it works.

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Originally Posted by Iris Girl

For dark fabrics I have frixion highlighter in neon colors pink, yellow orange. If I still can't see I am forced to get out the white pounce which is iron off. Not my favorite method to messy with powder flying everywhere, and the lines are not crisp. But it works.

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According to the ads in various magazines and online, the Frixion NEON highlighters "ARE NOT MEANT FOR FABRIC". Don't know if that means they become permanent or maybe rot the fabric, but I'll take their word for it.

Crayons now makes Ultra Washable Markers, for anyone who is interested in trying them. I just bought a few boxes for my daughters classroom but I think I'll keep one and use them from now on! I think they were $1.97 at Walmart this week for a 10 pack.

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Originally Posted by Littlelisa

Crayons now makes Ultra Washable Markers, for anyone who is interested in trying them. I just bought a few boxes for my daughters classroom but I think I'll keep one and use them from now on! I think they were $1.97 at Walmart this week for a 10 pack.

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Oops, meant crayola.

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Originally Posted by Tabbster

According to the ads in various magazines and online, the Frixion NEON highlighters "ARE NOT MEANT FOR FABRIC". Don't know if that means they become permanent or maybe rot the fabric, but I'll take their word for it.

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They work fine for me I can see them on black and they iron off just like the regular frixion pens and I have never seen any marks or discolorations come back. Just checked my package and no where on it does it say not for fabric.