I most often use a chalk marker for marking on darker fabrics such as the these chaco liners for white or cream colored fabrics sometimes a good solid line is what.
Pilot frixion erasable pen for quilting.
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But you ll notice that neither of the tests mentioned.
Yes batiks seem to be a problem for the frixion pens.
The pilot pen people must be perplexed they design a product for paper.
So as you might have seen last wednesday i used a red frixion pen to mark on my chevron baby quilt top this generated quite the discussion in the comments of my wip wednesday post.
And a few bloggers have done their own tests see melissa s post here and angela s post here.
Quilters come in and start using it on fabric and then complain about issues with it.
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Pilot frixion erasable gel pens the funny thing is they weren t designed for marking on fabric but quilter s have discovered this pen as being really effective.
If you want to use a frixion pen to mark quilting lines for free motion quilting the ghost marks are hard to see underneath the stitching.
I tested this out too.
I used a frixion pen first and then the gel roller.
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I quilted a sample that was unwashed and unstarched so there was definitely a ghost there but it s very hard to see it.
Some people reported having problems with the pens.