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Marking quilts, part 2–a bit fiddly but not too….

There are times when you actually have to mark a quilt top. One example is the lettering on the top and bottom borders of my nativity quilt (the next post). Another is an intermediate amount of fussiness: marking general guidelines.

I took a series of photos showing how I use the Chaco-Liner (from Clover) marking tools. They have a couple variations…a slimline one, and now a pen-style one. I’d like to try the pen-style, but these work wonderfully. In the first photo, you can see my white Chaco Liner in the top right of the photo with the cover removed.

In the first photo, I laid several of my circle templates on a piece of cloth.

In the second photo, I am using the white chaco-liner to outline one of the circles.

When I remove the plastic templates, you can see the lines easily. These DO dust off easily, so this is a method to use when you are going to quilt right away. If you fold up the top, the markings will smudge away.

On the left, in this photo, I just drew some curvy lines. On the nativity quilt, when I did the writing on the quilt, I simply marked lines to use (just as we use lined paper to keep our handwriting orderly) for the quilting.

Here are some of my favorite marking tools:

on the left are my blue and white Chaco-Liners. The refills on these are great…unscrew the cap. Unscrew the cap on the refill bottle and screw the bottle onto the chaco-liner and squeeze…. no way to spill! Even I can do it without making a mess!!!!

Top to bottom:

The tried-and-ture blue wash-out pens…great when you have a light background.

EZ marking pencil…all the ones that are kinda fat pencils with no paint are the same.

Roxanne’s quilter’s pencils (come in silver and white…this one is silver); soft lead but gets a sharp point, washes out nicely

Clover Chacopel chalk pencils … come in a set and I love them…soft chalk, sharpen to a sharp point, don’t dust off as easily as the chaco-liner, but still don’t require a full-immersion bath to remove…use the little brush that comes on the pencils!

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