Does anyone know of a permanent pen that can be used on dark fabric?? I am making a jazz quilt for SO who is a musician, and want to use some of his original compositions in a few blocks. My background fabric is a deep blue salt batik. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Gail Jas
I use the gel pens that are sold for writing on black/dark paper. I've made their inks permanent on quilt labels by heat-setting. (And this was acomplished without treating the fabric first) Before you use them on your fabric, test the permanence on a scrap of the fabric: ===> write on it, heat-set it, wet, lather & scrub, dry
Thanks Mickie. What you suggest makes sense. I can hardly wait to try. I might also try "the sunny window test" just to see what happens. Gail Jas
If the gel pens don't come out dark enough...er, light enough ....you might want to test the paint pens you'd find at somewhere like Michael's or Hobby Lobby in the artist's section. I'm not sure how well they'd handle washing, but they would definitely come out pure white on dark fabric.....
--pig
Try a gel pen. Most of them are permanent when heat set. Test it out.
Pati, in Phx
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