Best Marking Pencil

For very dark fabrics, I like a nail-whitener pencil:

it can be sharpened, and make a very fine line.I also have several colors of tailor's chalk, and some "disappearing markers", plus a chalk wheel, with different colors.

There is ah huge selection of marking instruments here:

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A lot of the time I just use an ordinary fine propelling pencil with an HB lead. Fine enough not to show too much, and many marks get trimmed off anyway...

When I do need something else, it depends on the fabric. Chalk is fine for rough fabrics, and I use qu8ilt marking fabrics for other things. I even use a biro on things like vinyl and coated fabrics!

There's a package of water soluable marking pencils in red, blue and white that I believe I bought from Clotilde. They look like regular pencils in that they have wood casings, but they are larger. They write like a colored pencil, but they wash out as well. These are the best I have found. I also quilt and found myself always running out of ink with the ink pens. These pencils obviously don't have that problem. One word of warning, though, don't press with an iron on the mark or you may set it.