My sulky white ink transfer pen is in the garbage! I carefully followed directions to get the ink flowing and the little ball on the tip just won't move Also, I think the ink might be all dried up. Naturally, I think there's a design flaw in the pen, not the fact that it's been in a drawer for more than a year and probably on the shop's shelf for even longer.
Can anyone recommend products that'll allow me to trace/transfer/whatever designs on to dark fabric?
A silver gel pen works great. I have found they don't run or bleed into fabrics.
Linda
I'm sure someone will come up with a newer, better idea, but I always used dressmakers carbon paper. It comes off easily. I suppose you can still get it either in a fabric store, or a quilt shop.
Lucille
Yes you can, but be careful. There is a new one which proudly says "no wax", but what they don't tell you is it comes off as a powder which spreads all over your work. I can use it for marking toiles, but not for real fabric.
There are quite a number of different marking pencils on the market these days, just investigate the Notions Wall at JoAnn's.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans
Don't forget to look in the Quilting department -- there are a *lot* of marking pens/pencils over there.
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I use clover chacopy transfer paper for dark fabrics, it is wonderful.
Since its my school semester break I have been using my free time playing games like
Try good old fashioned tracing paper that is used for tracing patterns. Instead of using the little wheelie thing, you can use a stylus. I use graphite paper (Saral) for transferring onto light or mid-tones. But, I have a bunch of white, yellow paper for doing sewing transfers. You could also use a chaco pencil, or tailor's chalk - there are tons of thins for quilt marking - which would work if you're on a light box. The transfer paper that is used in garment sewing will work if you put your pattern on top, fabric below, and then the paper can be either between the pattern and fabric, or below the fabric facing up (depending on how you're going to sew and like to mark). Any sewing store will have. I've also used metallic colored pencil to do this.
Ellice
Don't know if this is on the lines of how you like to do the transfer, but a thought is to use a DARK T-SHIRT TRANSFER SHEET. This is the item that is for printing designs to be put on t-shirts and things, there are also ones for light colour backgrounds.
Avery 03279 is the number of the product, it comes in 8.5" x 11" sheets with 5 sheets per package.
Most ink jet printers [except ones that use heat to print] and graphic software can be used with the sheets. Avery even gives a program to print the designs properly from most common graphic file types if you need it, but it can be done from design programs without it, just have to remember to reverse the design when you print so that it comes out the right way when you iron it on the item.
I've used transfer sheets frequently but they leave a 'waxy' surface which I don't want for this project.
I found some white and yellow 'carbon' paper in my stash which I think I'll use when I get around to the project -- the beaded and sequined masks from Kenneth King's Designer Bead Embroidery. I haven't decided if I want to do them on the same piece of ground or do them separately. Decisions, decisions
A "waxy" surface! Haven't tried these yet on any thing since they are for dark items, good to know about the surface left.
I get 'new' paper stock to have >> Don't know if this is on the lines of how you like to do the transfer,
Don't throw away your not so floppy disks or CDs. They make excellent stiffeners for ornaments. Google for CD pin keepers and you'll see some awesome creativity.
CDs are also handy as bird-scarers. We hung half a dozen CDs on a length of wire over our strawberry patch last year and they were quite successful
My 13-yr old strung some CDs together and used them for decorating her room! now if she'd just clean it! LOL
Donna in S. Indiana
"Gerald & Donna McIntosh" ..
Ah well, no matter how messy it gets, you can rest assured it will not attract crows.
Dawne
I used Floppy discs for one of my artworks ,, using it also as a symbol .[ =knowing they have Info on them] .. I have more but don`t feel i would use them again in the same way ..
hard dics can be crochted upon with a netlike crochet and than used for various things. mirjam
Reading that takes me back 60 years to my first years in school when we used the cardboard tops from our free school milk to make some sort of raffia. I've no idea what the purpose of the final product was.
oh ok. interesting to know.
might be a while before i get to try, between ct scans, blood work, and doctors lately. also not to mention migraines coming on more than normal [i am getting to hate major weather changes]..............but still into the files for later though.
thanks
At least floppies and cd's are something, when i first started playing with 'home computers' they were boxes that had to have each code line enter every time you wanted to use it using 8 switches for the binary code and a 9th to tell it to enter that code line and finally one to run program with the results having to be read from the lights over the switches.
After that there were larger business computers that used the paper cards for the program, and hopefully you didn't spill the cards on the floor. Then you'd have to take a week to re-sort the hundreds or maybe thousands of cards again, reading the punched holes where your eyes went crossed after a few hours. Then they got the sorter machine that actually read the card number.
LMAO
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