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I use a Prang White Vinyl Block Eraser from Dixon. It works good to remove pencil marks from fabric.

Mavia

Miss Kitty,

Do you need Aunt Cheryl to mail you one?

Thank you, Aunt Mavia. I wasn't sure whether my life was worth saving when Mom threatened to lock me on the back porch in 40 degrees overnight. I hope it works and she lets me sleep in the bed tonight.

Purrrrrrr, Miss Kitty

Karen C - California ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I will be as interested as you to see the replies because I have never found anything - if you get a really soft eraser you will have slightly better luck.

Mom was going to hike over to the art supply store, but if you can save her a trip out in this wind, she might forgive me faster.

Love, Miss Kitty

Well, Miss Kitty, I can't get to Staples until Friday; have her let me know...

Try this:

Take some ordinary white bread (supermarket stuff will do), pull out the white part from the middle of one slice or perhaps two, and leave the crusts. Fold it a couple of times, into a ball, then press it onto the pencil marks and lift it off again with a rolling motion - side to side or bottom to top. If this lifts off any of the pencil lead (it should), fold the soiled part of the bread into the middle and repeat the process. When the bread dough is getting grey and horrid, get a new piece.

This is a very old-fashioned remedy, let us know if it works.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Actually, I found a mechanical pencil here with a white eraser, and that combined with warm water seems to have done the trick.

Thank you all for your suggestions. The cat will be permitted to live.

Good for removing grubby marks from wallpaper, too.

Pat

And it's best to use the really tacky, cheap, sliced bread. "Real bread" as made at home is not nearly so effective.

Ditto - any of the vinyl or plastic erasers - Staedtler makes a couple of them - should work. Not a rubber, gummy one. You could also try an artists kneadable eraser - those take up the graphite and then you just knead it into the interior - but I'd stick with the white vinyl types.

Ellice

Those work well too - but bread`s FREE (virtually) - as well as being at hand! I endorse what Bruce said about the tackier the bread, the better!

Pat

Talking about Bruce - I believe you`re back in Winter up your end of the country! I`d best duck before telling you that it was in the high sixties down here - BEAUTIFUL weather! What was that about the sun shining on the righteous? ;-P

Pat

No winter up here, Pat. No frost or snow either. Cloudy today (Friday) but almost no breeze and not exactly cold either. Last weekend I gave the grass its first cut of the year and have put some bedding plants into Maureen's raised beds. Don't believe the weather forecasts when the talk of bad weather in "the north" - they probably mean somewhere around Aberdeen or maybe Inverness. According to the Orcadian website our forecast is "temperatures in the daily range 7° down to 5° Celsius today. Milder on Saturday and Sunday with temperatures in the daily range 10° down to 6° Celsius generally"

They actually said "Scotland`s Northern Isles" so I immediately thought of you! We are expecting to touch at leasr seventy in the next couple of days - turns a bit nippy at night, though.

Pat

I think the Met Office sometimes gets confused and thinks that Scotland's Northern Isles include the Faroes, Greenland and Iceland And there are a number of people who get confused by the way that maps are presented and really do think that Orkney & Shetland lie in the North Sea, just a little way to the east of Aberdeen. Mind you today was overcast, chilly and damp whereas some friends from Scarborough phoned and said their weather was lovely

Bruce, I have to laugh at this. My husband (my current #2) met my daughter when she was in the second year of college. A year later he went to Alaska on business. She said "Is that southwest of California?". That is where they stick Hawaii and Alaska on the usual USA map. At that point he gave up on American education.

I might point our she now is 44, has her masters degree, is extremely knowledgeable in her field, pulls in a six figure income...but don't ask her which is left, and which is right LOL

Gillian

Gill Murray wrote: > At that

I frankly think the only redeeming quality of American education is that it is free to all, so there's no excuse for not availing yourself of it.

But it says something about the system that nowadays the majority of college students (immigrants and native born alike) need to take Remedial English and Remedial Math their freshman year. Back in the Dark Ages when I went to college, you wouldn't have been admitted if you hadn't learned what you should have learned in high school. The chancellor assures us that the students do not receive college credits for remedial classes, which I guess is a good thing, but doesn't address the fact that the only people who should be taking English for Idiots are the foreign-born students.

But you can tell DH that I understand exactly why DD is confused on the location of Alaska and Hawaii. It was not until we got to World History (I think that was 11th grade?) that our school showed us a full-world map in which they were in their correct locations. In our American History classroom, we had the US-only map that showed Alaska off the coast of Los Angeles.

When we came to America for husband`s work . A teacher suggested to my son to take Spanish , since Spain was according to her "only the other side of `our` Lake" ....... But theu also were facinated by the `ability to calculate in Decimals`. mirjam