I need advice on marking a quilt.

Are you machine quilting it or doing it the right way by hand quilting? (ducking and running)

What about using that stuff that's like glad wrap? Ooooh what's it called? Peel and Seal? The clear stuff that you can draw on, stuck to your quilt, sew through and then rip off.

Oooh (the frustration) someone must know!

Machine quilting and never heard of Peel and Seal here in UK. Shirley

In message , Sharon Harper writes

I don't think that it's available in the UK.

Megwen

Bath, England

Using spray adhesive to attach the Golden Threads paper is a marvellous idea. Up to now I have only pinned it, and it is difficult to keep it exactly in position. However, spraying it would be perfect. Is it the same spray adhesive as for sticking batting into the sandwich? Thanks for the idea, Bev. . In message , " snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" writes

Megwen is right, sadly you can't get Press 'n' Seal in the UK. However you can get Golden Threads paper in many places - Cotton Patch in Birmingham for one. You can order online from them (I think it is

or by mail order. I also use the Quilt Room and Quilt Direct, + Creative Grids for tools etc. All available by online and mail order with extremely good service.

All that aside, Shirley, you might not need to quilt with a design on this, your first, quilt. There are many things you can do very simply - no frustration!

Can you just remind us of what you have made (blame the old memory!)? (I have black dots for the first two messages of this thread. That might mean that I didn't get the posts or that they are 'out of date'.) . In message , Shirley Shone writes

Tailors chalk with the edges sharpened ,come in various colours that would show up and then brush off! I am still using my grandfathers( he died in

1945!)

The felt marker that washes out just needs to get wet to disappear. I have often just sprayed the blue lines with a spray bottle and they disappear. You could use the washable pen, do your quilting, spray lightly with water and the lines should disappear. Then, when the weather is warmer, you could actually wash the quilt to make sure you got rid of all the marker residue. I mean, it will only be a matter of months not years you would have to wait to actually wash the quilt so I doubt if any marker residue would be a problem. Just one thing to remember, you don't want to iron over the marked area. IF there should be any marker residue left, the heat of the iron would set it. Another thing that is available and used a lot by machine embroiderers is the heat sensitive paper. I think Solvy makes it but I'm not sure. Anyway, you can mark on it, stick it to the quilt, do your quilting and then iron over the paper. The heat from the iron just sort of makes the paper disappear! I should think it would be available in the UK since machine embroidery is quite popular that side of the pond. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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I've run into the same thing and tried about everything. I like Quilt Pounce if I"m working with a stencil on dark colors. If purple will show up, I like the disappearing markers best, and just work a section at a time. The only drawback is, if it is raining, you have to work fast! It seems to disappear quickly when the humidity is high. I have never had a problem yet with the marks not disappearing. There's one that has two tips; a blue washable on one end and purple disappearing on the other. I like that one. Some of the others seemed too fine and my eyesight isn't all that good.

Sherry

I'll second the Prismacolor pencil suggestion, but I prefer the peach-colored ones -- they show up on every color I've tried so far!

In message , Sandy Foster writes

Another thing that does not seem to be available in UK I found some on ebay but then again they are in Germany.

Howdy!

Oy! Those teachers who don't try a product but deliver their verdict without any experience. Of course, just teaching a quilting technique does not make one an expert on all factors of the process, no matter what

*some* people think. I've been using the blue wash-out marking pens for over 35 yrs. Never, NEVER has one come back, not w/ shadows or brown markings or in any variety of hues. Read & follow the instructions on the pkg: remove marks FIRST w/ water, before laundering. Simple. Effective. True. ;->

Pardon me while I go check... as I thought, the Jacobean embroidery quilt top I made in the early 1970s has held up quite well, no returning pen marks on the cream background.

In this case Shirley has received good advice for several brush-off markers, as she doesn't intend to do the wash-out process. Go, Shirley!

Ragm> try Prismacolor Verithin in silver or white - that is what most of the

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You don't have to mark before basting. I almost always mark as I go. If you do that, you can use your disappearing pen.

I have used the blue wash-out marker when handquilting; I marked each block just before quilting it, and when I was done for that "session", I used a spray bottle of water and spritzed it until the marks were gone. I did rinse it all in plain water before I washed it.

Julia > Well I have got the top done and all the things to make a sandwich.

When I was working on my last quilt, I kept a misting water bottle next to me. When I finished one area I simply misted it until the blue marking disappeared. Then I went on to the next area. This method worked well for me. No markings have reappeared.

Thanks you for all the advice that you have sent. It appears that a lot of things that you take for granted are not available in the UK. I have got to go to the haberdashery shop tomorrow and will see what they have.

I need some braid to go round the top of the box that I have just lined in brocade. I started researching our family tree some years ago and there are documents in a cardboard box. My eldest GD has taken an interest in the family history. So I begged DH to make a proper box. So he has made a solid oak box which I have lined to put all the things I have collected for our family tree. I have got back to 1605 on one branch of the family. When GD has finished doing her Masters Degree we shall work on it together. Plus she wants me to teach her how to sew. I just pray that I live long enough to fulfil all my tasks.

Shirley