Quilters come in and start using it on fabric and then complain about issues with it.
Pilot frixion ball pen quilting.
And a few bloggers have done their own tests see melissa s post here and angela s post here.
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Pilot frixion erasable gel pens the funny thing is they weren t designed for marking on fabric but quilter s have discovered this pen as being really effective.
Write smoothly with the fine tip frixion ball erase with the frixion eraser and rewrite immediately.
I most often use a chalk marker for marking on darker fabrics such as the these chaco liners for white or cream colored fabrics sometimes a good solid line is what.
The pilot pen people must be perplexed they design a product for paper.
I used a frixion pen first and then the gel roller.
I quilted a sample that was unwashed and unstarched so there was definitely a ghost there but it s very hard to see it.
If you want to use a frixion pen to mark quilting lines for free motion quilting the ghost marks are hard to see underneath the stitching.
There s been some hype about these new pens on the market.
Yes batiks seem to be a problem for the frixion pens.
So as you might have seen last wednesday i used a red frixion pen to mark on my chevron baby quilt top this generated quite the discussion in the comments of my wip wednesday post.
Some people reported having problems with the pens.
I tested this out too.
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Simply rub out your mistakes with the eraser stud and watch the ink disappear as if by magic.
But you ll notice that neither of the tests mentioned.