Thank you for the advice, Florence. I've given up on this marker because I couldn't see what I had marked. Sounds like patience is needed here! Marge

Sherrie this might be your problem, when you first mark it you think it hasn't worked, or your eyes aren't working, or your light isn't right, IF it's not actually dried out, you just have to trust that it'll show up where you just marked, and in a minute or 2, voila! your lines will show! The only problem I find that I haven't solved yet is that I'm always wondering if my fabric has moved or stretched a bit, and I can't tell if I'm about to complete a line in the correct spot or not! Best bet is to draw quickly & confidently! Florence

Thanx Betty Ann...I'll give that a try.

Try storing the pen with the point down for a while. Might help. Betty Ann

It's liquid-like ink or something. I only used it to see how it worked. I hate to just toss it out.

Mine has loose chalk in a cartridge that screws to the tapered point of the pen. Is yours like a pencil that you sharpen? I never had much luck with them. Sandy

I have the clover marking pen and it seems to have dried out. Any way to restore it?

I LOVE the clover marking pen and have 3 scattered througout the sewing room.

Cheryl

I just bought a Clover Pen Style Chaco Liner. It has a tapered tip that lets you mark right next to a ruler. I haven't used it to mark a quilt top yet but I can see it would work great for marking grids. I'm not sure how it would work marking curved line like feathers using a lightbox. I need to play with it some more.

I'm using the white Clover pen to draw my BOM design on the back of my block for back-basting (chocolate brown background fabric) and it's working great. Stays even w/ lots of handling...
Florence

I just finished a dark quilt which I marked with a tool called White Marking Pen <Fine> by Clover. It looks like a ball point pen. When you first mark it is hard to see, but as it dries, it becomes white. The marks do not come off like they do with chalk. These lines go away when they are ironed. I was told that the lines will also go away if left in a hot car here in Florida. I was quilte pleased with the results using this product. Betty Ann In Rainy Florida

eileenkny wrote:
Eileen, the chalk was my 1st choice but unfortunately I can't turn off the "NO TOP THREAD" sensor and so my machine kept stopping after just a few stitches. I've got my eyes on granny's old one that is sitting out at dad's place not being used. Now, I LUV my comperterized machine, but some projects just beg for the good ole fashioned machine.

If you are machine quilting another option is to take butcher or freezer paper, draw the design, score it (do the quilting design on the machine with an empty needle) place it on the quilt where you want it and stitch through. The freezer paper then needs to then be pulled off and in some spots picked out however as far as I'm concerned this works wonders.

If the design is in several places over the surface of the quilt you can clip together up to 8 sheets of freezer paper of the size needed and draw the design once on the top sheet then as you stitch the design will be stitched to the under sheets.

I think there's a quilt on my profile where I used this technique. The pattern is "Baby Crackers" from Alex's book, if you look at the quilting I used this technique with the flowers.

Learned this in Lancaster last year from Carol Blevins (I think) works like a charm.

Happy Quilting!
Teri

You can also get a Pounce pad with some chalk. If your design is on paper, punch holes in it by stitching it on your machine with no thread-it makes it a stencil. Then lay it over the area and wipe across it with the pad, not pouncing, just wipe.
Hope this helps,
eileenkny