I use a wide range of tools. Marking darts or other things on both pieces of the same pattern piece I use tracing wheel (or plastic 'knife) and paper. If I can't risk a mark of any kind I use tailor tacks. I use erasable pens (air or water) for tracing seam lines onto fabrics - these are very temporary, so you can't leave them sit for long. I LOVE these chalk wheels http://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/chalk-pencils.html for all kinds of stuff - they come in a bunch of colors.
The other thing I discovered (and actually got into the Threads tips and tools section) is that Crayon erasable color pencils are hard, don't break easily, can be sharpened to a point, and they wash out! Hope that helps! Sg On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Land of Oz <lando...@netins.net> wrote: > I've just about had it with the standard pencil type marking instruments > at JoAnn's. If you try to sharpen them enough to make a detailed line, the > chalk breaks off. If you try to leave the end wide and blunt, you can't > make anything but the most basic dots. > > What do you pros out there use? I have a wheel and marking paper, but > that's really hard on the pattern tissues and I like to re-use them if > possible. > > What's your favorite and where do you get it? > > thanks > Denise > Iowa > > ______________________________**_________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> > -- -Sg- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
