Pilot Frixion pens - my newest favourite sewing trick - The Dreamstress

These are Pilot Frixion pens, and they are my newest favourite sewing toy: They have been around overseas for a while, but haven’t been available in NZ for that long, so they are a relatively new toy to me. Pilot designed these as erasable pens: you can write with them, and then use the special eraser end to erase the writing with friction. Only it’s not really friction that makes the writing disappear.  It’s what friction creates, which is heat.  And that makes them perfect for marking fabric for sewing. Let me demonstrate! You start with a plain piece of fabric: Write on it! I use my pens for marking darts, pleats, notches, drawing out embroidery designs, marking dots for cartridge pleating: anywhere you want to be able to make a fine, precise line that is going to completely disappear. For this demonstration, I’m just going to write a slight mis-quote of one of my favourite Katherine Mansfield lines.  The actual quote is “Modern souls oughtn’t to wear them”  with the ‘them’ referring to stays …

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