Essential Quilting Tools: Pigma Pens

A fabulous item to add to your sewing toolbox is a set of markers and they're called Pigma pens, PIGMA, Pigma pens. And they come in, as you can see in a wide variety of colors and they are a permanent marker and these pens are available at most craft stores or quilting stores, and of course, online. And what I like best is, they have a wide variety of uses. One of the main things that I find that they're great for is for signing a friendship quilt or doing a quilt label on the back. My handwriting isn't very good, but as you can see, it's a nice thin line and it is permanent and it will stay there forever through many washings, so that's a nice thing for it. I love it for fixing mistakes, this is my best friend in my sewing room is my Pigma pen, especially the black one. So when you're quilting, a lot of times it's very easy to slip into the adjacent block or into the border. And all of a sudden you have those little threads showing on that border fabric that you didn't want, and it's only over by just a stitcher too, but it's such a pain to have to pick it out and then try and do a nice stop start to catch it again and hope that nothing's going to pull out. Well by taking the Pigma pen you can see this white stitching here. I can just come along and color over it go over it several times. And guess what? Unless you're looking extremely closely you are not going to see those awful rant stitches anymore. If you have an open seam, a lot of times I have quilters who love to use up their threads and they have the wrong color thread and you'll see the white coming through like that. A lot of times I can just come through here very gently with my Pigma pen and cover up what's in that seam line so that it isn't as glaring, especially when they use a white thread next to black like that. I think you can see it makes quite a difference there. And that is a very nice time-saver and it just gives your work a little bit more professional look, I also like to use these when I'm embroidering because a lot of times there's gaps in the thread in an embroidery and you just get a color that's fairly close to that color in very lightly. And you will never know that you had some missing stitches in there. So I highly urge you to get yourself a nice set of Pigma pens and see how many things you can do with them.