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Your cart is empty.Use marking pens, pencils and chalks for sewing, quilting and crafting. Tailor's Set- Strong ceramic lead is made from water soluble dyes and is specially formulated for fabric. Lead colors are suitable for dark and light fabrics. Include a soft finger grip for comfort.
Susan Willey
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
Love these chalk pens! They work great for marking stencils on my quilts. They are think enough to fit into the stencils and the white shows up very well on the dark areas of my quilts.
B. Johnson
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
Colorful tools to expand your creativity and efficiencies.
Darlene
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
I really like this marker, but you do have to use a bit of pressure to mark the fabric. Changing the chalk is easy.
scrappinmamakat
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2024
If you ever tried to use a white pencil or pen for marking the little dots or darts etc. on fabric you know they don’t usually work vey well. Either they are very difficult to mark, don’t show at all or they disappear quickly. The white in here shows well, marks easily and doesn’t disappear. I haven’t tried the other colors since it’s easy to find a black or blue pen that works, but I can see using this one regularly.
Joyce Mccandless
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
Love the ease of loading new lead and are easy to use. Wish they came with more lead, especially white
Carolyn Langford
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2023
Clear lines that can be removed easily.
SherriT
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2021
I really like this pencil and the fine lines it makes, but it has been impossible to find refills for it, which basically makes it disposable. I ended up buying a second one to get the refills and so that I could leave a different color lead in each one (for quick marking when I sew with different fabrics), with hopes that refills would become available by the time mine ran out. So I'd recommend doing a quick search to see if the refills are available before purchasing this set. You also need to be careful not to advance too much of the lead out at once, as it will snap off because it is so fine.
Janice Doyle
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2020
Works great. Took a bit to figure out changing the leads
lucie bélanger
Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2020
Ce crayon est géniale mais un peu cher.
DD
Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2020
I love this marking pen. It makes marking the fabric so easy, even when tracing a template. I wish I could order replacement leads for it on Amazon's site. I don't have a local sewing/quilting store to purchase from.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2020
Merci!
cloudonshore
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019
The price may seem a little high if you compare it to a traditional chalk pencil but it is so worth it! I transfer or draw my pattern pieces on to a heavy card or poster board and then trace them on to my fabric, this mechanical chalk pencil zips around the edges so quickly and precisely that it saves me time when I'm sewing and gives me such crisp lines. I have a chalk cartridge set and it feels so thick and clunky now compared to this lol. If you are a perfectionist this is the pencil for you, it takes some getting used to on different fabrics but it's performed great on everything I've tested it on from muslin to spandex. It comes out easily too, just pay attention to what color you're using as is the case with all chalk pencils. Most of the time it just rubs right out but I've found the red color sometimes needs to be washed out, so if you're using it on a material you don't intend on washing then just keep that in mind.
andi
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015
I'm currently making 40 small zipper pouches only 4"x4" with a design embroidered on the front. The fabric is a deep purple and marking the design placement is critical for lining it up on the stabilizer which has a temporary adhesive sprayed on it. Both my wax tailor's chalk and clay chalk made lines too thick even after sharpening them. The white fabric marking pen I tried was a flop and I have never had a wooden tailor's pencil that could be sharpened and end up with a tip that didn't break off right away.This fine line automatic pencil was my last resort and it is working perfectly. The embroidery lines up with little or no needle position adjustment and, after it is completed, I use the pencil with the template I made from posterboard to mark the outline for trimming the piece to the exact size, the zipper placement and the two fold lines all at one time. It is saving me hours of working with various rulers and making clip markings which I previously did.The chalk does seem to use up quickly but that is the nature of chalk. The chalk came off easily when I used a Q-Tip dipped in water. One review said there was an issue using the pencil on light weight fabric. I am using Kona Cotton which has a tighter weave to it, but I think it will work just fine with any good quilter' s cotton. I would pretest for use on synthetics or cotton-poly fabrics.Amazon doesn't seem to have a seller for the refills Dritz makes, but Joann fabrics says they carry it and I also can get it from Wawak where I get some of my other tailoring and dressmaking supplies (they also give a discount on quantity purchases of some items).I am so pleased with this pencil that I am considering buying one for each color of chalk so I don't have to spend time changing it in the same pencil.One additional note: When the chalk piece doesn't advance anymore don't pull it out and toss it away. Just insert a new piece in the barrel from the top and keep advancing it until it meets the old piece. It may take a few tries to get the old piece stable at the end, but it will be usable until the new piece closes the gap inside the barrel. My dressmaking instructor years ago was a stickler for not wasting and 50 years later I still have the habit of keeping a fabric scrap stash, vintage (by now) patterns and pre-threaded hand sewing needles in umpteen colors of thread I think I should keep just in case something needs a button sewn on or a seam resewn because the thread "is still good".
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