Over the years I have accumulated a lot of fabric markers. I keep them in this plastic container which helps to keep them from drying out. I've used them in a variety of ways like adding shadows in landscape quilts. In this new quilt, "Jewels in Batiks", they played the purpose of shading down a fabric. This one square of fabric had a very bright orange in it in an area that was supposed to be dark. When I looked at the quilt, all I saw was this one block over-shining the "jewels." I got out the brown markers and went over this square. If you look at the post with the finished quilt, you'll see it's really toned down, allowing the "jewels" to shine!Fabric markers are also great to color bright stitches that are showing up in your seams, but you have to use a very pointed end to just touch the thread.
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