Chalk Earns Its Keep

A small work for Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit on the design wall. I wanted to place a free floating window, and to get the location, so I chalked both the shape and then the placement on the background. Next, I cut out the shape from the background and laid it on foreground, cutting an additional 1/2" seam. I think.
 

My Friend Chalk

 I use chalk, now just an fragment, to mark the pieces pinned to my design wall. I'll draw the edge of the cut line, plus important crosshatch marks. This way I can't loose the junction when sections move to the cutting table. The length of this seam is about 7 1/2 feet. And yes, I've reordered chalk.

Chalk It Up

I'm assembling a large work, and placing some areas to be set in. A few years back I was given a box of tailor's chalk. It's become a favorite tool to help locate, join, figure out the settings. You can see the faint white line around the "blocks" I want to piece in. 
 

Birthday Pearls

Once a year I mark the day. It's never the same, sometimes it's the pits, sometimes I wear pearls. This birthday was modest, so the only pearls were the ones we  made in chalk. There's a gap in our ages, but we enjoy the same things. 
 

Chalk is Your Friend

I use few tools, but this marking chalk is the best for indicating my cut lines, and registration for two large pieces. Sometimes it's too cumbersome to move the large sections and while it is on the design wall I can just draw easily. Also great to indicate where to add a pieced line.
 

Screen Trick

Before I paint soy wax on this screen I needed to locate the image. I've used dressmaker's chalk to draw on the screen. I've also used a watercolor pen at times. Soy wax is one of my main resists to use on screens because I love the hand drawn line. Easy to cold water wash the dye, hot water for soy.
 

Sketched Out

While at the quilt festival in Montreal this summer, I was given a box of chalk. I've used it again and again locate a cut or a line I'd like to use. The straight pins are used to baste the layers.