Clover Fabric Folding Pen (4053) Clear, 124

You need this pen. I need this pen. I have four of these pens, stashed at different locations in my craft room so I don't have to walk anywhere when I'm piecing, folding, pressing. Makes seams and final trimming so much more accurate. Run - don't walk - to buy at least one of these pens. I should mention I do not work for the Clover company. I don't work at all - I'm retired. And, when you run out of the special folding juice they include with the pen, it works just fine with plain tap water. Did I mention I have four of these? Get yours today!

I'd give this little pen 100 stars if I could! It's amazing. It's the best sewing/quilting tool I have ever used. Just add a few drops of the solution to water in the pen as viola, instant pressing miracle. I sew quilts regularly with a group and was constantly having to walk over to an ironing station and wait for the iron. At our last sew-in, I used this pen on every seam I sewed and simply finger-pressed the seam down. I didn't have to leave my chair and it worked almost like an iron! I didn't actually iron my quilt blocks until I sewed them all together at the end of the day. My quilting friends were amazed at the flatness of my blocks. This stuff is amazing!!

If you work with linen or any natural fabric with a mind of its own, you probably need this pen. I make most of the small linens and large altar linens at my parish - I figured out that I could get square squares by starching the heck out of the yardage - it's nearly like cardstock. So, I tamed the accurate cutting problem, but there was still the problem of folding double hems in straight lines and keeping the folds sharp long enough to sew the corner miters and turn them. Then, this wonderful bit of sewing sorcery came into my life. I use a ruler to draw straight lines and just lifting the edge of the fabric, it almost folds itself. This is not anything like how linen normally behaves - this is magic. I unfold the corners to mark them and sew them, cut the excess away and turn them and all the folds are still sharp enough that I can sew the hem down without even using pins. What a timesaver! I made two 2'×9' altar linens this morning - they have straight, even hems and square corners! I also found it useful in preparing appliqué pieces - trace around your plastic template and ease the sides up over it and finger press in place - beautiful edges as with starch-prepared appliqué, but not as hard to sew through by hand. No burned fingers, either. It seemed a little expensive, even for a tool fanatic - but I can't even guess how many hours this pen has saved me, over the years. Plus my work looks so much nicer - this is a true gift to yourself if you are a perfectionist about your work. I only wish that you could buy replacement nibs, because the liquid reacted with the metal ruler I used once and turned the nib gray. I keep that one for my colored fabrics and use the new one for white.

It works wonderful and it works as described and it’s cost-effective and it does make a good sharp fold

It’s great if needed will buy again

Makes sewing easier by being able to stay at the machine.

If you sew anything that needs to have the seams turned or flat, you have GOT to have this. I make reversible tote bags for people in need. There is a LOT of turning and seams that need to be flat. This has cut about 15 minutes off the making of each bag. It does small nasty, so be in a good size room or open a window. The smell is worth putting up with to save a lot of time and have beautiful flat seams.

I think that this product has great potential, but needs a little work. Now granted, I tried it quick before I decided to order more fluid, but it would be great if this was a leak proof pen. Give a little squeeze and allot comes out all over the place, but it worked to make the measurement line that I needed and no burned fingers - BONUS!!. I will keep it and hope that the leakage issue improves due to user error. The liquid is quite expensive as well, for a very small amount.

Works really well to relax seams,use a small amount of product and gets topped up with water

I originally purchased this pen to use when preparing applique pieces for stitching, and it works wonderfully well. I had watched the Karen Kay Buckley method of preparing leaves for applique, and she uses fabric sizing and a paintbrush. That looked pretty messy, so I decided to try adapting the technique by using the Clover Fabric Folding Pen instead. The shape of the point on the Fabric Folding Pen lends itself very well to tracing a line around the leaf template cut from heat-resistant plastic, so when you press the shape you end up getting a nice, crisp fold that will hold. Although the bottle of magic liquid looks pretty small, you literally only use a few drops in the pen before topping it up with water to use it, so that little bottle lasts for ages. And you can buy refills if you need to. I keep the pen stored vertically with the point well capped and facing up, so it's ready to go whenever I am. And of course, you could always just use the pen for what it was originally designed for to get rid of those stubborn, annoying lines in your fabric that just won't seem to budge just by ironing. Or for smoothing out any pressing mistakes..... I highly recommend it as a valuable little tool to add to your stash of patchwork and sewing tools.

A good product, it does what it says on the packet and very prompt delivery

Good quality and value for the money.

Excellent product makes folding appliqué shapes a breeze