You only need a few tools and a flat surface to try out our speedy carbon paper tracing method. We promise you won't look back!
If you want to preserve your sewing pattern or have a pattern that is printed on both sides, tracing is an essential step in your sewing project. It can sometimes be quite hard to see which line you should be tracing if using the traditional method of laying the tracing paper over the pattern, but we have an easier way to make it super speedy.
YOU WILL NEED
■ Your sewing pattern
■ Tracing paper
■ Carbon paper (we love this one from Burda as the sheets are big enough so that you shouldn’t have to move them much while you are tracing)
■ Pattern weights
■ Tracing wheel
■ Ruler
■ Paper scissors
STOCKISTS
■ Ergonomic Toothed Tracing Wheel, Prym.com
■ Tracing paper, morplan.com
■ Burda carbon paper, likesewamazing.com
■ Sewcialist pattern weights, likesewamazing.com
TRACING YOUR PATTERN
Step one Lay out your piece of tracing paper on your table. 01
Step two Lay out the carbon paper with the carbon (coloured) side facing towards your tracing paper. 02
Step three Lay out your sewing pattern over the carbon paper with the pattern piece you wish to trace facing up.
Step four Look underneath to make sure the tracing paper and carbon paper is in the correct position under your pattern piece. Step five Place pattern weights on the sewing pattern to keep it everything place while you are working. 03
Step six Use your tracing wheel to trace around your pattern pieces. 04
Step seven Make sure you transfer over all important markings, such as notches, grainlines and lengthen/shorten lines. Step eight Remove pattern weights, sewing pattern and carbon paper and you should have a perfectly traced pattern piece. 05
Step nine Write any rel
