If you trace patterns off the original paper pattern...

[lucysmam]

What sort of paper do you use?

I'm bored of stapling/sewing greaseproof together to get a big enough piece of paper.

Tracing paper, like this

I know what you mean about getting bored: i just got a pdf pattern, and printing the 50 odd pages and then cutting out the parts and sticking them together actually took longer than sewing the actual dress

Thanks Clap, will bung that in my basket for when I'm feeling rich!

I use gift wrap tissue paper :)

I'll pick some of that up in town tomorrow to try, thank you

No problem, I like it because its cheap and a lot wider than greaseproof paper

I use a huge roll of proper pattern paper. I buy it from Amazon. It's definitely worth the extra money as its so easy to use.

It sticks together too! I'm sick of sticking myself with staples when I'm cutting out

Do you have to use a tracing wheel and carbon paper with the proper tracing paper? I am also ready to move on from greaseproof and sticky tape but am not ready to part with my pencil just yet (if I have a specialist tool I will use it once and then lose it forever)

The financial times!

I just trace onto the greaseproof with a pencil/ruler/french curve for curvy bits, don't think you have to use a wheel and carbon paper so long as the paper's weighted down enough not to move about

I am generally too lazy to trace tbh, but when I do I use the same sort of paper as ClapAlong and a serrated wheel, works a treat. I traced a recent pattern because it was on lovely paper and I didn't want to cut it.

Other things I should trace are children's patterns ... but I often just cut.

I just use a pencil. I buy the sort of paper with dots printed on which makes it easier to line things up.

I don't use a wheel (only because i don't have one ). And i like tracing...

I buy burda pattern tracing paper - only £2.65 for a packet of 5 huge sheets. Most haberdasheries, fabric stores or market stalls sell it.

I use Swedish sewable tracing paper. It's like a thin fabric, almost like interlining, so semi-transparent. I just lie it over the pattern and drawn round with a Sharpie. And you can actually sew it if you want to use it to make a muslin, though I've never done so.

That sounds worth a play with Hal, will have a look on amazon later on. It'd save me tracing and then making a toile separately for Elsa for dd1.

It's here lucysmam. It's good stuff! you might be able to get it cheaper, possibly, if you have a hunt around.

Thankyou! I'll have a mooch & see if I can find it cheaper.

I use the Burda paper too. The perfect weight and can also be used for putting between / behind seams etc when machining too.

I use the Burda pattern paper too and if I run out have use greeseproof paper - have tried the Prym plastic sheets, work well but farm more slippery to trace and a sharpy is so much better on it than the pen provided.