Re: Tracing: what is freezer paper?

Somebody recently mentioned using vapour barrier clear plastic available at home depot. I tired it and it is awesome.

1 Easy to trace and write on later with a fine felt tipped pen. 2 Easy to cut clear plastic with regular scissors saving your fabric scissors only for fabric. 3 Easy to pin fabric or pattern to plastic for tracing or cutting out as the case may be. 4 Excellent for multi-sized patterns as you only trace the one you need. No need to ever cut a pattern again. Just trace and go.

5 You can write in all the empty spaces all the abbreviated instructions and adjustments. Easy to erase whether dry or wet felt pen, just rub with your finger. Yet once dry, the markings remain. I am not sure whether over time when patterns are stored if the ink will blot or stick if not protected but so far it is great.

4 My thoughts on storage are to hand them with a heavy duty paper clip in a closet or clothes bag along with copy of pattern and/or instructions.

By the same logic, try cutting open plastic supermarket bags and using them in the same way: they come free (unless of course you have an enviro-friendly supermarket) and they work like a charm! You hardly even need to pin them in place, since by smoothing over with your hand you allow air pressure to hold the plastic down. I cut my s'market bags open and then sit on them for five minutes

- this flattens them out perfectly (I am a woman of magnificent proportions!) and prepares them for use. If a single bag isn't wide or long enough, just tape a couple together.

HTH,