Description
What does it do?- Clover Chacopy Tracing Paper is a single sided, chalk based tracing paper that enables you to easily and accurately transfer any paper based design or mark to your fabric.
Colours – Chacopy Tracing Paper is available as a set of five colours on individual 25 x 30cm sheets. All you have to do is select the colour that contrasts enough to show prominently on your fabric. Colours included are: blue, green, red, white and yellow. One of those should meet any requirements you might come across. For complex patterns you can even use two or more colours.
Application – Chacopy Tracing Paper is easy to use. If you are transferring a design to your fabric you just need to lay the tracing paper face down on the right side of your fabric and place the design you've selected on the back of that.
Using a stylus or a tracing wheel, simply trace over the design, transferring the chalk to your fabric. You may want to tape the design to the Chacopy Paper to keep it from moving while tracing. Keep in mind that if you’re going to hoop the fabric you’ll need to leave enough space around your design to accommodate that hoop.
If you’re transferring the marks of a pattern to a cut pattern piece you simply lay the Chacopy Paper face up on a smooth surface. Then lay the cut pattern piece on top of it. Now the chalk surface of the paper is next to the wrong side of the fabric. Again, using a stylus or tracing wheel, simply trace over the pattern marks. They will be transferred to the wrong side of the fabric where you want them. Once our designs or marks are no longer needed you can simply wash them away. They don’t smear and they always wash out.
One caution though. As with any chalk based marker, ironing may make the marks difficult to remove. It’s always a good idea to test any marking on a scrap of your fabric before using.