YOU WILL NEED
■ Rulers – Specialist curves are ideal (see page 78)
■ Pattern paper – A translucent paper such as tracing paper, thin pattern paper or baking paper works well. Beware that newspaper ink can transfer to your fabric!
■ Tracing wheel – A specialist wheel with spikes for tracing patterns. This leaves little indentations on the paper that you can then join.
■ Pattern weights – These are useful to stop your paper moving while you are tracing. If you don’t have special weights, use tins!
■ Mechanical pencils – Use a mechanical pencil to trace your patterns. The fine lead will create a much sharper line than a regular pencil – if each line is a few mm wide then you can throw the whole pattern off by
