Originally Posted by Lisanne
If I can butt in, you'd use dressmaker's carbon paper to trace an applique design outline on from tracing paper, wouldn't that be it?
You aren't butting in at all! <g> This is exactly how it all works.
I think you are correct about applique/carbon paper ... if you remember, though, the paper comes in a couple of colors ...
I never did figure out how/why the spur/tracing wheel wouldn't tear up the pattern so badly that you couldn't re-use the pattern.