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Go to Karen Kay Buckley's website and go to the Store, then the More Recommended Notions. It is not clear, but when you lay it over your pattern, you can see through it to trace your lines and to place your pieces. Once the pattern is traced onto the Pattern ease, baste it to the background fabric on one side so that you can lift it up and place your pattern pieces.

I tried the vinyl method, but even using the thinnest that JoAnn's had, it was awkward and cumbersome. Every time you wanted to put on another piece, you had to line everything up again. With the Pattern Ease, once I had it basted on to my background fabric, I just rolled it to the side and pinned it so it wouldn't get in my way while I was stitching. Then, when I needed to place another piece, I spread the background fabric out flat, unpinned and unrolled the pattern ease and placed my piece where I wanted it.