I learned to piece and quilt in the late '70s. I took an adult education class at our local high school that was taught by a very strict woman who believed in doing things the "right" way. She taught us to take a piece of freezer paper and draw the design in heavy black marker. Then we took the freezer paper and placed it under the quilt top and traced lightly with a no. 2 pencil. It worked very well and I still do it this way.
All our fabrics had to be prewashed and dried. And when the quilt was completed it went back into the washer again. I must say all the pencil marks came out.
I have just come back to quilting after all these years and I realize that things just are not done this way anymore.
The woman who owns a local quilt shop often raises her eyebrows at me
