Teen

I sometimes use all the above mentioned techniques but the easiest for me when wuilting a continuous motif was using quilting paper. It's super thin and tears away easily. You trace pattern on paper and pin paper to the area of quilt...then sew over paper. You can buy this paper by the roll. It's called Golden Threads quilting paper and can be purchased mostly anywhere but I found it on Amazon.. Check out the youtubes on this technique....

Edit to add: welcome to the board!!