I haven't done any of this lately, but in the past found printing or tracing onto paper tends to set you up for ink or whatever you are using to be stitched into the fabric and leave behind a residue you then need to remove. You can take several layers of paper- even white tissue paper and with an unthreaded needle in your sewing machine(make a copy of the design and place on top) of your layers now stitch on the lines. Those pieces will stay together and you can use them one at a time. Just stitch on those hole lines - no fear of transferred ink. Smaller stitches than normal stitching say 15 or so - easy removal when you're done. Hope I'm making sense.