tracing wheel..used one for years..marking dresses/blouses...darts in skirts/pants.

When we used tracing paper to mark darts on patterns, this is the little wheel you used. You put the pattern on the material and ran this over the lines transfering the lines to the material. haven't seen one in years.......

Ladies, you have brought back some memories!

I was 16 when I got married. Not as smart as I thought I was.
For many years my dining table had little dotted lines in the wood. I didn't think of putting a cushion on the table before marking the lines on patterns.
I hated the marking...and I just figured out why. I would put the carbon paper in the middle of the 'sandwich'--layer 1--fabric, layer 2--carbon paper, layer 3--(on top) tissue pattern. As I was reading your comments I realized I should have had the carbon paper on the bottom,facing up!!!
OMG! I have embarrassed myself.

Joya

A ravioli cutter is bigger and washable. A tracing wheel is made out of sight weight metal that is not washable.

Think RUST!!

I'm older and smarter now, but I never did figure out how to get those little dimpled lines out of my dining table.

NLOL....NOT laughing out loud.

I have two of those!!

I love it!

Ditto. There is colored "tracing paper" which is placed between the patten and fabric.

Might be great in the kitchen for decorating cookies or something ....hee, hee....

;)

I agree it looks like a can opener or maybe a pizza slicer, maybe it is advised you eat pizza whilst quilting, could be messy.

Regards

Carol
Melbourne
Australia

Oh my that is an old tracing wheel. you need to frame it and hang it in your sewing room. I bet if it could talk it would tell you about all the clothes its marked to be sewn.
I used to use one a good 55 years ago. that old!!!

Geez I must be old...back in the olden days this is what we used to mark/trace our dots and darts, that and with the colored waxed paper.