QuiltingCrazie

I'm a folder too. I fold the pattern piece to the small size...little girl clothes are so fun to make!! Have fun..I love making clothes for my girls I still do!

lalaland

I buy the Swedish tracing paper and trace the sizes I know I'll use onto it. it's kind of expensive but it's really strong. Marker does bleed through it though so if you use it, you need to lay down paper underneath it to catch the bleed. Or you could use those no bleed through pens.

sewbeadit

I cut mine where I want to cut and stick the pieces that are left of the other sizes in the pattern envelope. Works for me. If I have a pattern like a favorite blouse I think I will use over and over, I use that interfacing type pattern stuff.

dd

I've been sewing a long time and I sew for other people. I have tried all these methods. I figured the folding and tracing just wasn't worth the $1 I would spend on a new pattern. Besides styles change and you might not want another blouse made off that same pattern. Kids clothes, that's different.

QuiltnNan

i have used all of the methods explained before me. it just depends what i have on hand. i have even used the tissue paper used for wrapping gifts. like gale, i mark the pieces with the pattern number, piece letter, size, and how many to cut.... just as on the original pattern.

Stitchnripper

I trace the smaller sizes onto tissue paper, then cut out with scissors I just use for paper. Sometimes I use my rotary cutter to cut out the fabric with the tissue paper pattern on top.

pocoellie

I buy a roll of the table paper from a doctor's office and trace my pattern pieces on it, in whatever size I'm looking for. The paper is a whole lot sturdier than the tissue pattern paper. This way, if you change sizes, you don't have to buy another pattern, which in the meanwhile, they've probably discontinued it. LOL

nyelphaba

I never cut up a master pattern. I trace on to other paper.

Peckish

I trace onto freezer paper because I like to iron the freezer paper onto the fabric before cutting, instead of using pins. I'm too lazy to pin! :lol:

gale

I've bought multiple patterns, but I admit I became quite a pattern snob and HATE with a passion the tissue paper patterns. HATE them.