Product Review and Give-Away: Saral Wax-Free Transfer Paper
Aging myself here, but do you remember back in highschool taking home economics class and one of the things we just had to have in our supply list was coloured waxed paper and a tracing wheel? I hated that stuff with a passion. It rubbed off so easily and just made a heck of a mess. It wasn’t too long ago that I found that original pack from highschool in a file folder. I unearthed it and blue and yellow crap everywhere. What a messy discovery that was. No, I have no idea why I had kept it all these years.
Let’s fast forward to, ya know, the current century, and take a look at Saral’s Wax-Free Transfer Paper. The folks at Saral were kind enough to send me a sampler package to play with.
In the sampler package comes 5 sheets of transfer paper, one of each colour: white, red, yellow, blue and black (graphite):
If life hadn’t gone a little crazy earlier this year, I’d actually have my bed quilt ready for quilting and could show you how the transfer paper works on an actual project. Instead, I grabbed a couple of scrap blocks to test with.
The transfer paper is pretty thin, not quite as thin as tracing paper, but thinner than regular printer paper and slightly delicate. I used the edge of a regular mechanical pencil to draw my lines. A ball point pen or an unpointed tool like a stylus would have been better. I had to press lightly with my pencil so as not to tear the paper.
I drew four lines on my dark fabric: white, red and two yellow lines. I wanted to test the smudge-ability and if the line erased too quickly just with handling. You’ll see the top of the red line and the first yellow line where I tried to rub it off, quite vigorously with my hands. While they are a lighter, they can still be seen quite easily. Very handy when machine quilting, as I hate when chalk products or disappearing ink vanishes before I can finish the project.
I did the same rub off test with the blue transfer paper on a scrap of white fabric, sorry the picture is a bit blurry:
The next test was to see how easy does it come off the fabric when I’m all done with it. Before I did this test, I heat-set with a hot iron and steam, as if my test fabrics were the background of appliqué blocks. I then used a moistened cloth and lightly pressed it to the lines. The blue fabric came out very quickly and the white just needed an extra rub to get the line to disappear.
I was impressed, especially that I could heat-set it and it washed out just perfectly. I’m really big into appliqué these days and this will be fantastic for drawing my placement lines on my background fabric. I also want to try back-basting appliqué and this will be really useful for that too. For me, it’s all about being able to wash away my lines when I’m done with them. Of course, I’ll be sure to test my actual project fabric, just in case.
I could also use it to draw my quilting lines and have the confidence that the lines are not going to vanish before I finish the quilt. Saral has a really useful web site, so you can read more usage ideas over there. You can buy economy rolls of the product too.
This is one product that has definitely improved since my high school years.
Now for the give-away! Saral has generously donated 10 sampler packages for my blog readers. Each package contains one 8 1/2″x11″ sheet of each colour as shown above. To enter the give-away, leave a comment below telling me creatively how you would use this product. Winners will be chosen next Wednesday.
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Looks like good !
Sounds (and looks) very interesting! Would be great for marking hand embroidery and cross stitch as well. (my mom does a lot of that) I would likely use it more for applique and quilting if it worked well for me!
I really like this idea as I’ve been trying to decide how to mark the quilts I’ll be quilting on my HQ. Had a client that was struggling on how to mark her quilt as the chalk was coming off. If I had this product I could of whipped it out and “really” impressed her1
I would use this for marking both quilting designs and hand embroidery. Thanks
I would love to try this product to mark my quilt tops for quilting designs..could prove handy for trying out new designs
This is perfect for drawing my custom quilt designs … wow even on dark fabric and it won’t rub off! So I can use it on the entire top not just one portion at a time!
I would love these for my marking for hand embroidery and hand quilting! thanks
I would love to try this on some hand embroidery….looks really neat.
I think this would be great to help me since I am new to quilting with finishing my quilt. Helping me place the design I want to use to quilt my quilt.
I would definitely use it to help with applique! I’m still learning so this would really help. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would use it to make free motion machine lines
I remember using the old stuff in home-ec too! Great to hear that this works, I would love to use it to trace quilting lines on my background.
It would be great to transfer stitchery-motives to the light fabrics
What a walk down memory lane. I hated that paper too, but then I remember carbon paper to type a carbon copy. I wouldn’t want to go back to those days knowing the new technology. The Saral Transfer Paper looks like a good thing.
I, too, remember the old tracing paper and the little wheel-gizmo you used with it. I, too, still have mine from the 80′s! This new product sounds like it might be just what I’ve been looking for to solve the problem I have marking quilting designs on darker fabrics. I almost ruined my last quilt with white markings on dark brown fabric that I almost did not get off!
If you send me a package of Saral Transfer Paper
I will use it when I set out on my next caper
Quilting up some lines on a double bed size
It should provide some guidance, I tell you no lies….
Looks like just what I need to transfer stitchery designs onto dark fabrics. I also need it for my 2-fabric applique projects. Thanks.
I could do hand embroidery and also applique with! Thanks for the info!!
I would love this product! I would use it for quilting and applique’.
Looks like good stuff. I’ve wanting to try it.
i actually used this many years ago to transfer patterns on tin to paint. so easy to use and lines not covered with paint came off easily with turp to get ready to varnish.
So often when I design a landscape or art quilt with many different elements, my finished product does not quite match the original cartoon. I think mapping out placement with Saral Transfer Paper would help me stay true to the spacing of the original.
This product looks like it would come in handy for so many projects! I would LOVE to try it!! :)
I would love to use this for transfering quilting designs and to share this with my students. I just starting teaching beginning machine quilting and am always looking for new products.
I would use this to trace out my stitcheries. I’d even be able to stitch on dark fabrics, something I haven’t done before! Thanks for telling us about this product.
I would use this product (Saral) for marking on darker fabrics. It is harder to find a marker for this purpose.
I don’t get it. You draw on one side of the paper and it transfers to the fabric? Wow, how have I never heard of this? I have to get some to play with. I don’t believe it’s that easy!
this would be good to copy the intricate designs we wnt to use at
christmas time
Looks wonderful.
“Trapunto, Trapunto, let the designing begin”!!!
I would use it to transfer embroidery patterns. I’d love to just be able to draw over the pattern and poof! it’s done! and no worry about lines being permanent.
I’d use it to transfer quilt patterns to my quilt tops.
I’d use it to transfer quilt patterns to my quilt tops. Easy Peasy
I have used it before and it was great for marking the background of my applique.
used to use a product like this when I was a tailor apprentice. Nice to know it’s still around. See, it’s gotta be good, it’s still here.
I have used this paper & it is great! Mostly for transferring sashiko designs onto fabric. I never thought to use for quilting designs, but that would work too. Thanks for the tip!
it would ge good to transfer designs – quilting . Now to see if I can find it locally
I’ve been using this stuff for years! It’s wax-free and like carbon paper without the carbon. It’s great for transferring any kind of design – applique or quilting. I have used it to trace the outline of an odd-shaped paper pattern onto fabric – saves having to actually cut the paper pattern. Works great – I love it! Send me some – my supply is running low!
oh my goodness, yes, i remember the cheap-o stuff from home ec also. hahaha, way back when. This product looks easy to use, and much better than what we used to use. I would love to try this product. Thanks
Sure, a new tracing product would be great! I have tried everything from the waxy stuff with the tracing wheel to about all things on the market. Don’t care for anything I’ve seen. I think this sounds as if it has promise. Thank you.
Thanks for the intro to this product. It would be great to transfer stitchery patterns. Thanks
The Saral paper sounds like a much needed product. I’d use it for FMQ and placing applique pieces. I’m work on Erin Russek’s BOM from last year and this might make it even easier to place. Collecting the patterns from “my tweets” but haven’t started them yet. What applique are you working on and are you going to share some pictures?
The Saral paper sounds almost to good to be true. I do alot of needle work and I hate to use a pencil on my fabric. Transfering designs would be so easy with this..
Please send me some..
For when I do my art quilts, marking the placement of the different features.
I would like to try it out on a crazy quilt.
I’ve started learning stitchery and would use this to transfer embroidery designs to background fabric. As these are for a quilt, then could use the transfer paper to also mark for applique as would be cool to learn to use applique and stitchery and patchwork together in a quilt. It would be fun to use.
W ehave a group out the back of my house and have a get together for painting and quilting patchwork ect and use saral for both, we have a lot of trouble getting it here would love to win it
quilt hugs sue
Wow, I have some of the old transfer paper hidden away too! This is a product that I need to try. I am tired of pencil rubbing off, or disappearing before I finish my project!
OOOH!!! My hand stitchery and my hand piecing…..sure looks like handy stuff!
Wow! How cool. I never thought of using that for quilts. I bought some of this product about 4 yrs ago when hubby and I redid my entire sewing room but I didn’t use it for fabric. I had different sewing sayings that I wanted to hand paint onto the trim at the top of the wall. I printed the little sayings and then laid the transfer paper over the wood and then after cutting the sayings into piece by words, I taped those over top of the transfer paper. Once there I traced each letter outlining each one. Then when done I removed it all and hand painted each of the words and hubby then attached the trim to the wall afterward. It worked wonderfully. This was before the different printers for lettering etc. became such huge hits so that was not an option.
I would definitely use it to draw quilt designs for my quilting. I’m still working on free motion quilting, but following a design makes it so much easier. And I would use it easy embroidery transfer. I’d like to try it.
Looks interesting. Would like to try it.
This would be helpfull for applique would love to try it
I would love to try this product. It’s uses seems endless.
Looks very interesting. I can use it with free motion quilting to give a few great marks. I can use it free embroidery to sign the pattern. I can use it to scetch for a art quilt.
Can we buy it in Europe ? greetings from liesbeth
I love this paper and have used it for the last 20 years unfortunately now I am having difficulty buying it here in OZ. Thank goodness its reusable. I can honestly recommend it and have family members trying to find it for me. I will now check out there web site. Thanks heaps for informing me where to find it.
I would use it for applique. It would really help with accurate placement.
I would use this paper to work on my machine quilting. I am new to this and need all the help I can get! lol
Would love to try this out! I’m a beginner quilter so this would come in handy. I too think it would be great for hand embroidery. Thanks!
I am a hand quilter, and I am always looking for a product that makes a thin line and comes off easily. This sounds great. I have several projects waiting to be quilted. I would love to try this and then blog about it if I like it. Please enter me in the drawing. I promise I’ll put it to good use. PS: I have an applique project coming up, too. Maybe I could use it for that, too.
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I’m getting ready to start a big red work project. This sounds like the way to mark it! I also like the idea that it comes in rolls and you can use it to mark your quilting designs. Thanks for testing it for us.
This looks like great stuff! If I were to get into “a” like everyone else is (I’m trying!!!), I’d say it would be great for placement lines on the background fabric. There are a few projects using this technique of my boys I want to do…this would work well for that! Also cool is the idea it can be purchased in rolls! Thanks for the opportunity for us all!
I would use it for many marking uses.
I still have some tracing paper and my wheel. I always thought it was a great tool.
I would love to win this tracing paper. I have a wheel, but have not been able to find this tracing paper.
I wouldn’t mind trying it.
yes, I remember this product from way back in my high school home economics classes. I haven’t used it for years but would like to try it again for marking quilting lines, embroidery or back basting applique. It would be a great product for those techniques.
Oooh. I’ve been wanting to try out transfer paper for embroidery patterns lately. Hopefully I will win some here! Thanks for the contest offer.
I would love to try it on Sashiko designs!
I so badly need something like this! I do a lot of machine applique and the dark fabrics are just so hard to trace anything on! The same holds true for hand embroidery. I have a light box but dark fabrics are not good with these older eyes. I have a big embroidery project I want to work on – 12 blocks and they’re pretty involved. This would make that so much easier. Thanks! blessings, marlene
I would try it with simple embrodiery work, instead of the blue pen thing. Sounds wonderful. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’d use it to work on improving my appliqué skills and on my landscape quilts.
I would definitely try marking quilts prior to quilting them! Thanks for the chance to win.
I have been doing embroidery and applique lately and would love to try this product. Thanks for the info and pictures of how you are trialing it. And for the chance to win some to try :-)
This transfer paper sounds like the perfect method to use to transfer my cloth doll patterns to the fabric! I am always upset when even the lightest of pencil lines show through the fabric for the tiny faces and fingers of the faeries.
NEAT! I’D SURE TRY IT WITH REDWORK!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
oh for redwork, embroidery for sure! looks terrific!
Can’t wait to try this product out. Thanx for the review.
My dream is to design and quilt a whole cloth quilt and I can see where this product would work perfectly for transferring my designs. Thanks for the give-away :)
I am so excited to see this. I am needing something that will mark well on dark fabrics for my embroidery work.
This looks like it would be great for marking designs for thread painting, and for marking quilting lines. It would also work for marking the layout of pieces of a fused applique project on the background fabric, since the fusing process won’t erase the lines or make them permanent. Thanks for the review, and the give-away.
A great giveaway, Thanks! And a great review! This product sounds like something I would like to try.
I would love to try it with wool. Wool is a hard material to get transfer lines to adhere and this sounds like it might work with wool.
Maybe even with marking for hand quilting…. Lots of ideas.
I have seen this product being used a lot lately.. I would love to win some so that I can try it out as well. Thanks for the chance to win!
Looks like a great product. I’ll have to see if I can purchase it. Thnx for the give-away.
Great review. I have been dying to try this product. I can see so many uses for it, but especially in my free form applique process. I typically draw my designs on tear-away and work from the back, but with this product, I could eliminate that step altogether : )
I was really interested to read your review as I’ve been trying to find a product that would work for tracing designs for stitchery blocks as well as for applique placement. Saral sounds like it absolutely fits the bill! I’d love a chance to try it out!
I’d love to try this out on both applique and embroidery – especially on dark fabrics. My first project with it would be some embroidery on dark fabric for a bag that’s been waiting for just the right marking tool since last fall!
I have an applique project just waiting for something like this to make my life easier! Would love to try it out.
oh well now this does look as though it is a VAST improvement over the stuff we used to use. I can see this a being a valuable tool for many processes in the quilt world. Sometimes you just want to be able to set down some “guide”lines for FMQ, this would be terrific to use in trapunto as well. I am amazed that you can still remove it even after it has been ironed………that alone is a major advantage!
Don’t you just LOVE all the new goodies being developed especially for us quilters!
Wonderful. I think Iwould used this to mark some guide points for free motion quilting. I almost ready to break out of the simple meandering, as much as I love it. Would love to win!
That transfer paper looks like just the thing I need to finish all my quilt UFOs! I have so many quilt tops waiting to be quilted, but OH! how to mark the design on a multicolored top?
I love to applique also and this just sounds great, just what I need:-) I would love to win this.
I would use this to mark applique, quilting designs and to mark darts and seam lines in garment sewing. I still have my tracing wheel from my middle school home ec class! And that’s a long time ago.
I would love to try this on making my own redwork lines, quite interesting to me.
I would tri this on applique. Looks very interesting!
I have used the white Saral. I bought it for my first attempt at quilting, and I found that I could draw my quilting lines and stitch them with ease. Thanks,
I am constantly trying out new pencils, chalk, blue wash out pens for the perfect marking tool for quilting designs. I would love to use these to draw out my own quilting designs for my quilt top and also to use them to draw out thread embroider designs on my totes, wall quilts and book covers I’ve been making. I’m really excited about the chance to try these out! Thank you to you and Saral for offering this generous giveaway!!!
Not a very fast quilter. I hate when the patterns vanishes before I’m done
Great product review. I’d be interested in using this product to mark for applique, but primarily to mark designs for free-motion quilting.
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
I am learning how to free-motion quilt. I’d use the transfer paper to set up some practice squares.
What a great product! I would use these for marking my crazy quilting motifs, or my free motion quilting, or my applique placement. So many potential uses!
I’d like it for hand quilting. I always rub chalk off before I even get to that place to quilt it. I too am always trying new things for quilting designs and am usually disappointed.
Great review! i would use it to mark applique placement, and also for marking some design placement ideas. I hadn’t seen this product before, thanks for bringing it to my attention! I am sure I would find other uses for it too.
I would try it for marking quilts for free motion quilting. I’m always worried that the products I use won’t come out, so this product sounds like one I should add to my bag of tricks!
I’m doing a BOM with a stitchery center and I would use the paper for next months block rather than holding it up to a window!
I can see many uses for this product – so glad you shared it with us!
This product sounds great. I would love to use it when I applique.
Sorry – in my post I didn’t say how I would use it! I do a lot of needle turn applique combined with embroidery on many of the applique pieces – I can see where the tracing paper would be very useful in marking those tiny little pattern lines.
I would use it for hand and machine quilting, I’m so afraid that the marks i do don’t go away when I wash it
I immediately thought of how this will help in my free-motion quilting design! Then I went over to your “back-basting” tutorial and got another inspiration! Love your blog! :o)
This sounds like a great product. I would like to learn applique , and free motion quilting. I would love to try it.
Freemanor
It looks like it would be great for applique, as you say, but I’d also be interested in trying it out on an embroidery project. Thanks for the review!
This product sounds wonderful! I would primarily use it for marking quilting designs, but it would be great for applique and marking design placement too. How wonderful not to have to worry whether or not the markings will come out! :)
I think I’ll try some on black background.
I think this paper would be great for applique. Not only for marking applique pieces but for marking the background for perfect placement.
I’ve always wanted to try stenciling – This would actually be a perfect way to do that – just copy your stencil design, and paint with thickened dyes or fabric paint. If the lines wash away, it would probably be the best method on the market for this technique!
I would definitely use this for my Redwork embroidery – thank you for such a generous offer and opportunity. Judy C judyandmartyn@nc.rr.com
http://www.shadetreequilting.com
I would also love to try this product to mark hand quilting lines. I used to use an air erasable pen a lot, but now I live where it is more humid & the ink fades faster than I can quilt. I am starting to do more applique’ so I can see where this would really come in handy for that also.
I’m always looking for good ways to mark quilting lines. Wonder how it would work for that?
Great product review. I’d be interested in using this to mark designs for free-motion quilting.
I’d use it to transfer my design to machine quilt since I’m not good thinking of a design. Thanks for the chance to win this product.
I would use the light colors to mark my dark backgrounds for applique placement as I dislike using overlays!
I would love to try using these papers for transferring designs onto dupioni silk for ribbon and thread work. Thanks for the opportunity!
This looks like a great product to use for tracing embroidery and applique placement. Thanks for the review and a chance to win!
I have been making a set of Angry Birds for my grandson and this would be perfect for marking where the beaks, eyes and eyebrows go. He loves throwing the eggs at the piggies and pretending that he is defending his birds eggs. We have such long winters that he needed something he could play inside without hurting anything.
I got the patterns from http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2010/12/angry-birds-plush.html.
You did a great review! thanks.
This looks like just the ticket for marking hand-quilting lines. I tried to old stuff a few years ago & it was awful!
Looks like a product I’d like to use for machine quilting–you are so right about the chalk disappearing!
Thanks so much!
Carole
I’ve been wanting to try this and am glad to see your review so that I know it works.
I’d use this to make my own embroidery pattern from a picture that I like.
ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com
I’d love to try this!
I would use it for machine quilting lines. I remember that same old stuff from home-ec class. Infact one of my old tables has all those little tracing wheel lines.
Ooh, I can see printing out a word or name, then tracing the letters for ideal spacing!
I have lots of quilting/applique patterns that would be GREAT for this. I red work waiting to get done. It will be wonderful to mark a quilt and not have chalk or ink disappear before I finish. It’s a very exciting product.
I would use it to mark placement for applique and machine quilting. I remember the old stuff and wheel also, this will be a wonderful improvement!
I remember the tracing wheel, I still have mine. I love to do machine embroidery and quilts this would be a good tool to make the quilting lines to guide me around the embroidery designs, don’t want to cover them up.
As well as using it myself for embroidery patterns/ applique and quilting, my grandchildren would find this a perfect product to use to trace their own drawings onto fabric/felt ready for stitching.
This product is not for sale here in Molde, Norway. I would like to try it on my quilts!
Trine
I would use it to trace my stitchery patterns as well as my quilting lines ( I’m not an experienced quilter yet).
I would definately use this for quilting!
Looks like the ticket for marking hand quilting lines!
Thanks for sharing this with us.
This would be wonderful for marking my DOTS on hand pieced items. Getting the corner dots marked precisely is important to getting my pieces to fit together nicely. Hope I win and can give it a try!
This stuff looks FANTASTIC…. I think that I would use it to transfer embroider patterns on to dark fabric…. it would be so sweet!
I would use the Saral transfer paper for maarking motifs for Crazy Quilting. It looks like it would be great.
I have a set of vintage handkerchiefs from my mother. I could use this paper to trace the senorita pattern on the background fabric with the hankies becoming the skirt for the embroidered senoritas.
I would love to try that “Horse head” quilt for my daughter. I tried all the other ways to trace the heads on my fabric, only to give up and do something else!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this product. I have seen it about 10 years ago and at that point used it for decorative paint transferring. I had no idea that it could be used on fabric, nor be aware that it would wash away. What a great idea however, living in a regional area know it will be hard to find. I would love to be in the giveaway, as can see that this is something that I would use, particuarly with the different colours – just ideal – thanks for sharing.
This would be the perfect item for my stitcheries I am sick to death of my lines vanishing before completing my projects…
I am a beginning “art quilter.” I’m thinking this product would be very helpful for marking placement for beading and embroidery. I might also try using it for designing a quilt label.
What another god send this is. First there was TRANSFER EZE then SULKY-self adhesive sticky back & now SARAL. I use the fisrt two items & now will enjoy this item & I can’t wait. I will mostly use it for hand embroidery/stitchery work as I have too many irons in the fire. What I do when I see a future project is adapt what ever sticky film I have on hand & put that together with the fabrics & threads in a plastic bag & wait till I need it, I will welcome this new product with opened arms. My grandson will have something new to stitch on, never too young to teach a child.
I work mostly from my own applique designs, so I don’t have patterns to follow. I often have to revise my ideas over and over, and I need something that will stay when I need it to stay, and come out when I need to start over.
As a fumbling appliquer, the Saral is great for helping with placement of the pieces and also for marking the edges of my needleturn. Thanks for the give away.
This looks like an excellent product. Can’t wait to try it.
Hi Michelle i would love to use this waxed paper for sewing my embroidery designs and also for some applique projects that i would like to sew and this paper would give me the inspiration to do so,thankyou for a chance to win.
I don’t think I have ever tried this brand name. Thanks for the giveaway.
Hola Michelle, me sería muy útil este papel para dibujar mis apliqué en telas oscuras o gruesas. Por lo general uso mi caja de luz pero esta caja no me sirve en telas oscuras o gruesas. Estaría feliz de tener ese paquete de regalo.
Hi Michelle, I would be very useful this paper to draw my applied in dark or thick fabrics. Usually I use my light box but this box does not help in dark or thick fabrics. I would be happy to have this gift pack.
I would use it to trace a design onto fabric and then do free motion quilting to create a small whole-cloth quilt. I’ve been wanting to try that for an AAQI quilt.
This would be wonderful aor all kinds of quilting…thanks for the chance
I am always looking for a method that is better than what I am doing now. Since I have been quilting a long time, often friends and new quilters ask for advice. It would be good to keep up with the latest techniques.
Sounds wonderful I would love to take a sample to my quilting club for the girls @and 1 guy to try out I live in South Australia cheers Barb
It seems to me this would be excellent for tracing designs for embroidering as well and for using to guide placement of appliqued pieces. I love the selection of colors! Blessings!
I am interested in this for applique. I think it would be ideal for tracing. I think maybe quilting would be easier also. I would love to ‘give it a go.’
This sounds like just the ticket for tracing on a quilting pattern for machine quilting – I just can’t get the hang of meandering so maybe if I traced on a design I’d have better luck – sometimes straight lines get so boring but it’s all I know!!!
I would definitely use this for applique and embroidery.
Thanks for a chance to win! bimbi9 at verizon dot net
This would be great to use with my quilting. Looks like a great product. Thanks for the giveaway.
It would be fun to try this out! I like to make fabric postcards; how fun would it be to use it for that!
I would be great for applique and quilting. I do like to try new products. I like the idea that this SARAL stays on your work until you wash it out.
I would really like to try this for machine quilting. Iam a newbie at that and I think a few lines would be very helpful in getting the quilting spaced exactly right.
I keep hearing about this product and would love to give it a try. It looks perfect for a couple of embroidery and applique projects I have planned!
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I would LOVE to try this product….I will definitely use it for quilting designs!
Thank goodness for new inventions, I still have my tracing wheel LOl. This product sounds fantastic, I would love to give it a try for tracing stitching designs, applique, machine and hand quilting. Nice selection of colours too. Thanks for the giveaway!
Hallo Michele, thank you for sending me an e-mail so I can enter this give-away! I used a kind of this material years ago when I was making the clothes for my daughters, but it is not longer available in all the colours there once were! Only in yellow and white, the darker colours are now out and those are the ones that we like to use the most! I cross my fingers and hope! Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend, greetings
Lida
I would like to try this product. Thanks for the giveaway.
Just met at Appliqué Society and learned about the backside marking technique. Fairly new to needle turning and eager to improve!
Oh this would be just great for machine quilting as that is what I’m learning these days.
This would be great for copying my own quilting designs instead of using a template.
I haven’t tried this product before, thanks for the chance to win!
I am fascinated with machine quilting and would love to try this.
Would love to have this transfer paper to use to transfer my doodles into wall art as seen on my facebook photos.
Hoping … thank you
I’ve never done any free motion quilting yet, and would love to try it after sketching my own designs onto a quilt…this looks like it would be the perfect tool to help me succeed!
I love applique both by hand and machineapplique! So a nice tool to mark the seamlines would be very very welcome!
Hope of luck!
Kerstin in Hoor, Skane
Sounds fantastic ! Thank you for a chance to win some, because it’ll be quite a while before it will be available in the Netherlands :-( .
What a great idea. Sure beats having to drag out the light box.
I sew many pants for my daughter who uses a wheelchair. Manufacturers just don’t get it “right” when it comes to someone sitting all the time in their pants. I like to add pockets that have some beading or other special touch to make her pants less “homemade”. The Saral transfer papers would be a great help with these projects… and my quilting projects when I make time for those!
I would love to try this product for applique also. The back basting technique is a neat one to try. You will probably like it when you try it.
I am almost ready to start a new applique quilt ON BLACK!! I know I’m not crazy but after seeing one at our guild meeting, I HAVE to do this. This product would be the best for my new project as the author asks to use dressmaker transfer paper, which can be very messy. Thank you for the chance to win and try this very new and exciting product for us
I am learning Brazilian Embroidery and would use this to transfer patterns for that! Plus, my neice had twins and their first birthday is coming up. In Korea, the “Dol”, one year birthday, is a big celebration and the child wears bright colored traditional dress. I am making one for each of them and will embroider some of the traditional Korean embroidery onto the outfits.
I would like to try this product. Thanks for the giveaway.
@ the Moment I do applique too and for the dark blocks I need some awsome stuff to trace the lines
Thank you for the chance to get one
Have a great weekend
Hugs Gunda
This would be great for marking my quilts on the long arm as I like to mark as I go and pounce is good but the dust gets in my nose! )
It’s nice to know that a product I used to use years ago in my dressmaking days has been improved on and is still available. I know I could find a use for it in my quilting – transfering quilting lines to my tops and I’d also use if for applique of which I’m about to embark on a journey. Thanks for the review. Your articles are always helpful and informative.
Cheers
D
Australia.
I’d use this to transfer embroidery designs to fabric, to transfer designs I hand paint for crafts on wood or fabric totes, etc.. I could even see using the transfer papers to transfer a design like a Monogram over a child’s door or window on their wall, where you could paint it in. It would be nice to transfer a monogram on a child’s overall’s that you could either hand embroider in or even you fabric paints to fill in. It would be nice to use on pillowcases where you might want to hand embroider a monogram design. I made a two quilts once using an Old Testament coloring book and a New Testament coloring book and this would have really come in handy transferring the designs onto the blocks that where both hand embroidered and liquid embroidered in, as well as some ribbon embellishments added. These were twin size bed quilts made for my niece and nephew. So I know there are many, many uses this nice Saral wax free transfer paper could be used for, which would have been easier than the methods I used in the past that were hard to wash out.
i loved this as i make quilted diaper bags and have to draw the quilting lines on the back with this is could put them on the front with just a little work
I am about to start a redwork project and I think this would be just the ticket to transfer the design.
Hello I think in Holland we dont have this wax free paper.
So i like to try out .
Greetings Elly Schellekens koenders
Holland.
I would use this to transfer onto black fabric. For embroidery. I have a wonderful pattern for a black witches hat that I have had for a few years but have been unable to trace the design onto the black fabric. THis product looks great for that. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love to do redwork as well as applique so this product sounds very useful for both . Thanks for the chance to win .
Reading about the home economics transfer paper and wheel brought back many memories. I actually have both in one of my cutting table drawers! Wouldn’t it be nice to try something new and updated – and that doesn’t leave a mess. I am stepping outside my comfort zone and taking a class in using vintage linens/pieces (hankies, tablecloths, photos, embellishments, etc.) This would be a good tool to have to learn where to place things and then quilt them creatively!
It would be wonderful to use something that doesn’t smudge or fade away or worse yet doesn’t come out when you are finished that project.
It would great to have an alternative to the chalk for quilting. Great giveaway! Keeping my fingers crossed…
This would be great for marking quilting designs!
I always loved to sew. I have been concentrating on quilting for a while, but I would love to start sewing some dresses for my three grandgirls!! This would sure beat tracing paper for marking the patterns!!!
Wow, this looks a fabulous product for transferring designs onto felt. (That’s always difficult seeing you can’t see through it to trace lines.) And there are great possibilities there obviously for machine quilting.
I’m thinking this is a little machine quilting bliss.
Have been playing with Zentangles lately and trying to figure how to morph them into quilt designs. Thinking this will be a great way to transfer the guidelines.
This would be useful for transfering designs onto a quilt. I am not good at freehand stuff so tracing it would be ideal.
I like to use it for applique. I haven’t tried it on my machine quilter
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I would…. I think I would trace onto blocks for where to quilt – different flower and swirl shapes. So it would be freehand but patterned. See, I can see it in my head so much easier than typing it out! BTW, GREAT review. Thank you!
If I made it in time for the draw – I would use this product to draw out my quilting lines. I just took a free motion class and I love it – but I require some direction on the fabric or I get lost!
Thanks for sharing about this product!