Last week I showed you the “old school” method of applying a pattern - hand drawing. If you missed that email, you’ll find it by clicking here

 

Another method of pattern application that I used for a while was sliding a piece of carbon paper under the pattern and tracing over each line.

 

If you didn’t ask yourself, “What’s carbon paper?”, we’re in the same age category.

 

Later it became better to use graphite transfer paper because the left over pattern lines could be removed easier than carbon paper lines.

 

When I was applying the pattern for this month’s new project, 3-Candle Holder Display, I broke out the graphite transfer paper to show you this process and compared it to using the Pattern Transfer Tool. Here’s a short video with the results…