Tracing Templates and Cutting Shapes

Cutting shapes and tracing templates can affect your work drastically, so you need to know how to do it properly.

What you need:

- Pencil
- Baking paper/ Tracing paper or any see through paper
- Scissors
- Pins
- Fabric

How to Trace Templates and Cut Shapes:


1. Set the paper down onto the book, or thing you are tracing from, and hold still.
2. Carefully trace the template with your pencil. Do not move the paper.
3. Remove your traced paper and cut out the template with scissors.
4. Pin to your fabric and cut carefully.