Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I found a tip to use medical table paper rolls to trace sewing patterns to preserve all of the sizing available on your patterns on the website PatternReview.com quite a while ago and this is my 4th roll. It lasts a really long time and those 4 rolls were used over a period of about 10 years. It works great, is a bit thin as all medical table paper is but this has pros and cons: Pros - you can clearly see the pattern you are tracing through this paper. If you have a dark colored table I recommend you obtain some white poster board and cover the table top. I just tape the poster board to my table with plain old masking tape and if it gets marked up or wet it's really easy to replace. Of course, if you don't have a dedicated table to work on (say you use your kitchen table) then you would have to remove it between uses but you can get a box of the poster board here on Amazon very inexpensively and you could use painters tape that doesn't leave any residue so it's not an issue. I bought the full box and the price was very reasonable. The poster board allows you to see what you are tracing very easily. Cons - with the wrong pencil (think hard lead) and/or eraser it will tear a lot and give you much grief. If you use a pencil with a soft lead and a hi-polymer eraser you have very few, if any, tears from marking and/or erasing. I keep my traced patterns and use them over and over again, they are very durable. This is great stuff and if you sew you should definitely give this product a try. It's worth it's weight in gold in my opinion!!