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 If the pattern is one you intend using over and over, it will pay you to duplicate it in stiff paper. Wrapping paper will do. Iron out all the wrinkles in the tissue paper pattern, using an iron that is warm, not hot. Then lay each piece of the tissue paper pattern on the wrapping paper. Weigh down the pieces with paper weights and trace around the edges with a tracing wheel, being very careful to follow exactly the outline of the tissue paper pattern.

After tracing around each pattern piece, remove the tissue paper pattern. Mark over the traced lines with a pencil, as a pencil line is much easier to follow in cutting than a traced line. Where the edge is a straight line, lay a ruler and draw the line with a pencil. In penciling over the curved edges, use your curved ruler and the traced lines as a guide. Use sharp shears to cut the new pattern. Cut just inside the marks; that is, cut the marks off. You will remember that the marks were placed just beyond the edge of the tissue paper pattern, and you want the new pattern to be the exact size of the old. A stiff paper pattern of this description is much easier to handle than a flimsy tissue paper one.