This is great stuff! Not only is it easy to use to trace a pattern, it's strong enough that you could sew it up and try it on! It's soft and feels like material. It has held up well to lots of handling, too. This is the only tracing paper I'd use at this point. Everything else causes more work.

Used this to design a pattern for a stuffed greyhound toy. It works perfectly for all stages, you can use it to trace the hand drawn pattern, then cut out what you traced and sew it, to see how it works. It is easy to handle and surprisingly strong. I have used is as backing for fabtics that fray and as backing for very thin pattern peices and I have used it as straight up pattern paper. It is a very very useful product at a good price.

I use this for test fitting new patterns I've drafted before cutting the master pattern from it as well. Far more durable than using cardstock or graph paper once the fit is perfect I'll use this for my folder of completed DIY patterns. Pins will ruin anything over time, I prefer using weights or binder clips to hold my fabric down without perforating anything but this goes further than cardboard and drapes with your fabric to give more accurate cuts. I love being able to baste the paper together and make minor alterations without having to go through tracing, cutting, pinning, and stitching then ripping out seams and starting all over again refitting with muslin.

A pencil or fine point pen works great, markers tend to bleed through too easily so I use different colored gel pens to designate sizes, make margin notes, and specific markings on all my master patterns. Somewhere between fabric and paper that drapes nicely it's so much less of a pain than going through two or more muslin mock ups before everything fits perfectly. If you're like me you probably want to jump on the nice fabric for the main project and hate having to work on muslin. Try using it for embroidery paper on leather or denim if that isn't enough. You can even use it to pin strips onto clothes and baste the fit quickly when tailoring an existing garment. I wish I knew about this stuff 15 years ago! Anyone who has a sewing machine and knows their way around it should try this stuff. I spend less time fiddling with fit or pattern alterations and more time actually sewing. I just wish it came in larger wider rolls or printed like graph paper.

I've tried various tracing paper products and had no luck finding one that I liked. Some tracing papers are so thin that I kept ripping them while I was tracing while other ones I tried like the medical grade papers were too stiff and made it hard to work with them.

I love this Swedish tracing paper from Birchstreet because it is transparent enough to make tracing easy (it will bleed ink through so be aware of that!) and the best part is I can work directly with the traced pattern to try out the fit and skip the muslin step completely.

I do wish it came in different widths but the biggest problem I have with this is that I'm constantly running out!

I love this. I bought this and the exam paper for tracing paper. I like this product much better. I have an infant son and I like the fact that I can get my money's worth on my Oliver + S patterns by tracing each size on this tracing paper. It feels like a smooth dryer sheet so it's sturdier than the exam table paper and you can sew the pattern together for fitting purposes without making a muslin first. I wish I hadn't wasted money on the exam table paper.