HancyBlue Quilt Pounce Pad

This Hancy 4-Ounce Quilt Pounce Pad with Chalk Powder, White, works great for my purposes.I have used a chalk roller for years in my sewing but never a pounce pad. However, I am making masks every day now and cutting multiple layers of fabric at a time. I am using a thick, cardstock, pattern piece and have been drawing around it onto the fabric using a chalk pencil or a pen. When I saw this, I thought it might make the process much faster and easier and it does.This is basically a shallow, plastic, container that is open on the bottom and covered with faux lambswool. There is a hole in the top and you fill it with the included, powdered chalk. The chalk works its way through the lambswool and you can rub it on your fabric through a stencil or around a durable pattern piece to mark the stitching or cutting lines.While this is marketed as a tool for quilters, you have to understand the nature of the chalk. The chalk will come off pretty easily so if you are trying to mark a large quilt, you will have to spray the chalk markings with hairspray to keep them in place until you stitch because otherwise, the chalk will come off before you even get the whole quilt marked.For me, it works perfectly. Mask pieces are fairly small and I just mark a row of pieces with the chalk and then cut them out before marking another row. The chalk stays on long enough for that and it's so much faster than drawing around the pattern piece by hand.Note that when filling the pouncer initially, it will take some time to get the chalk worked into the lambswool. The directions in the package are very good so follow them. Subsequent chalk fillings take less time.

Arrived on time. Bought the white one to be able to use it once I begin quilting my predominately dark-colored quilt. I have only used it once before in a class, but it was a huge help with stenciled patterns.

This rub off powder does not stick to the quilt long enough to see where the lines are. Also the vibration of the machine makes the powder jump and move. Ended up on the quilting foot and I can imagine after using for a long time that it would work its way down in the bobbin area. There is another powder that is supposed to adhere better. It's an iron off. I may try that before I give up on this method. Would recommend the pounce but be careful to choose the correct powder.

Great chalk, easy to use

I used this to make my first free motion quilt and it did the job. The chalk however doesn't brush off easily and I had to wash my quilt to get the blue powder to come off. If you don't want to wash your quilt this may not be the product for you but I used basting spray to help keep my quilt together while quilting so I was planning on washing it anyways. It was perfect for what I needed it for and I would recommend it.

The product works the way it is supposed to, I guess. I even had the right kind of stencil. The problem is that the combination doesn't work the way it is supposed to. You can't connect the stencil to itself to make a long border and get it to connect in the right places. The pounce pad is so imprecise you don't know when you've succeeded in marking and when you haven't.Three decades ago, when I made my first quilt, I made my own stencil and my own pounce out of talcum powder. This certainly is better and I expect the marking would last a lot longer than the talcum powder did, but still brush away when you no longer wanted it. So, as you can tell, I understand the system. But it just did not work for me.

This is a must for any seamstress that uses templets.

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