Quilt Pounce

I have decided that the current quilt top that I have finished will not be finished off by stitch-in-the-ditch or grid quilting. I really want to do some free motion quilting, but the idea of tracing out a stencil leaves me feeling less than enthusiastic about the whole prospect, and I am nowhere near good enough to do it without a pattern. Funnily enough, only the other day I happened to stumble across a very interesting quilting tool called a Quilt Pounce.
  
It is really a very 'cool' invention. You basically swipe chalk into your stencil with this little tool and it comes out on your quilt really clearly.  So I went ahead and ordered mine, and it came today. I had a bit of a play around with it and it really does work. It took quite a while to get the pad 'loaded' with chalk, but once it loaded it was full steam ahead. The lines came out very clearly and any mistakes I made just wiped off with a damp cloth. It just makes marking quilts so much easier - even my husband was impressed. Now, the next test will be to see if I can actually free motion quilt on the lines. I am going to be practicing on a scrap quilt I put together and see how it goes.