Recently, I’ve posted a couple articles on carbon transfers for getting embroidery designs onto fabric.

Carbon-style transfer techniques are useful enough that it’s good to be familiar with them. You never know when this approach might come in handy, depending on the fabric you’re using, the size or scope of your design, and so forth.

It probably won’t surprise you, if you’ve read the two articles (Part I here and Part II here), that these aren’t my go-to methods for transferring designs. I would rather trace with a pencil than use a carbon transfer method.

But you can’t always trace a design. In cases where you can’t, there are still other methods I prefer over carbon transfer.

Still, carbon transfer is a useful option to know, and it works well under some circumstances.

Today, we’re going to look at the method on dark fabric, using artist’s white “graphite” paper and DMC’s transfer carbon. Then, we’ll chat about a different approach for dark fabric, and I’ll make some suggestions on modifications and techniques you can try.

Have you seen DMC’s new fine-tipped, water-soluble embroidery transfer pen?

When it came out earlier this year, I grabbed a couple of them so that I could try them. I figured you might be curious about them and might want to know what they’re like.

So today, we’ll take a look at this new transfer pen and chat about it.