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Blonnie: I am not a machine quilter but if I was, I would be using this tool constantly. I have watched both Carla and my other sister use this and I am quite impressed. I tried it out and boy, oh, boy how easy it makes marking your quilt. You put a stencil down on your quilt where it is going to be quilted. You take your Pounce (which looks like an eraser you would use on a chalkboard) and glide it over the stencil. Remove the stencil and voila! You have a great marked design on your quilt and you are ready to go! The chalk like substance is inside the pounce pad and is refillable. There are two kinds of chalk. One is wash off, and one is iron off. The iron off is the best and easiest to remove because you don’t have to wet your quilt. The Pounce takes away a lot of time that it would take to use a marking pen or whatever method you use to mark. It does not smear like other methods I have seen (like using cornstarch in a similar fashion). So, if you want a great way to mark your quilt for quilting, and get an accurate design, go with the Pounce! I will as soon as I am brave enough to machine quilt! Blonnie's Ratings: 
Carla: Since I have been doing more machine quilting, I have found that this product has been a useful tool for marking quilting designs. With it, I can easily use stencils as well as perforated paper to mark designs. If you're like me, I thought that it was meant to be pounced up and down over the stencil but that is not how it is applied. Silly me! The Quilt Pounce pad has a receptacle that is filled with the marking powder and then is swiped over the stencil onto the fabric. The key word here is "swiped"! Set the pad down and move it across the stencil. You can repeat if needed until the design is completely transferred to the fabric. If you pounce or tap it, it will not work as well and you'll have puffs of powder and not as clean of a transfer. The Quilt Pounce pad is designed to be used with any of the 3 different powders available. The Ultimate Quilt Pounce powder comes in white only and is removed by ironing. I really like this powder the most. There is also the kind that must be washed out and it comes in blue and white. DO NOT IRON THIS ONE!!! I never buy that kind so don't have to worry about it. I've never used the blue powder so don't know how well it washes out. If any of you have, please let us know how you like it. The different types are marked on the bags as "Iron Away" or "Wash Away". As far as sewing on the marked lines, I find that the marking stays visible for as long as I need it to. I don't mark the entire quilt at one time, but rather in sections as I'm ready to quilt. The powder goes a long way. Refill bags are available for purchase separately from the pad so that is a money saver. I try to stay away from hand quilting as much as possible but it is meant to be used for hand or machine quilting.
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