Here is a case in point. I cut this Sue Mey design. She has a number of overlays (love, joy, peace, faith, hope, Jesus, etc). Since I was doing 24 crosses in total and I was using 3/4" stock for the backer stack cutting was out of the questions. So I put the pattern one time on a piece of 1/8" hardboard, cut it out and used it to trace out all my crosses. The 1/8" template is hanging on my shop wall with other similar templates for future use.