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Old 08-28-2016, 03:15 AM
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I use paper from my printer - a bit frugal I know - but it works great and is always on hand!
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Old 08-28-2016, 04:51 AM
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I use newsprint. It's really easy to get off after you're through piecing. I look around on the web for the cheapest prices. I also have some vellum (spelling???). I bought a ream of it at the Papermill.com. It's super easy to remove. Since I've started doing Judy Niemeyer patterns I haven't had to do any printing or use any other paper, but her patterns expensive.
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Old 08-28-2016, 05:24 AM
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If I'm doing regular paper piecing, I use blank newsprint that I buy at Michaels on a pad with a coupon.

My favorite method is freezer-paper piecing. You fold the seam back and sew next to it so there is no paper to tear off and the freezer-paper pattern can be reused several times.

This is where I learned the method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMiC1_JdqQ
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Old 08-28-2016, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by 5moose View Post
dickblick.com has reams of newsprint paper. 500 sheets per package. My printer has no problem feeding it through and its only in the neighbor hood of $3 something a ream
This is what I do and no problems here. And it comes in 8.5x11.
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Old 08-28-2016, 08:48 AM
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I just use my regular printer paper.
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Old 08-28-2016, 10:48 AM
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I use the useless phone books that I find thrown on my front porch. The paper is very thin which makes it easy to tear off the back of the project, there's lots pages and it's free!
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Old 08-29-2016, 05:52 AM
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I took a piece of the Carol Doak paper, which I love (but it's too expensive) to a paper factory, where they identified it as newsprint, plain old newsprint, and sold me a gigantic 12" wide roll for about $9, if I remember right. It should last me the rest of my days, and I calculated that each sheet I cut off of the roll costs me less than a penny.
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Old 08-29-2016, 06:28 AM
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I use this too from dickblick.com. Sooooo affordable! Lasts me a long time... Use it a lot 'cause I only do paper pieceing...

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This is what I do and no problems here. And it comes in 8.5x11.
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Old 08-29-2016, 06:36 AM
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I use light weight tracing paper. Buy it by the roll.
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Old 08-29-2016, 06:38 AM
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Originally Posted by marge954 View Post
I use the useless phone books that I find thrown on my front porch. The paper is very thin which makes it easy to tear off the back of the project, there's lots pages and it's free!

That's good for foundation piecing but not paper piecing. PP is having the pattern printed or drawn on the paper.
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