Originally Posted by Calif Jane

The trick with freezer paper is to make it three sheets thick; then it is easy to use starch and press the seam over the paper. Remove the paper and attach the applique to your background fabric. Freezer paper is great because you can trace the pattern onto one thickness, then layer the three sheets and then cut it out on the line. Then iron the freezer paper template to the wrongside of the fabric. You will be ironing the freezer paper to your ironing board, but no problem. You can use your freezer paper template multiple times and it will still stick to your fabric. The template is easily removed from your applique before gluing it to the background.