If need a stabilizer for applique I use coffee filters!
they are cheap and tear away easily!
used them for machine embroidery too!
just iron them flat.
reminds me of a funny story:
friend was helping me get some embroidered quilt blocks finished and she was ironing a whole pack of coffee filters
a homeowner came in to talk to my hubby about his new addition and his wife kept looking at us funny but didn't say anything!
we didn't think much about it until the next day when my husband said she just had to ask,had been wondering all night, why were we ironing the coffee filters?