I do not know how anyone else feels about heat bond the kind you get from walmart but the strong hold makes the item you are appliquing hard and too tough to sew it will cause you to break needles or to prick yourself many times, now the light is not too bad but myself I do not like the strong at all. I did a hand applique and quilted quilt with that before I really knoew how and it turned out okay but it was hard and tough.