I made 8 paper pieced tulips last weekend. I drew the tulip out on graph paper. I sewed the graph paper to a stack of phone book pages, all the way around, using a large stitch. Then I stitched all the sewing lines, including the border, without thread. Take the pages apart, used those pages for pp. As they were pre-perfed, paper tore out very easily. Next time, I will use a longer stitch on the perfing (I used 12, so will try 8-old machine, that is stitches per inch), as they became fragile too quickly. Also, I will preperf stitch past the pattern lines, so when I flip it over to stitch, I can see where to stop & start better.
I made first one, then the other 7 assembly line, stitching the same section over & over.
If the paper isn't coming out, I use a q tip dipped in water on the stitching lines only. I use my serger tweezers, as it has a long grabbing tip, so I lay that along the stitching, and have about 3/8" paper to pull on at once.