I have used the Q-tip method and have also used a tracing wheel to perforate the pattern prior to stitching and that helps with folding and ultimately removing the paper that has been sewn with a shorter stitch length. However, If you take freezer paper and carefully iron it to copy paper and trim it precisely, you can then transfer the pattern by copying it to the freezer paper ( obviously you then peal away the copy paper) and use the flip and sew method. This way you can use this pattern many times because you have not sewn through the pattern and this method allows you to simply peal away the freezer paper from the finished block.