Gayle I use regular recycled copy paper that the gals at my former office save for me. It's amazing how much copy paper we waste (cover sheets, duplicates, etc) that in 6 months I have a stack equal to 5 reams of paper. I like the idea of recycling but if I didn't have access to this I'd buy cheap copy paper at Walmart. I've never had problems removing it. As for thread, I use ConnectingThreads thread, never bought any special thread for pp.