Sheree from Chicago

Simply Amazing Translucent Foundation Paper
RaNae Merrill Quilt Design
www.ranaemerrillquilts.com

dljennings

my mom got rid of all her scrapbooking stuff & i got a ton of white vellum... that stuff works great...

not great enough that i'd pay what they get in scrapbooking departments, but if you find it cheap....

skjack

I love Caral Doak's paper. it goes thru the printer great and tears away very easily. use 40% coupon at Joann's.

fireworkslover

If the pattern is too large to fit thru your printer, than you can use tracing paper. I've a large tablet of it: 19" X 24". It's called Parchment paper. It's thinner than newsprint and easy to trace from a book or printed pattern. It tears away easily too. If I have any trouble, using a tweezers, is the answer.

galvestonangel

I like the thin cheaper paper. But I found out the Carol Doak paper did not work in my printer, the blocks were off from i/4 to 1/2 inch on 6 inch blocks. So check your blocks after you have printed them, I caught it after 1 1/2 blocks.

goldendog55

The best way to get any paper off of a paper pieced block is to sew with a small stitch. For some machines, that will be 1.5 and on the other kind, it is 8-10 stitches per inch. That is terrible if you make a mistake, but you will have no problem tearing it off, and it also makes the block less likely to unravel or have lose seams.

happyscrappy

ever since i used parchment paper, i only use that. try it, you'll love it

barbrdunn

I don't paper piece much, but one time I was doing someting very small and I could not get the paper out, even with tweezers. I found a water soluble paper that worked great, but was quiite expensive if I remember.

Cherokeequilter

I have tried all types of paper and find that many are difficult to remove even when they are run through the sewing machine for the little holes. Finally, I spotted the cheap notebooks for children to practice writing. Sometimes they are called "doodle pads" by Crayola and I look for them in Walmart, Kmart or other similar places. These need to be cut down to the 8 1/2 x 11 size to go through the printer but work like a charm. I have never had the printer jam yet and since I use several of Carol Doak's CD programs, I can just adjust the pattern to the needed size. She also has many patterns for free on the internet. If I need many I stack the patterns up and run the machine without thread. I never get the stress on the seams when I remove the paper this way. This paper also folds well and I have now converted my paper piecing instructor to this method. (The problem comes when you convert too many friends and then you find yourself not getting enough paper yourself.)

zz-pd

Up north gave me some patterns for paper piecing, but I have not been brave enough to try yet. :D . God bless.