I would also like to try this. Seems like a great idea.

I started doing that on my first big quilt - using tissue paper and pinning or spray basting it to the quilt, then hand quilt. It worked okay. I have not tried printing it on tissue paper though.

Sam's club sells a box of 500 sheets for about $6.00

Which question are you answering?

How about pressing freezer paper on to the tissue before sending it through?

Why can't you iron the tissue paper onto freezer paper and run it through the printer. I do that with fabric.

These are all terrific ideas, does anyone have a similar solution for hand quilting. There are certain colors that are very difficult to see the tracing lines on & have tried so many different markers (at the same time) that I could not wash them out or they rubbed off.

By the time you go through all the trouble of cutting the tissue then getting it "fixed" onto printer paper or spend the time also cutting the freezer paper just to send it though your printer you have in fact wasted more time than you would have spent by just tracing the pattern onto a full size piece of tissue paper.

Plus if by chance you get even a tiny little drop on the printed paper you are going to ruin your quilt. The printer ink will RUN all over the place if it gets wet.

I think you sister in law has the right idea, although it seems time consuming I think it is the best way in the end. However I too would be wondering if there were an easier way to do it. I just don't think there is.

Thanks for all the comments and tips, everyone.

I use the deli papers that come in a box, the kind used to wrap lunch meats at the deli counter. Trace the design on the paper, run it through your sewing machine (no thread) making holes when following the pattern, then use the chalk pounce to transfer design to your fabric.