hiw do you get the pattern you want to sew onto the printed sheets from yellow pages phone book? By hand with marker or run thru printer?
ive used perspectus reports mailed to me for foundation work, its like newsprint thickness

karamarie, if you have the pattern on paper already, like you get when you buy a pattern, you put it in the top of your printer and copy it onto the newsprint, which you place in the tray. If you don't have a printer, copy them at a library or Staples, etc., but it'll probably have to be on ordinary copy paper. Otherwise, you can trace them by hand onto newsprint if you don't have a gazillion to make. I've done that, too. If you are getting the pattern for free off the internet, you have to download it into your computer, then tell the computer to make copies with your printer, with whatever kind of paper you choose in the tray.

I use onionskin and love it

I like just using cheap copy paper, but I have also learned that a tiny pair of forceps (ask your local nurse, they always have them) to pull off the itty bits. Works great. I have left some itty bits in the work, and it worked OK.

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I use deli papers I get from Sam’s. A box of 500 sheets is less than $10.00. Can’t beat the price. I shorten my stitches and the paper comes off very easily.

Once again, I must say, the replies to this thread are as varied as our members. Thanks, everyone, for all your personal input. I feel that's what creativeness is about. We all have what works for us and we put it out there and, I'm sure, so many of your ideas click with someone (as a lurker, many members have contributed to my craft over the years... thank you)

I found newsprint worked great and was a good price

When I first started PPing, I thought you had to have "special" paper, so I bought Carol Doak's paper. It's nice. Then I bought a pk of newsprint, but it kept getting caught in my printer. Now I just use cheap copy paper and it works like a charm.

I went to my local newspaper and got what they call an "end roll" for free. When their rolls get low, they just toss them in the garbage. They're happy to give them away. The end roll I got must have had about 50 yards still left on it.

I used to buy pp designs already printed out. Can't find them any more except for a couple patterns. Using my printer to print them can be very expensive and limit the size of the pattern.