I use sandwich wrap for multiples of a design......I put the original design on top of a stack of sandwich wrap...........take the thread out of the machine and then stitch over all the lines of the design. Then you can pull off a sheet a time from the bottom of the stack. If necessary mark the numbers on the sheet to help with the order of stitching............

I have read that you can even use newspaper, altho I haven't done it.
I have just used computer paper, typing paper; most anything, and it worked well.
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I have often used pages from an old telephone book. they are nice and thin and easy to tear away. You can print in a colour other than black for the pattern lines.

paper piecing is almost impossible for me(have rhumatoid arthritis) as I have only the use of my fore-finger & thumb on left hand....so I use used dryer sheets that I have ironed onto the shiny side of freezer paper that has been cut to run thru my printer...put the pattern in the printer & scan...you don't have to remove your printed pattern & that makes a good foundation for the blk.

I am well into a Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt and I used freezer paper for all of it. I have a metal hexagon template, trace the center part onto the freezer paper and then cut out. I use the miniature iron to iron the fabric edges over the freezer paper. (Fabric has been cut using the outside edges of the template which makes it 1/4-in larger.) This eliminates any basting. After joining the hexagons, the freezer paper pulls out very easily after you have joined your pieces.

I am doing some rosettes for the Aussy GFG quilt and did order the paper pieces from a store in Illinois. This is my first for using those types of paper pieces. They work well, especially since the flowers are getting mailed to Australia.

Be sure to leave the paper piecing in the fabric until you have joined the various rows. You sure have received a lot of good ideas. This Board is a blessing.

I have used regular copy paper too but I also have a sister that works for a Doctor and the paper they roll out for you to sit on is great for paper or foundation piecing. i have her get me a roll of it. So if you have any connections....

I have an industrial sized box from Costco..or place like it..it is the kind they use in deli's to wrap sandwiches or put in a basket..Not tissue paper, not waxed..but very see through and great to work with. They pull out of the box like tissue paper..so there is one fold in the middle of the sheet.

I use computer copy paper and a smaller stitch as well. The other thing I do before tearing the paper off, is to spritz the paper with water and it tears more easily.

I go to the kids section of office supplies in KMart. The off-white cheap tablets have very good paper for paper piecing. I try to get the 81/2 by 11" tablets because they fit in the copier. They tear away much easier than notebook paper of copy paper and are even cheaper. Be careful when you iron each peice because the ink can transfer onto your ironing board cover.

I use long serger tweasers to pull of the paper in hard to get at places. It is also good to "snap" the piece by quickly giving it a little stretch. this seems to get the paper to pop off!