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

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....

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

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