I have had good luck with just regular printer paper. A couple of years ago I designed a complicated spiral to use in a snail's trail quilt. I took it to a copier and had enough copies made to do the whole quilt. The trick was, I wadded the paper up really tightly, smoothed it out and did that again. It broke the paper down enough to make it easily removed after quilting and wetting it.

I never would have thought of that but it makes sense. Oh the things I learn on this forum.

Lots of great ideas!!! I have not tried anything with paper so far, just normal cut and sew. Maybe I will get adventurous some day....and now I have plenty of tips to do so! Thanks ladies.

i typically buy the golden threads paper & sulky super solvy from from jhittles online.

its a mom/pop type operation that has some really great prices, the service is awesome, and they are both as sweet as a peach - whenever i can i order from them.

every now and again they have a special that if you phone in your order they send you a surprise goodie bag with the order.

the last time i did this, i got 2 packages of machine needles, 2 packages of hand quilting needles, fusible velcro, a nice seam ripper, etc.

Alrighty then, I will try this first. I already have my pattern drawn out on regular printer paper. I have a couple of test patterns that didn't make the cut, so I will make a little quilt sandwich and give it a test drive.

Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful tips!