Paper piecing paper

Awhile ago someone posted a website to get inexpensive paper piecing paper. Anyone have any good places to go?

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Boca Jan
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I dunno about that on-line place.

My favorite paper is thin vellum. You can easily see your fabric through it so you know things are in the correct place when you sew. I get it by the ream at the local office place.

For less traditional paper, I buy the 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of freezer paper. I run them through the printer and then do the fold and sew method...so I don't have to sew through the paper and best of all so I don't have to spend forever ripping stupid paper bits of my block.

marcella

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Marcella Peek

I get mine from

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Boca Jan wrote:

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GrammyKathy

Are you now using that method for all your PP, Marcella? I have been in a rush since I learned it, so I haven't really used it to any great extent (eg practice!). So, if you are, do you find it adaptable to any sort of PP design? Actually, I have four little cornerstones which will probably be done on Saturday, so, if you think it is OK for most things, I'll give it a try. I don't mind taking the paper off, but I like the fact that the fabric doesn't shift as it is stuck! Thanks in advance for your help. Also, do you think there might be another name for 'vellum'? Here, vellum would be parchment - what used to be made from animal skins - which is clearly not what you mean. Our vellum would be very thick, firm and expensive. . In message , Marcella Peek writes

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Patti

Honestly, I don't know if the freezer paper method would work for all blocks. I don't do a lot of paper piecing, so I haven't looked at that carefully. Not sure why it wouldn't but as soon as I say "yes, it works for every block" someone will show me a block where it doesn't :-)

I don't know another name for vellum. Wickipedia says "British acts of Parliament are still printed onto vellum for archival purposes." So there must be some vellum over there for consumers. It is parchment but a very light weight when use for paper piecing. It's a translucent paper. Around here lots of card makers and scrapbookers use it. They can might stamp on something and then put vellum over top and the design shows through.

It does come in very heavy weights for cover stock and such, but for paper piecing, I use the lightest weight I can find. Tears out easily and see through for fabric placement.

C&T also sells it

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marcella

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Marcella Peek

Sue says vellum is another name for Vilene(sp?) here in the UK!

I am interested in this subject as I have just started my HMS Daring quilt and am paper piecing the superstructure. :-(((

Newbie Eddie

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Eddie

Oh! That's a surprise. Thanks for asking Sue, Eddie. I did find a craft vellum on Google; but that was paper. So, maybe there are two kinds and two uses? Never mind - I was only interested. . In message , Eddie writes

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Patti

I use "Papers for Foundation Piecing" from That Patchwork Place. It used to be the one Carol Doak recommended, though she now has her own paper. It is quite a bit less expensive than other paper piecing papers I have found and it works very well in the printer and it tears away easily. Plain old copier or printer paper is probably the cheapest and works pretty well, but is not as easy to tear away cleanly as regular foundation paper. I took a class from Gail Garber once, and she had us using freezer paper. It's nice to be able to hold the fabric in place, but hard to tear off. I've never tried the freezer paper method where you fold the paper back along the line and stitch beside the fold.

Julia in MN

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Julia in MN

Hi Patti

Sue says to tell you all that I am driving her mad looking for pieces for my quilt! :-))

Oh my!! paper piercing ain't easy. ;-))

She also says she has never done fold and sew paper piercing but that I should try.

Eddie

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Eddie

There are two kinds of vellum. Genuine vellum which is made from animal skins. That is the stuff that acts of parliament and very old books are done with. Drafting, craft, or "calligrapher's" vellum, is a paper with a vellum finish surface. I put calligrapher's in quotes because most of the ones I know would prefer genuine if they could get it. I do belive that the second variety, the vellum finish paper, is what is being refered to. Genuine vellum would be wildly expensive, and useing it for pp would be hard (it is tough stuff being made of pounded animal skins and all). Besides sewing through real vellum and then ripping it up would call thundering herds of artists down on you. They would eat all your food, drink all your drink, walk around your house looking at odd bits and bobs while saying things like "powerful, it really moves me", and then steal your genuine vellum and replace it with cheap drafting sheets, like this:

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I generally buy translucent drafting rolls because I have other uses for it. Personally I find that cheap traceing paper works just fine for pp. Then again I have taken to using paper for foundation piecing only when I am doing a single block, or for tricky subunits. So it's def a YMMV thing.

NightMist

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NightMist

Quick tutorial!

Trace your pattern/drawing onto freezer paper rather than paper piecing paper. (Use a fine pen, so that graphite doesn't go all over fabric and thread). Cut your fabric to the right shapes plus about 1/2" all round. Put piece 1 right side up, on the sticky side of the freezer paper, press. Fold back the paper on the line between piece 1 and piece 2. Place piece

2 right sides together on piece 1, align the edges, fold back the paper on the line between pieces 2 and 3 and sew the seam which will be alongside the fold. Just continue that way. At the end, the freezer paper just peels off and can be used again several times.

Hope I've remembered to include the essentials. . In message , Eddie writes

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Patti

Thanks Marcella. I'll have a go on my little piece tomorrow. So far, I had only tried adjacent pieces, nothing in a block. We'll see how it goes. I looked up vellum supplies on a craft site here - it was about 60 cents a sheet!! So, I think you must have something that we don't over here. However, I have plenty of PP paper for the moment, and thereafter I am quite happy with greaseproof paper! I use too much of it to be fancy! . In message , Marcella Peek writes

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Patti

Stumbled across these while browsing this morning -

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Is this the vellum you use?

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Cats

I must be blind...all I could see was a really long article on making tessellations.

At the paper supply store (xpedx for those in the US) they sell reams of UV/ULTRA paper. Reams are 500 sheets of the 17 lb paper for around $30. It's plain white but translucent.

The C&T paper is the same thing but repackaged for them.

Here's a link to a place on-line that shows it.

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marcella

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Marcella Peek

I recently went to business depot / staples here in Canada(don't know if they are in the US or not) and bought a package of newsprint paper sold for packing purposes, it is clean newsprint in large sheets, I can see through it just enough to trace multiple templates (or I use carbon paper if I am really lazy) and it tears off MUCH easier than regular photcopy paper which I found was a bit too heavy if you were not careful.

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JPgirl

OMG Marcella ROFL

Out of curiosity I took a look . . . . . . . . and it would cost me $43 per ream and - get this - $146.74 for shipping, a total of $189.88US or about $260AUS.

I had not seriously considered ordering any from over here, and this definitely confirmed that view. The weight of the paper would be the inhibiting factor.

But thanks for a fun 30min browsing through paper.com

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Cats

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julia sidebottom

What great instructions!

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Boca Jan

Holy Cow!

For that it should come with some diamond earrings.

marcella

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Marcella Peek

ROFL - if it did I might try some!

Shipping paper is always expensive and some places don't have the most economical shipping method as an option.

Ho-Hum!!

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Cats

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