Way to go Mike! Wanna make a video???

Paper piecing is great - and freezer paper piecing is even better because there is no tearing off at the end. It worked great for the first of these sayings - now back to work!
Best wishes,
Mike

Thanks, Margo. No, you can't find it under vellum. That's why I said it was in the tracing paper section and gave the product number. I don't know why it's not listed as vellum.

I just did a search on the Office Depot site using the stock number that Annis gave us.

I guess you have to know where to look! Do a search for vellum on Office Depot and this doesn't appear. It didn't appear on the shelves of my local office depot. If I run out, I'll try a different store. Thanks, Margo.

Susan, this is what I came up with using a Google search. Annis please let us know if this is not what you are using.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/345854/Office-Depot-Brand-Tracing-Paper-11/

Annis, would you please post a picture of the cover of your paper? Thanks!

I'd like to thank everyone on the list, especially Margo and Annis, for all the helpful tips. I was able to see the diagrams when I logged out and back in and am also delighted to find Snip-it!
I've saved the diagrams and instructions and once I get the paper, I will give it a try.
I am happy that extra fabric may be available for those of us, like me, who want to paper piece, segments and I am disappointed that there are no instructional videos. They would really have helped lower my anxiety level about this first step, and guessing from the number of comments, the anxiety of others.

thanks so much

mbreault wrote:
Have you tried the SNIP IT tool? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

I'd love to give the paper piecing a try but I get a message that I don't have permission to access the templates in Margo's post. I have to say that my heart sunk when I saw the directions for this month. Seems to be a more difficult than necessary way to get the piecing done.
I'll try again later

I have only used a dry iron, but still got shrinkage. Next time I will try preshrinking, but worry it may not feed through the printer as well....more research! In the meantime I just used Carol Doak's paper which worked fine.

Nigella wrote: Do not use any steam with freezer paper. I took a painting class using freezer paper as a stencil and we were told a dry Iron would help prevent shrinkage.

Denise

denise-nh wrote:
I used to use Carol Doak's paper. It works about the same as the vellum but is not as see thru. The last time I used it I was trying to use up the rest of the paper I had and page after page kept getting jammed in the printer and since it does tear away easily it was a lot of work getting all of those itsy bitsy pieces out of my printer over and over again! It may have just been a bad batch. I found that placing an Epson loading support sheet (that comes with matte photo paper) behind it helped and holding the top of the paper until the printer started pulling it through also helped. But I don't have enough patience for that, especially when I'm needing dozens of copies. I've never had any trouble with the Office Depot Vellum feeding through my printers, there's no ink transfer, it doesn't shrink, and it doesn't curl when heated with an iron as much as some vellum does.

Nigella wrote:
I haven't tried this myself, but I've heard somewhere that you should pre-shrink the freezer paper by ironing it on the ironing board before using it. Might be something for you to try next time.

Nancy