Originally Posted by justflyingin
I've already stitched around the edge of the scrappy border. Here are some more pics.
I'm planning on putting it as part of the border on a scrappy quilt made up of scrappy crazy 6.5" squares. The rest of the quilt is done.
If there are not too many bias edges, I would remove the paper before stiching to the quilt BUT, I would mark the edge of the strip fabric every 6.5" first, before removing the paper, so that I could match it up with the squares, in order to keep the shape. I hope that makes sense!
I think you should have omitted the stitching around the edge - You will find it a lot more difficult to remove the paper.
When paper-piecing, I use stitch length 2.0 on my Janome and the paper removes very easily. Sometimes I put a small ruler along the line of stitching before tearing away the paper so that there's not too much 'pull' on the stitching.
I have read that the stitch length can be as small as 1.5 but have never tried this.