Originally Posted by
calicojoan
On the string quilt side, did you piece it to a foundation piece? You have much larger squares without the binding running thru them. I love the looks of that. I am contemplating using a flannel instead of batting since there are so many seams. It might lighten it up a bit, and with that I am guessing I could just use that as my foundation.
Flannel would probably work well as both foundation & batting in one. Good idea; I'll be interested to see how that works for you. It's surprising how much weight is added by the zillions of seams from all that piecing.
I just sewed the string strips onto flimsy paper, pressed and cut to size with an 8.5" square, then removed the paper. Sewed four of them together, with the light sides joined, ending up with 16.5" final size square.