Thread: using paper for scrap quilts?
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Old 06-29-2012, 06:55 AM
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Tartan
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If you go to Bonnie Hunter's site www.quiltville.com and click on her free tutorials, you can see a great example of using paper in her Spiderweb scrap blocks. I am currently working on blocks from that and I used old phone book paper as my base. If you use phone book paper it tears out easily but I don't use steam to press my blocks under construction. I figure the steam may transfer some of the ink to the fabric. Some people use the newsprint blank pads you can get at the $ store to piece on. In this method you basically cut the paper the shape you want your block to end up at. You then sew on your scraps and then flip over the block and trim away all the fabric that extends beyond the paper template. You leave the paper in until the top is all sewn together and pull off the paper before sandwiching the quilt layers. If you use a smaller stitch length when piecing the blocks, the thin paper is easily removed.
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