Haha, you got a lot of answers here, I guess you don't really need mine....I wouldn't worry about the ink from the phone book. It doesn't rub off the way ink rubs off newsprint...and the ink is against the wrong side of the fabric so it won't have a lot of contact with the visible fabric anyhow. Bonnie Hunter is pretty much the queen of scraps in the quilting world and she uses phone book paper.