Nice tutorial, Scissor Queen.
I do strip quilts on old bedsheets or very thin fabric ... never thought to turn them over to cut them ...
a few months ago, someone had a magazine with the same pattern you just taught us, and let me tell you! It was taking the person following that pattern FOREVER to finish one block. Yours is so much easier!
Don't know how big the telephone books are in your areas, but I think they are made on newsprint paper also.
I have heard that in the "old days" they just left the paper inside for added insulation. Of course, they didn't have washing machines to throw a quilt in to wash it ... probably just soaked it down and let the spring breezes dry it ...