Originally Posted by
Yooper32
Do you mean "foundation" piecing, or "paper" piecing? There is a huge difference in them. You can use just about anything from comic books to deli-paper for foundation piecing. However, paper piecing requires you to print or trace a pattern onto paper, most usually done on your printer, so if you used phone book pages, you are going to have a hard time seeing your pattern lines to sew on.
I'm referring to foundation piecing. The type of piecing where you sew your fabrics onto paper, as in string quilts, etc. sorry if I used the wrong term there.