Very interesting reading; I am so glad you ask the question Barb. I am going to be doing the 3rd trail ride with the third book of Laurie Aaron Hird Farmer's Wife Sampler 1930 with the group on QB beginning August 4th. Yes, the majority of the 99 blocks will be paper pieced. Each block is six inches finished, so many tiny pieces of paper left on the inside of the block even if I use Carol Doak's paper packets. I cannot sew too small of a stitch and rip it out, so I steam press each block and use Best Press...no problem removing the paper.
Several of us have done the other two books together, and more are joining us, so it will be fun, doing two blocks a week. Honchey is leading us one more time, and always has helpful hints on the blocks. Others contribute as well, making it a merry time together. Each doing it their way, with whatever scraps they have in their stash...e.i., batiks, reproduction, civil war scraps.