zozee

I've made a couple string quilts before. Each time, I would use computer paper as foundation on my (roughly) 6" blocks, with no problems. Each time, I removed the paper before sewing any of them to each other.

However, I recently was watching a show where the guest was doing paper piecing of similar sized blocks (also string) and she said, "And of course you'll want to sew a few of these blocks to each other before removing any of the paper."

Her use of "of course" made it sound routine, common, preferred, smart, and otherwise NOT how I've done it nor heard of being done. Maybe it's ONLY a preference, or maybe there really is a good reason why not to remove paper before sewing blocks together.

I've been mindlessly sewing more string blocks to paper lately, and thought I'd ask about this method before I sew them together this time.

Your thoughts?