I bought paper sheets from Missouri Star Quilt Company specifically to make string quilts. Haven't tried it yet but I have used the layer cake sheets that come in a tablet and that is fun to do. You get accurate seams and tear off the paper when blocks are finished so hopefully the paper sheets I bought will do the same thing. If you are using muslin and then batting and backing that really seems to be a very heavy quilt. What if you left the batting out?