Originally Posted by
sewbizgirl
I use the old phone book pages, but am never happy with how the stitches look once you tear the paper off. The line of stitching looks baggy after the tear (bad tension).
I've always attributed that to how hard you have to work to get the pages to tear. This is why I switched to vellum paper. Once it's sewn and pressed, it becomes rather brittle and tears quite easily, no pulling on the stitches. It really doesn't even tear, more like falls apart.