Originally Posted by Up North
I am in the process of learning to PP "Thank You Quilt "moms" I hate the mess it makes from all the little pieces and I hate picking out all that paper but the blocks are beautiful when they are done, So I have to say I have a love hate relationship with it. I am currently looking for something for paper that is easy to pick out- probably no such thing, I used June Taylor and is is like interfacing I have some Carol Doaks that is like newsprint. It didn't help my block had 20 units to it!
My first attempt at paper piecing was doing a new York Beauty block. The first square I did I used computer paper which was horrible to take out. Then I read somewhere, that using really cheap doodle paper (like newsprint) from the dollar store was the way to go, and it made a huge amount of difference. I had scanned the pattern to my computer, since I had to resize it, and I printed it right onto the newsprint, and it worked just beautifully.
I would do it again in a minute.
By the way, I have included a photo of my paperpieced centre (new york beauties) for a round robin quilt. It's on it's third round now, so I'm curious to see what's been added.......