Thank you for this link.

I still occasionally use it but not as much as I used to. Sometimes I just like to sit down & play around with different blocks or designs. It is just fun to do.

You don't?

I use graph paper all of the time. If I see a block I want to make and it is not the size I want-the graph paper comes out and I just draw it up to my desired size so you are definitely not the only person to use graph paper.

I buy it by the roll. 42" wide by 20 Yds. The type comes in various widths in roll and sheets in sizes larger than letter size. I also get the gridded desk pads which are about 18"x24". I sometime use easel chart pads gridded in 1/2" and inch if I don't want precision.

Quilt30, where do you get the rolls? The largest I have found is desk blotter size at Office Depot or Staples. I use graph paper to sketch ideas, when I want to change color, or figure just how much of a certain fabric I will need in my designs. I also buy the pads or "engineering books" we used to call them - graph on one side of the page, lined on the other. I've got 3 packs of color pencils floating around the house too.

It is usually available at stores that have drafting supplies. It is made primarily for draftsmen. The most popular brand is "Clearprint. Google and you will find a source. On line is usually the best price.

No, I use it all the time.

I use graph paper all the time to draw out quilts.

Look under: drafting vellum

It is more eraser friendly than regular paper.

I use it all the time! It may be old fashioned but it works great and you get to think some while you are doing it (I always do it in pencil - my thoughts sometimes change mid process!)

I use it all the time. I don't buy patterns but see quilts I like and work the sizes and measurements out on graph paper. Of course, they aren't usually terribly complicated.

Just read some other replies. I assumed Bear meant graph paper on a pad....little squares. If she means something else, then no, I don't use it.

I have EQ7, but still use graph paper and colored paper to design quilts. There are some quilts that I can't find out how to make with EQ7 so I draw out the blocks, but use the graph paper to design the quilts.

I use it. It gives me the correct measurements when I draw something out.

Carbon paper? Haven't heard of that for a looooong time. But I have some from my teaching days. Just haven't thrown it out yet. Every once in a while, that's just what I want.

And I don't think EQ7 could do what I do with graph paper. For the Square Family Reunion I made small paper squares for the four different sizes. Played around with them a while, then drew them onto graph paper. I didn't want any seams to go all the way across the quilt in any direction. After I had about 2/3 of the quilt sewn together using the graph paper as a guide, I could finish it on my own. It was great fun.

nope..........

I bought a new pack the other day!

I started this thread with only the thought of 1/4 or 1/8 inch gridded paper on "regular sized" (which I think varies from country to country) paper.

As this thread has progressed, I think I would like it to mean anything printed with a regular pattern (triangles, squares, hexagons, etc.) that we still use to design with that requires a pencil (or pen).

There are some great "graph papers" available from several sites.

This is what I use....has graph paper on the top half of the page, college ruled lines on the bottom half. All my projects and sketches are in it. Dont dispair Bearpawquilter...it is at amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Mead-Composit...BRV9RHFNHTDJGP

No, I use it regularly

inkjets start at about $40 and go up. Here is one on amazon with free shipping with prime membership for $42. Dont suffer without one.

https://www.amazon.com/Canon-PIXMA-M...nters+for+home

Another user here.

I believe these are actually called "lab notebooks". College bookstores have them, also the larger stationary companies. If you google "lab notebook" you should be able to find more of these. I just bought one yesterday at Goodwill (cost me 10 cents) that had a $9 price tag on it. Only draw back is the grid is 5x5 and I prefer 4x4 (each box is equal to 1/4 inch).

My husband, a math PhD, has graph paper with one inch squares divided into tenths. That's 100 small squares in an inch. The one inch markings are a different color so are easy to see. He has graph paper of lots of other sizes, too.

I still use it. I make designs and cut them out for patterns. I still use my washable markers too!

I use it all the time. I design a quilt on them. Just now finished a jelly roll quilt - 80 8" squares. Worked like a charm. Nice this is you can paper punch it and put it in a note book when you are done - all your information is on it and you can use different colored markers to design the pattern.

I have two sides yet to bind and then it is done. Kinda glad it's done, but I bond with the quilts I make and it is almost like giving away a child (I would assume). A picture and a story of my making the quilt with what was going on with the world and in my backyard, new things I have learned - and it is all on a piece of 8-1/2 x 11 graph paper. My paper is old - it is beige and is "softer" than regular paper.

Edie

You are not alone! I use it and down load the graph paper from free websites when I am in the mood to design my quilt. Rarely do I buy a pattern. Put a pencil in my hand, a piece of graph paper, and a calculator and I am happy.

I use it all of the time. Designing, planning, resizing...you name it.

Someone posted here a site to down load graph paper in several sizes a year or so ago. Hope you can find it. I use a large lab notebook with 1/4" squares in it. Is there a college bookstore near you to check one out?

I am lost without a few tablets of graph paper. I recently bought an older motor home that I moved into and now I am graphing a new lay out for my tiny space so that I can have a sewing area and some of my fabric. And be able to secure it all if I decide to do some traveling next summer.

lots of lab notebooks on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Vela-B3-B-Com...+notebook+grid

I have 2 tablets of graph paper of different sizes to use or large or small projects that I design. It helps me to know how much fabric I will need to buy to make the item. Couldn't live without it. I quilt to get away from the computer so I like to keep it simple.

I love to paperpiece and have lots of graph paper in diff sizes to graph things out, old school style!

I used it all the time. Start with graph paper, go to Adobe Illustrator, then finally EQ7. I can lay the quilt out in EQ, but can't design a block there!
Walmart carries Graph Composition notebooks, arriving around now. They are the same size as the composition notebooks. Usually they will mark them down at the end of the back-to-school season. Last year my store had them down to $0.75. I bought 2 dozen... They made great gifts for friends.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Norcom-100...-Book/37709181

OH, yea!! I've been retired almost 20 years and I still can't resist the school supplies aisles. Is that crazy?? I usually end up buying a few tablets, especially the black and white marble composition books, and crayons (wink: for my grandkids). I certainly will be on the lookout for one filled with graph paper. When I need more graph paper, I usually google the printable graph papers, either the 1/4-in. or the 1/2-in.

Here's to graph paper! I have EQ7 but don't use it much because there seem to be too many constraints. I've used it to make a paper-piecing pattern from, but when I have a custom thing - like how to size or finish the corners on a pieced row in a medallion quilt, or plan out a pieced backing - I go to graph paper, or just a ruler and plain paper to do the calculations.

Walmart has them out now. 97 cents a book. I bought a case of them to use for quilter gifts during the year and door prize donations to my guild. Also the tear out graph paper in a composition book for $1.97.

Mead, Cambridge business notebooks makes my favorite small note book. 9.5 x 5.3/8w and has yellow paper, normal ruler paper on the front and quad paper on the back in a spiral notebook. I purchased a dozen direct from Mead. I used to find them at Office Max. They are great for tracking projects and planning. I have filled about 4 of them and look back all the time at ideas and projects. I even made a batik cover for it and it sticks easily in my purse.

I use it regularly! My favorite use is resizing blocks, so I have 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 squares to the inch, as well as centimeter square and a couple of triangle and diamond grids. It is also great for copying a block I see in a magazine (or at a show) and might want to try later but don't need the whole magazine.