When I sew onto paper I leave it on until the blocks are all sewed together. Like someone already said, if you use scraps they're not always on grain and have a tendency to stretch. If left together until all blocks/strips are sewn together you have less chance of getting wonky blocks. I use an orange stick or one end of my purple thang to run down seams before tearing off paper. When you use a shorter stitch the paper is like perforated paper. If little bits remain, I just leave 'em. They can't be seen after sandwiched and quilted.

Great idea. I think this would be an interesting binding.

I run a tracing wheel down the seams to perforate the paper and easily remove it.

I was shown how to piece to cash register tape only recently. I need to watch how it is done again before I pull out the old rolls of register tape. It looks like this method will be great for boarders.

I use a wet Qtip dipped in water. Swipe down the stitching line on the paper side and after a minute or so the paper under the seam will be soggy and pull apart. Generally when I paper piece, as I sew all the blocks tog I remove the paper from the seams. Then I remove the paper. from the blocks. I start at one side of the block and by the time I get the whole block done with the Qtip, the paper around the first seams are ready to be ripped off.

Use a smaller than usual stitch length when piecing. I remove paper as soon as possible because I feel the sections don't piece together as accurately with it remaining. Crease the stitching line before trying to remove paper. I run my fingernails over the crease and also make good use of sharp tweezers in getting the little bits out. (I actually hate the tedium of removing the paper but realize that paper piecing is the best way to make certain things like pineapple blocks)

I save my used dryer sheets for this. The ones that come out of the dryer are added to the next load of wash, so they have been washed two or three times to help reduce the fragrance before using. After sewing them together I can then cut them to size. Works for me.

I did that once and only once. I’m willing to try anything once to see how it goes. Not a fan.

Be careful using paper that has "printing ink" on it. I have been hesitant to use phonebook paper after a bad experience. Some of the ink on this thin newspaper type of paper rubbed off onto the fabric. This is noticeable on light colors and can be difficult to get out. Before using rub a soft white tissue over the paper to check if the ink will come off.

That is cool! Who'da thought? I'm gonna have to try that on a small project. Congrats on your blue ribbon too.

Surely the quilting world has come up with wash away paper by now.

I know this is an old thread but it is fascinating to me because when I first came to these forums a couple of years ago, I found a similar thread which I've had bookmarked ever since.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f...s-t211152.html

I started quilting in the 70s before rotary cutters and stuff and I've seen and done a lot of things, but never anything like this. So I kept my eyes open and I found a bag of adding machine tape at the goodwill and picked it up. Now, I've worked in offices and can recognize supplies, so I made sure I got something super basic and not the type that was heat activated or anything.

Just recently I had the opportunity to use this in an actual project. I'm in the circulating round robin and I made "ribbons" for my center using some tiny little fan blade sized scraps that were meant to be hand pieced into baskets. The other ladies have made my humble start into a glorious project. I'm so impressed with all of them.

Paper piecing is not one of my stronger skills, but I could do this on the tape just fine, especially when I decided I was ok with a certain amount of skewing, otherwise I would have trimmed my scraps down to have a flat edge and made the sewing more precise. The adding machine paper came off like it was never there! I did a light mist on the back of the paper and a popsicle stick and it all came out with nothing sticking in my stitches (which yes, I did make quite small).

Final Grade: Passing -- could and would do again. Think it would make wonderful sashing among other things.

Tried to edit out the middle picture, it was a process shot :)

I sew on the paper register tape a lot for scrap sashings. I sew 1/8 stay stitch down each inside of the paper edge so the stitches don't tear out when I remove the paper and I remove the paper before sewing the strips to the quilt. I score it down the middle with a tracing wheel and pull it away. If bits stay then they stay.