I have to correct Murphy1 stating the authors of Material Obsession 2 are from England. Sarah Fielke is definitely an Aussie girl and living here. I watched a great DVD with her doing the quilts from her books, she has a great color sense, and the quilts are so easy, great for all quilters. The DVD was a promotion for a Aussie magazine, called Quilters Companion they put out a DVD with each magazine, promoting a quilter or technique, I have learnt and "met" so many teachers this way, without having to go and do classes. My side of Australia, the west, is tooo far away for overseas, and Aussies teachers come and teach, so we do miss out on a lot, and if someone does come like we had Kaffee Fassett
do a trunk show, I had to book 6months ahead to make sure I did not miss out, it was great.

I use the newsprint pads at the Dollar Store. There are 50 -100 pages and it is all for $1.00 Can't beat that.

that is a great price. i never see prices like that around here. that's much better than copy paper on sale and much easier to tear off. i wonder if that's a stock item. is that the name of the store? Dollar Store? or is it a dollar store?

I use regular copy paper (usually the cheapest I can buy) and short stitches. Using a spray bottle of water, dampen the paper when you are ready to remove the paper. It comes off easily when wet! I would think that dampening would help with any kind of paper.

good luck finding the paper you need in the UK..perhaps just plain newspaper would be ok...that is why my great grand mother used when she made the spider web quilt I now own!

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[QUOTE=DawnFurlong;4904524]I have to ask - what is the folding method?[/QUOTE

Here is the link for the folding freezer paper method. The only way I do my PP.I attach both the top and bottom ofthe freezer paper on a sheet of copy paper by pressing with hot iron ( about 1/4 of an inch is wide enough) so it will go through the printer.


http://classicquilter.typepad.com/cl...r-piecing.html

I found I had a tablet of typing paper which was thinner, so used it on my last block and it worked really good. Cheap way to go.

I just had a brain fart. I mean a light bulb turned on when I read the post about using newspapers or phone books for the paper piecing. I worked for U-Haul before I became disabled and they sell wrapping paper. It is made out of newsprint, paper that is used for newspapers but does not have ink on it. It's clean white paper. Although, you would have to cut it down as it is the size of a newspaper and the best part is that you would not have to worry about ink getting on your fabric allowing you to use light colors. They sell this in a ten pound box for approximately nine bucks, this was the price a couple of years ago. Just an idea.

I have never tried doing it this way. Thanks for the link. Saved this as a PDF file. Will try someday. Thanks for sharing. BrendaK

Thanks Guys, that has given me a lot to think about.

Oh that is beautiful!!! Now makes me want to do one, and I have lots of ufo's I need to get to first

I've used vellum, tracing paper, tissue paper, and the paper bakeries use to wrap doughnuts and other items. All work well for me.

The phone book pages are used for foundation piecing. No pattern needed to be printed for that. I think many beginner paper piecers get the techniques confused. Paper piecing, Foundation piecing and English paper piecing are very different but all involve using paper. I don't think the original poster means to paper piece a spider web, foundation piecing is the easiest way to make those.

See my earlier post - you can get clean newsprint directly from the newspapers for free.

Now I am confused. What is the difference between paper piecing and foundation piecing and when do you use each technique?

In a nutshell, paper piecing is when you use a layer of paper to stabilize the blocks, and you remove the paper when you're done. Foundation piecing is using a layer of fabric (such as muslin) to stabilize the blocks, you stitch the patches directly on it, and it is left in the quilt permanently.

Great explanation, thanks!

Great question about paper versus foundation piecing! I had wondered the same. Great explanation too! I am wondering, are there different circumstances that dictate picking one over the other? Or is it just personal preference?

Check with you local newspaper. They cannot use partial rolls of paper for a run and will sell them for a few dollars...like one or two dollars. You get many many yards of newsprint, great for kids drawing paper or paper piecing. How ever if your newspaper is over a week old the ink is dry and will not smear. Or you can iron it and the heat will dry the ink.

When doing a spider web you don't need to see a template as once you cut the kite piece for the middle and stick it down the rest is just a sew flip sew flip and so on until you get to the corner. Trim the overlapping pieces off and you are done...don't make it harder than you need to

I have only done paper piecing, I have not done any foundation piecing, so I cannot answer specifically, but I would think one consideration would be adding weight/bulk to the quilt with foundation piecing.