Jingle

I have made strips sewing six strip together and cutting with a triangle ruler. Not stretchy at all.

If I want a larger scrappy quilt I follow Sewbiz or Ditter 43 in tutorial section for quilt as you go. Easy .

quiltingshorttimer

I rarely use a foundation when making string quilts. If I'm going to be cutting my string sets on the diagonal I may use a foundation due to bias. But not when they are lined up on the vertical or horizontal. Depends on the pattern frankly.

FoggyButFocused

Looks like a really fun quilt! I am just throwing this idea out. Would you get the same effect if you made the strip squares and then used the quarter square triangle techniqe to sew two squares together? I am thinking this might be a way to avoid the bias altogether. Spruce Crafts has a nice tutorial. I would post the link, but I am not sure that it is allowed.

I hate working with triangles. I think they get stretched out when I iron because I drag the iron instead of just placing it on the block.

Have a great day!

dmo

I use telephone book pages cut into squares. works for me.

cashs_mom

Ginger, I really like that quilt. Its going to be going up on the wall in my sewing room for future reference.

froggyinNewMexco

I love string quilts and have made a jillion, but only one without a muslin foundation. The one without the foundation was really distorted and unstable. Muslin makes the quilt a little heavier. I've tried paper foundation, but can't get the size squares I want unless I go to the office supply to have the right weight paper cut. I'll start looking for some of the products you kind folks have mentioned.

dorismae904

I like using muslin for the foundation. Tried paper and didn't care for tearing the paper off although using dissolving interfacing sounds interesting. The muslin backing does add some weight to the quilt but I think it gives the quilt more substance.

Watson

GingerK, I got it at Fabricland when it was on sale about 3 years ago. Bought quite a few metres. Not sure if they still have it.

Wow...just looked it up and it's pretty expensive. If you can order from the US it's cheaper.

Watson

Synnove

I have a closely-guarded stash of old phone books that I use for foundations in string quilts. The pages are easily cut to size with a rotary cutter and an old blade. The paper gives stability to the strings, prevents distortion, and there is no heavy foundation to deal with once the paper is removed. I love this method and have always been pleased with the results, as the blocks are very accurate and uniform.

sewingpup

I have tried the official paper piecing paper, newsprint, those cheap kids tablets for drawing and practicing writing, typing paper, and phone books. Gotta say, the typing was the worse to rip off and by far, and I mean by far, the cheapest, easiest to rip off and to cut to desired size was the old phone book pages. Now, it can be diffiuclt to find the phone books with the bigger pages or even any old phone book. If you can get your hands on one, go for it. Oh, and the "aged" phone books work even better.