Question about using pages from telephone book for paper piecing.
07-01-2016, 05:31 AM
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07-01-2016, 05:40 AM
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It all depends on what I'm working on. Fabric foundation for crazy quilts, paper for scrap. I also have leftover tissue paper (white). I have all that stuff but my favorite is the no tear paper piecing from quiltingbee. the freezer paper technique. http://www.quiltnbee.biz/shop/Block-...5-x7562107.htm
07-01-2016, 05:45 AM
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I know this is an old thread, but I am hoping someone will share their thoughts. I want to do a spiderweb strip pieced quilt. I have looked at Bonnie Hunters method and she says to piece on a white square of fabric. Is there some special reason to use paper first? Just to avoid the weight of the backing fabric? I just shudder at the work of tearing all the paper off 
07-01-2016, 10:48 AM
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BellaBoo, doesn't that have a wax coating on it?
I have never used the phone book for just the reason you mention, but know several who do and have never had problems. Bonnie Hunter of quiltville.com uses them all the time! At the school I work in we get a large pack of them every year; most of them end up in recycling. The ones here no longer have residential listings, only business. Most folks don't want them sitting around but would rather look info up on line. Some of them are now smaller than standard sized (8-1/2" x 11"), too.
I used to buy children's drawing pads from the dollar store, but they are too large to put through the printer, so had to be cut down. Now I buy reams of ruled newsprint from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/School-Smart-R...=1&*entries*=0), School Specialty (http://www.store.schoolspecialty.com...06&item=466169) or Staples (http://www.staples.com/Pacon-Ruled-N...product_730131). Sheets of 500 for under $10; it's the paper that primary school children use to learn to write. No problems running through printer; the blue and/or red lines are not distracting enough to interfere with pattern printing, or can be printed on back.
I have never used the phone book for just the reason you mention, but know several who do and have never had problems. Bonnie Hunter of quiltville.com uses them all the time! At the school I work in we get a large pack of them every year; most of them end up in recycling. The ones here no longer have residential listings, only business. Most folks don't want them sitting around but would rather look info up on line. Some of them are now smaller than standard sized (8-1/2" x 11"), too.
I used to buy children's drawing pads from the dollar store, but they are too large to put through the printer, so had to be cut down. Now I buy reams of ruled newsprint from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/School-Smart-R...=1&*entries*=0), School Specialty (http://www.store.schoolspecialty.com...06&item=466169) or Staples (http://www.staples.com/Pacon-Ruled-N...product_730131). Sheets of 500 for under $10; it's the paper that primary school children use to learn to write. No problems running through printer; the blue and/or red lines are not distracting enough to interfere with pattern printing, or can be printed on back.
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