Stringing along

Polly, one day I *will* try the 'Carol Doak Paper' but I have only ever seen it for sale at one online/ebay shop here for $18.99 a packet w/o postage.

Until I find some alot cheaper I will manage with hand tracing on to kitchen paper, or If I am really lazy just computer paper ever if it is harder to remove :-(

Dee in Oz

polly esther wrote:

Dee, if you hate pulling the paper out you can always use light weight sew-in interfacing. Spotlight has 10m rolls for about $7-$8 a roll. Tracing is a bit harder as you have to stick the corners of the interfacing down to hold it in place to draw, but you don't have to take it out after sewing.

Or if you are on good terms with someone at the local paper, ask for some newsprint off-cuts. They tear out easily.

Well, you can perhaps diminish the denim collection a little bit. Assuming that you're saving worn jeans for a one day quilt, you could hack out something like 6" squares from them and toss the rest. I see suggestions that it's quite trendy to leave in a block or two with a zipper, label or pocket. You could do that but it sounds rather uncomfortable to me. Polly

"Taria" wrote> Why is it that any project that should diminish your

Dee, I don't have Carol Doak's paper, but I have a pack of another brand (That Patchwork Place maybe). If you email me your address, I can send you a few sheets to try it.

-Lynn

Dee > Polly, one day I *will* try the 'Carol Doak Paper' but I have only ever

WELCOME Carol!! Thanks for being so ready to make posts easier to read. The only rule you 'really' need to know: Send a pound or two of chocolate to the Official Chocolate Tasting Office, conveniently located here in my Palace in Virginia, USA. I will taste test if for you and report via E-Mail. No need to thank me! It is my selfless volunteer service to the RCTQ Community. ;)

PAT, Official Chocolate Taster or RCTQ AND Queen of Everyth> Thanks for the Australian welcome, as well as others. I have to

Dee, contact Carol about buying directly from her.

Howdy!

I string-piece blocks without using a foundation, fabric or paper. So far, this works just fine. None of my String Quilts have come to any harm once they've been quilted. ;-)

Cheers! Ragmop/Sandy

Worn out?...BAH, surely you meant non-fitting ?...it's all the **** chocolate !!!!

Alis> I've done a bunch of picnic quilts and a have couple of boxes

The string block pattern I'm playing with is supposed to end up with octagonal shapes in a kaleidescope look. That's going rather well but I don't know if it would work okay without the base or if they would all get their noses out of joint if I didn't. Also, the instructions say to leave all of the paper in until the entire quilt top is completely together. I'm not sure that's a good idea. It could be that the paper is going to be impossible to remove where the blocks intersect . Then I'll have my nose out of joint too. If I turn up really cranky in a few hours, you will know. Polly

"Sandy Ellison"wrote> Howdy!

I suspect this will be too late for you, for this project, Polly; but if you are planning another one (or anyone else who might be going to do something like this), I have found that, when you are going to have to join foundation paper pieced sections, it is far easier to make the patterns *without* seam allowances. So, you just have the centres on paper; the fabric overflows the edges of course, and you trim with the quarter inch line of your ruler on the edge of the paper. This means that you have a seam allowance with no paper. The strips are still kept in shape, and the paper does not get tangled in seam intersections. When doing this I suggest pinning within the fabric seam allowance only

- match your seams (if you are doing that), but insert the pin and have it come out again before the paper starts. This avoids a lot of distortion.

(have a small pair of tweezers handy, if you do have paper in the seam intersections). . In message , polly esther writes

When I am joining FPP blocks, I remove the paper from the seam allowances after the seam is sewn but before adding more blocks. This avoids some of the hassle of taking the paper out where the seams intersect.

Julia > The string block pattern I'm playing with is supposed to end up with

Oh good grief, Pat. I'm afraid I'm seeing your post much to late to warn you. Unless you sweep and mop your ceilings every day, you really should cover your beloved SMs with a sheet or drop cloth while there are 'issues' going on overhead. A hefty chunk of ceiling fell in on a friend of mine's SM and poured sheetrock powder in. To add to the insult, the rest of her sewing room was coated in whatever dust and such that had been gathering on her ceiling for years. Put the chocolate down for just a few minutes and protect your tools. Polly

"Pat in Virginia" signed > PS: Right now the roofers are making

And to our Pat on her Hill, you are quite right and I used to know that paper piecing without paper seam allowances just works much better for me. Your reminder's come too late but I expect this quilt will help me remember for a long, long time. Polly

Mary, even if I was willing to use my CC overseas it would cost be $Au29.47 to get a packet of her paper, not some thing I can afford.

Dee in Oz

maryd wrote:

Never thought of interfacing Cheryl, I was keeping that for the Manx quilt. Our laocal paper in printed in Hamilton so don't know what they would have here. Will have to try some 'deli' paper as that sould give me an idea of what newsprint would be like. If I like it I could chase some up then.

Thanks Dee in Oz

CATS wrote:

Oh Polly, could you please put on on your Santa list a digital camera? Oh how I would so LOVE to see your work. You write about all these wonderful and beautiful quilts you make for these precious little souls and I never get to see one. How fortunate they are! Thank you.