KarynneStorm

Has anyone ever taken a completed quilt top to the dry cleaner to be pressed? My uncle owns one out of town, but he was telling me that he would gladly press my quilt tops with his big industrial steam press, but I don't want to be shipping them. I know he understands how to press them, my question is would it be something I could probably get a local guy to understand and do?

Anyone tried it?

Lori S

That would depend on how you like your seams pressed. Those big pressing machines don't fuss with any seams, however they happen to get placed or lay on the bed of the press is how they will get pressed.

toverly

I wouldn't risk it. If you are talking about taking just the top, not the quilt. There is no way, they would take the time to do it correct. I think the best bet is to press and starch as you go. That way, the top is reasonably flat when you sandwich them together.

joyce888

I would be so afraid to risk it. This is nothing against your relative but I worked at a dry cleaners as a teen. The floors are not the cleanest, the pressing irons have a build up of starch and you run the risk of unwanted creases.

Doggramma

I wouldn't do it either

Tartan

​I press as I construct my top so there is minimal pressing when it is completed.

Prism99

I wouldn't do it. Home pressing is fine for quilt tops; they really don't need anything more than that.

Onebyone

Seems the shipping after pressing would defeat the purpose unless rolled and shipped in a tube.

ManiacQuilter2

I wouldn't either. I do as Tartan mention, pressing as I construct the top. There are smaller presses that are available to buy. EB used one when she demo setting applique pieces that had fusible interfacing on the back of the appliques.

KarynneStorm

Thanks for the thoughts. I wasn't thinking of sending it to my Uncle, because shipping it after pressing is just silly. But I thought I would ask if anyone thought it was a good idea. My aunt quilts so he knows how to treat it and she loves how it turns out. Sigh, pressing is the most tedious part for me. I don't have space to keep a pressing station set up so every time I want to I have to set up and take down. So pressing as I go is not an option.

Thanks again for all the thoughts and you are all right, I don't know my cleaner here and he doesn't know quilts.