Favorite Tip or Helpful Hint
08-09-2010, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by JNCT14
My favorite tip was the directions for making a large top for my ironing board. WOW. It is SO much easier to iron big pieces of fabric and binding strips......and I had it together in 3 hours. Easy, cheap and highly effective. My kind of tip..............
08-09-2010, 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Crickett Sweet
I just spent a week at Quilting By The Lake in class with Anita Grossman Solomon - great class and great time. My question is "Where the heck do I find liquid starch?" I checked my two local grocery chains, Walmart and Target and can't find it anywhere. Checked on line and they want a ridiculous price for it and shipping on top of that?
08-09-2010, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by lorniki
Originally Posted by JNCT14
My favorite tip was the directions for making a large top for my ironing board. WOW. It is SO much easier to iron big pieces of fabric and binding strips......and I had it together in 3 hours. Easy, cheap and highly effective. My kind of tip..............
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57168-1.htm
08-09-2010, 07:10 AM
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You have all reminded me - I remember my mother had a sprinkling bottle next to the iron, filled with water. It was teal colored, and the water came out in perfect sprinkle-sized drops for ironing. The top screwed on and off for filling. I'm going to look on ebay to see if such a thing is around anymore. I may have to make my own - salad dressing bottle and poke holes in the top? 2 liter soda bottle with holes poked in the top? Hmm, I will get creative.
08-09-2010, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Twilliebee
Originally Posted by Crickett Sweet
I just spent a week at Quilting By The Lake in class with Anita Grossman Solomon - great class and great time. My question is "Where the heck do I find liquid starch?" I checked my two local grocery chains, Walmart and Target and can't find it anywhere. Checked on line and they want a ridiculous price for it and shipping on top of that?
http://www.lehmans.com/store/Home_Go...erid=shopzilla
08-09-2010, 07:41 AM
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The original hint reminded me of my mother. She hated to iron--and this was back when everything we wore had to be ironed. She'd dampen the clothes, roll each item up, put it in a laundry bag, and throw it in the freezer. When she wanted something to wear from the bag, she'd take it out to thaw enough to unroll it and iron it then. Sometimes she had more laundry in the freezer than food!
08-09-2010, 07:47 AM
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For liquid starch or powdered starch, try a small-town home-owned grocery store--esp. one in a rural area. Country people still use it, so the stores stock it. I live in a small town and it's always available.
Laundries use it too, so you might check to see if a laundry in your area will sell you some. You'll probably have to take your own jar along when you go to ask.
Laundries use it too, so you might check to see if a laundry in your area will sell you some. You'll probably have to take your own jar along when you go to ask.
08-09-2010, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by hobo2000
When I was a kid back in the 40's, my grandmother would sprinkle the clothes and roll them tightly. If she couldn't
get to the ironing the next morning she would store them in an old refrigerator in the basement until she could get around to ironing.
get to the ironing the next morning she would store them in an old refrigerator in the basement until she could get around to ironing.
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