retrogirl02

OOh, such good tips. I have my stash separated and in open containers or baskets (whatever I had lying around), neatly folded. Some of the containers are plastic but I thought they'd be OK since I didn't put a lid on them.
I have already grabbed some fabric to use this morning & took just a sec for the iron to get the folds out...plus I've already gotton rid of those annoying clumps of string Yea!! and got straight to marking and cutting. It's nice.

Elizabeth A.

Loretta, I read that if you mail a quilt you should put it in a plastic bag, and then when it gets where it's going it should be promptly removed, mostly to prevent it from being damaged by water, etc. was that wrong? I loved your idea from another thread, about making a pillow case to match to store the quilt in.

zyxquilts

I don't usually keep water in my iron, so I have a spritzer bottle on stand-by all the time!
Makes sense to me that a heavy iron would take less pushing effort to get the wrinkles out. :D

Andie

I use steam all the time and have been quilting 30yrs and have no problem , I don't push the facric around like when ironing and am now lazy and do't pre wash anything just take a chance. Most quilts don't need washin g just airing on the clothesline which are now okay in Ontario LOL Happy Quilting

retrogirl02

Thanks for your input. I'm trying not to steam much, but will play around with the steam on the next project----deadlines are keeping me from getting carried away with experiments right now :D

Is everyone using 100% cotton the majority of the time? I have a lady coming to pick up some "other" fabric today that I inherited and she just sent me an email to say that she'll use it in her quilting.