Cari-in-Oly

Another vote here for Magic Sizing. It's the cheapest thing out there and does the job. If I need the fabric to be stiffer, which I rarely do, I just give it a second spray after ironing the first one dry. I refuse to pay the cost of Best Press, tried it once just to see what all the gushing was about and went right back to Magic Sizing.

Cari

Onebyone

Spray the fabric on the back side to not have any flakes or residue on the front. Sharon Schamber starches her fabric twice. Of course she wins every quilt show she enters so she must know something. LOL

quiltingcandy

I like the spray starch too - I used the sizing for a while but it didn't seem to give it enough stiffness. And I also found when my spray starch scorched it was because the iron was too hot or my iron was dirty. So now I iron with a used dryer sheet on my ironing board and I spray the dryer sheet with water and run my iron over it between shirts or pieces of fabric. My favorite is also Faultless Professional - which is not always available. I have been known to buy the one at the Dollar Tree too. And like Onebyone - I will use it on the back of the fabric so it won't flake on the front.

I need to try some of the liquid starch someday but then I need to buy a special sprayer and not sure if it's worth it. I don't go thru is enough. Does it spoil?

MarionsQuilts

HMMM i priced best press ... WOW ... that's expensive, and I'm not someone to generally balk at the price of something if I really need it. I might buy a small one to test it out and see if I like it.

When I am using starch I want my fabric super stiff and I can get that with easy off LOL

Thanks for the input all!

PamelaOry

What is the big deal about best press? I would think the stiffer the better in quilting...?

Onebyone

Why do you need a special sprayer for the liquid starch? Any spray bottle will work. I like the mister bottles for a fine mist with no big drops. I refilled a Fabreeze Air Freshner bottle that mists with starch. You can spray starch from a can into a mister bottle.

lzeider

Explain how you get Magic sizing into a spray bottle. Thank you

SusieQOH

For me it's not a big deal- just a big jug that I'm working on. I don't like it and don't recommend it.

Jane Quilter

I buy the half gallon of staflo starch from walmart or on line, dilute it to 50% or 25% , pour it in a mister and spritz my fabric. To get fabric super stiff is to soak fabric in a bowl of diluted starch, air dry, then press. This technique helps cutting accuracy, and I can make perfect points in block assembly. but all must be washed out after assembly.

Prism99

Sta-Flo lasts forever as long as you don’t dilute it. It contains a preservative. I think once you add water, though, it may eventually get moldy.