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05-06-2011, 04:16 AM

#71

oatw13

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I steam until the water runs out!

05-06-2011, 04:16 AM

#72

mjsylvstr

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I do both !!!!!!!!

05-06-2011, 04:16 AM

#73

EagarBeez

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steamer, don't use water in iron. I have a sprayer if need be. I also finger press

05-06-2011, 04:22 AM

#74

SandyMac

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I'm for steam.

05-06-2011, 04:28 AM

#75

lillybeck

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I do both. Depends on what I am doing.

05-06-2011, 04:36 AM

#76

misscarol

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I'm a steamer too!

05-06-2011, 04:38 AM

#77

Lori S

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Steam and lots of it!

05-06-2011, 04:40 AM

#78

nannya54

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I use to steam then found I also had to trim more. Now I don't steam and don't trim. The steam distorts the fabric for me. Perhaps I don't know how to iron?

05-06-2011, 04:41 AM

#79

Homespun

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no steam

05-06-2011, 04:49 AM

#80

angelarose

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I've been taught that steaming can distort the fabric, but it was a hard lesson for me to learn. I can see how using steam and moving the iron across the fabric can move the fibers from each other.
I've seen fabric so messed up from "ironing" that the quilt was very much out of whack when it shouldn't have been.

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Originally Posted by CarolinePaj

Hi all,

Eleanor Burns loves to steam those seams, yet her son who also quilts doesn't.... he feels that steam distorts the fabric....

So which way do you fall....

Steam or No Steam!

Hugs