Ok, Ladies and Gents , see if you know what this is for and what it is.
10-01-2010, 06:54 PM
#51
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well, i was going to say something like an old fashioned toaster, until I realized it was wooden AND you said two ppl got it right.
No one said anything about a toaster, lol...but it would have went well with the cheese slices, lol!
thank goodness it's not a ra-...wait a minute. You haven't said what it is and what it isn't. Oh no...
BUT, only one person said that. phew!
I was about to skeedaddle and quick! :wink:
No one said anything about a toaster, lol...but it would have went well with the cheese slices, lol!
thank goodness it's not a ra-...wait a minute. You haven't said what it is and what it isn't. Oh no...
BUT, only one person said that. phew!
I was about to skeedaddle and quick! :wink:
10-01-2010, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ssnare
Originally Posted by quilt addict
Now I want to see you make some fabric with it. I love to figure out these things.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
:lol:
10-01-2010, 10:04 PM
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Do you know what a "sad iron" looks like? Do you know why it was called a "sad iron"?[/quote]
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yeah, I know what a sad iron was, and it was with great joy that we got electricity and could have a plug in iron. I still have one of the first ones, rectangle it is, haven't had the nerve to plug it in, it's so old.
The sad irons were great blocks of metal that you stuck on a wood stove and let them get hot, then you put a curved handle in a hole in them, rubbed them over a wet cloth to get smoke dust off them and then ironed like mad till it cooled off. Then it went back on the stove and you stuck the handle in the spare and did the same thing with it. The sad part of it was the muscles needed to lift and use that thing, and at that time every darn piece of fabric in the house had to be ironed!~ From Grandpa's heavy pants and shirts to sheets and pillowcases to even my ankle socks and panties and feed sack princess slips and dresses.
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yeah, I know what a sad iron was, and it was with great joy that we got electricity and could have a plug in iron. I still have one of the first ones, rectangle it is, haven't had the nerve to plug it in, it's so old.
The sad irons were great blocks of metal that you stuck on a wood stove and let them get hot, then you put a curved handle in a hole in them, rubbed them over a wet cloth to get smoke dust off them and then ironed like mad till it cooled off. Then it went back on the stove and you stuck the handle in the spare and did the same thing with it. The sad part of it was the muscles needed to lift and use that thing, and at that time every darn piece of fabric in the house had to be ironed!~ From Grandpa's heavy pants and shirts to sheets and pillowcases to even my ankle socks and panties and feed sack princess slips and dresses.
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