Clover mini iron

You might want to think first about a tailor's board, which allows your regular iron to get into very teeny spots. :-)

Dianne

anne wrote:

I love my little Clover mini iron - I love doing applique and find it great for that type of project. An ordinary iron works better for piecing I find.

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ ..

Dianne Lewandowski said

Being fine sewing ignorant, I had to google to find out what the heck a tailor's board was. Although there were quite a few mentions of its use, the online store for the only place that I found that had it for sale was broken. So armed with a 40% off coupon, I bought one at Joann's. It's still in the wrapper as I've been struggling to complete the EGA seminar piece.

The design isn't all that difficult but working the laid filling on 24 count congress cloth is a challenge even with a magnifier I went to bed disgusted with myself, in part for being so 'stupid' doing the simple pattern, but mostly because at the seminar I bought several blackwork books and charts that should be worked on high count even weave. I may have to break a long standing rule of mine of working on one piece until it's finished and alternate the fine work with easy for me, free style, surface embroidery so I'm not continually frustrated.

I constantly use crewel work as my 'relaxing' work - I think it is a good plan to have at least a couple of things on the go, I have definite moods when I feel like tackling something challenging and when I just want to be lazy, perhaps watch Corrie and have some crewel work in hand because I can't watch television without anything else to do!

A tailor's board, if you get the three-sided one, is great for corners (even on small, ornament sized pieces), rounded edges, allowing those seams to be turned effortlessly.

I remember when I was introduced to one and it was love at first sight. :-)

It's not a question of being "stupid". One's mind tends to direct us in the way it needs to go. :-)

Although I have more than one project in the works at the moment, I can't seem to get in the mood to work on anything. It's all just sitting in a corner. Everything just seems too hard. So, I'm going with the flow. Dianne