On the subject of irons

Sunbeam with the 12 foot cord, auto turn off (thank goodness in my house) and $25 at Costco.

Love it.

And I got a little $8 travel iron at my quilt shop last week for my birthday. Haven't tried it yet but may make my blasted braid quilt go faster, so I don't have to walk down the house to the room with the concrete floor to use my iron after each set gets sewn on.

Why oh why did I decide to to 10 sets of 40 fabrics in my braids?

Oh right, I'm insane.

Jenn

I bought one for taking to lessons, and I really like it! It gets nice and hot, and it works better than the travel iron I used to have. :)

I started ironing about 50 years ago for my mother, and until 3 years ago, still used that same iron. It never gave me an ounce of trouble. It got very hot and it never leaked. It died after about one year of quilting. I was really disappointed. My new iron feels like a piece of junk compared to my mother's and it leaks hot water. I burned my thigh ironing in shorts and I get paranoid if my QIs hang out under the ironing board while ironing. I don't want them to get burned by the dripping hot water.

I recently replaced my mother's ironing board and cover. Her's had a silver metallic looking cover that after so many years was getting thin, but it was still in decent shape. I stupidly threw it out and replaced it with a new one from Sears. The new cover lasted me all of 6 months and now has two large holes in it. It's as if the material just fried up from the heat. I have patched it with teddy bear material and Steam a Seam 2, which actually worked quite well. It just seems that everything is made to be disposable.

Denise