I'm with NJ Quilter, I don't use Best Press, although I did try the "homemade Best Press" and I'll keep with my starch, I like the stiffness better and it goes a LOT farther than the "homemade Best Press".
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I'm with NJ Quilter, I don't use Best Press, although I did try the "homemade Best Press" and I'll keep with my starch, I like the stiffness better and it goes a LOT farther than the "homemade Best Press".
Go to the local dollar store and look for empty sprayers and find one that does not hurt to operate. Pour your spray starch into the new bottle. Please use a permanent marker in big letters to label it so now accidents with it later. ( don't want DD using it as hair spray....lol!) you can also buy empty sprayers at the beauty department at Walmart to use for sraying water on yourself in the summer. Smaller is easier on your hands. Refilling is easy. I do this with the starch I mix myself.
If you always do, what you have always done, The results never change. Change is the wings you give yourself.
Have you thought of soaking a towel or dish towel in starch and wrapping it around several fabric pieces until they absorb it? I have done this before with fat quarters when I couldn't get a spray bottle to work well. Less over-spray too.
Are you spraying each fat quarter separately? If so put them all in one place floor for me and press and spray all over. I find after ops on both hands easier than having to keep pressing in short bursts . Must look for the garden spray with pump action.,never seen a small one.
Finished is better than a UFO
I have a collection of inexpensive trigger type spray bottles, about $1.50, found in supermarkets, hardware and
el-cheapo stores - for use for anything from starch to weedkiller. (labelled, naturally) Also use a powdered starch with water as purchased aerosols cost too much over time.
Thanks to all of you for replying. I headed over to Wallmart and got a pump trigger spray bottle. Holds about 2 cups of starch. Tried it out today. Much better than what I had been using.
This device attaches to the spray starch and sizing cans. It cost about 7 bucks- the cheaper ones do not work as easily. This thing makes it really easy to spray.
I put a top like this on the Terial Magic and go to town!Originally Posted by sewnsewsue
This device attaches to the spray starch and sizing cans. It cost about 7 bucks- the cheaper ones do not work as easily. This thing makes it really easy to spray.
Debbie
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If I have a large amount of fabric to starch, I go ahead and mix up the sta-flo in the sink or bowl and wet the fabric all the way down. I wring out what liquid I can and then let the fabric set so it soaks all the way into the fibers (at least 15 minutes). If it drys out that is fine too as a little spritz of water from the iron and it's good to go.
I might be showing my age but I can remember my Mom wetting the pillowcases and handkerchiefs and rolling them up then putting them into the frig so they didn't mildew. We'd pull them out and iron a few at a time over the day until it was time to start all over. I also remember getting upset with my StepDad and spraying each "fold" of his handkerchief with starch....they were so stiff "nothing" would stick to it when he sneezed or blew his nose, lol...bless the guy because he never said
a word or cracked a smile when he used that batch of them.
Lisa L.
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FUNNY Yep that is how we got our ironing done. Just spray the heck out of the whole batch. Sprinkle roll up place in plastic bag and into the fridge. If we thought we may need more that a day it went into the freezer! I still have the sprinkler top for the soda bottles. How about the rest of you?
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