View Single Post
Old 05-05-2010, 06:10 PM
  #54  
AliKat
Super Member
 
AliKat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 2,943
Default

Originally Posted by dotcomdtcm
The quilt I am making calls for me to iron every seam as I piece them together. Which means I have to hop up and down between my sewing machine and ironing board. Does anyone have a better set up? Alas, I do not have a studio...yet! Thanks so much for your expertise!
Yep, I used to do that too. When that happened I just chain pieced and then chain ironed. That way I would have to get up to go to the iron and get some exercise.

Then last nite at a guild meeting our chief teacher guru told us that the most recent thinking is to lightly finger press or use a wooden press gently on all seams and NOT iron til each block is done. She said that ironing can distort the fabr

go figure.
AliKat is offline