Originally Posted by missgigglewings

Kitsie: To answer your question, Grandma cooked the starch in a pan on the stove. I use to have to help stir it too. I think it was called Napha and it felt like powdered sugar. When it was all smoothe and liquidy I would dip my Grandpa's blue & white striped hats in it, then stretch them over the bottom of a pan. They stayed there till they were dry and when you took them off the pan they stood up nice and tall on his head. I also had to dip his red hankerchiefs in it and hang them on the line. He wore these around his neck to keep hot coals from blowing down his shirt and burning him. He was a fireman on the Nickle Plate Railroad out of Illinois, way back when! Sorry, I got carried away with the memories, so back to quilting!