Originally Posted by Quiltmaniac2010
My old iron was driving me crazy with the auto shut off feature when I was quilting. My SIL is a seamstress and uses a steam generator iron for sewing garments. She recommended that I get one when my old iron gave up. Well, I gave up on the iron before it gave up on me! I bought a "Monster" steam generator iron from our Shopping Channel here in Canada. What a machine!!!! You can turn the steam off and the iron plate stays hot for piecing. When you want to steam the final quilt top to set the seams, WOW!! It works so quickly and those seams are perfectly flat when you are done. I also use steam to press my fabrics when I prewash them (and I prewash all my quilting fabrics) I just wondered if anyone else out there uses one. I have seem loads of posts on irons, but nothing on the steam generator ones. BTW, it was the "special of the day" and I paid $78 for it. Score!!!! My SIL's is a professional model and was $400!!
I had a Rowenta Steam Generator for when I did window treatments and loved it. But it started leaking and I couldn't risk using it for customer's drapes. I contacted Rowenta, and the reply I got was that if I used it every day I wouldn't have any problem with it. That made up my mind very quickly to never have another Rowenta product. I do miss having it for large projects, but leaking and spitting won't work any better in quilting than in window treatment construction.