Originally Posted by AtHomeSewing
The way that I use a dryer sheet, is to take a NEW one, get my iron nice and hot. Place a piece of scrap fabric on a pressing surface, put the dryer sheet on top of the scrap, at one side. Now, take the hot iron run over the top of the dryer sheet and directly onto the scrap of fabric. A (new) dryer sheet has something in it that gets very slick when heated up. This will sort of pull the stuff off the iron and onto the scrap of fabric as you pass onto it.
Works great.
Here is a video Sharon Schamer did on a more involved cleaning:
http://www.beginningquilter.com/vide...ron/index.html
This works for me, and yesterday I did something else.
I was fixin to iron on something white-white, so I looked at my iron...ugh...
ding, ding, ding,..idea,...I had been ironin on applique pieces, and alcohol removes sticky stuff...
don't use alcohol on your fabrics though, can remove the ink!...
I got out my glass cleaner, and sprayed it onto a paper towel,
-----------------------------NOT-----------------------------------------
directly onto hot iron...
think this could be dangerous, (flammable)...
used to work in a hospital and
a lady died from spraying near her stove, while on....
ANYWAYS,...it worked like a charm!. All gunky stuff came right off! :D
you might want to just test a small area, to see if this is good for you, but it worked so well for me...i did the baking soda mess, and the pot scrubber mess, in the past...I will stay with dryer sheets, and now, the paper towel with the glass cleaner sprayed on it. :D