I wonder, if our ancesters, who pieced with whatever they could get their hands on, are having a huge hoe-down up in heaven and laughing their insides out over the 14 pages that this topic has already brought about. It really must seem trivial to them for it to be such a huge controversy over which machine, which store to purchase your fabric, or whether to use steam in your iron. (Just where do you put the steam into this solid medal iron?) If only they had it half as good as we have it today.