First of all congratulations on your quilt! Would live to see a picture of it. Boy the iron story is scary. I do too believe in flukes but man made things came be defective. I hope you wrote the time, date and name of the rep you spoke to and if you did it may help when speaking with the company. I have one of those Aliso automatic stand up irons. I noticed yesterday the handle was awfully hot when I was ironing. Your story is going to make me pay more attention to what is going on with the iron. Does anyone have any feedback about those irons? I guess I will start researching ironsnow. Thanks for opening my eyes about the danger of irons...a little caution can go along ways! Oh yeah my iron spit yesterday too.