To all of you have replied with wonderful suggestions, I thank you very much. To SoFunQuilts, you must have a newer Rowenta because my instruction book for my oldie-goldie says that I'm not to use distilled water in it. And to Karla, I have a front-loader washer so I couldn't do the agitate by hand process. I'm printing out all your replies in case I have a senior moment and forget what I'm supposed to do. Thanks again for all the helpful hints.