No, she says to "press to the dark fabric and be careful not to stretch the strips when you press". I burned myself many times trying to hold open the strips and press because your hands are in the way with such small strips and pieces. I would really like to visually see how to press such narrow strip sets. In videos, they are always working with wider (2.5 or larger) strips so they just "toss open" the strip but that doesn't work with 1 inch or even 1.5 inch strips.