I use a spray bottle to press after the dryer, steaming takes too long for me. Some one had told me that to keep your large pieces of fabric from getting mangled, fold it matching the cut ends, and zigzag it. You need to trim the ends when you cut it anyway, so it doesn't matter if you waste that little bit; Frankly I haven't tried it yet. What I have done with the bigger lengths is not unfold it, that seems to minimize the mess.