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I received my Dritz 29500 Petite Press Mini Iron last evening - mail was running really late! I tried it out this morning and here is my review.

I really like it! I wanted it to iron down small seams that my regular iron was too big for, and for also ironing down batting fusion tape between seams, and it works great for both. I'm not sure about keeping it on the 'cotton' #3 setting or putting it on the #4 setting for linen, I want it to be at the hottest setting so that I don't have to hold it on the seam/batting fusion tape for more than a few seconds. But, really both the #3 and #4 settings get really hot, so I'll probably keep it at the #3 setting for cotton. It does get really hot, and when you first plug it in and turn it on, it takes about 10 seconds to get hot. It has a red light on it that blinks and stops blinking when it reaches the temperature you set it at.

The cord is as long as my regular iron cord, so it is plenty long enough to go from the plug down the entire length of my 4.5 foot ironing board on my ironing station and then some, without having to drape it over the actual board. So it will still be off the ironing board and out of the way of messing up how the fabric lays while I am using the iron.

I did have one small issue and that is that the edges of the sole plate, near the rear of the sole plate had a small burr on the metal edge, but DH is a tool and die/machinest guy, so he smoothed it out for me. It really didn't hurt or snag on anything, or bother any of the ironing area of the sole plate, but I could feel it and it bugged me.

It does tip as the cord comes off the center of the handle where it rests on the 'table', so I set it with the iron's stand in use, in a small ceramic cat food bowl (yes I have kitties), with the handle over the edge of the bowl to rest on my ironing station table - and it isn't tipping over at all now. Only the stand touches the bottom ceramic bowl (the edge of the bowl sits about 1.5" high) the iron handle and iron sole plate don't touch the bowl, so I don't have to worry about heat transfer. Though, I'm a safety girl, so I will only have it plugged in and on when I am actively using it.

So, all in all, yes I really like it. I give it a high 5.