patricej

You want to see scary?

SherylM

Holy cow, that's really scary! And the reason I never leave my irons plugged in.

I hope there was no damage other than the iron.

QuiltnNan

Wow!!! Scary indeed!!! Do you know what caused that?

oksewglad

Patrice...inquiring minds want to know too.

SusieQOH

Yikes! At first glance I thought it was a skull !!!!

redbreast

Wow! When you say scary you really know what you are talking about.
When I think of all of the times I have forgotten my iron and found it blinking in the
morning. ! I will definitely work out a system so that never happens again.

patricej

i never have figured out what caused that to happen.
the light also plugged into that power strip was fine.

i consider myself very lucky that it never burst into flames.
just melted and filled my sewing space with smelly fumes.

guess who tries really hard now to remember to unplug irons when not in use.

bearisgray

Were you there when it melted?

Or did you follow the fumes?

How did you get it out of the sewing room on a timely basis?

Cate74

You may not get equal shrinkage on both fabric and thread.
I just finished a quilt using preshrunk cotton, used quality 60 and 80 wt. cotton threads to piece. I decided to wash it in cold water. Dried on low heat. Now I have rumpled seams. I'm sick that this happened. I want to iron it but fear breaking threads. Interesting thing, I ironed seams while assembling. Why wouldn't the thread shrink then? And can I iron it without breaking thread?
I think from now on I'll use polyester thread to piece.

DrosieD

I'm posting this mainly from a garment construction view but I do carry it into my quilting. All fibers should be of the same content, cotton fabric, cotton thread, cotton batting, cotton backing, cotton quiting. While the majority don't believe this reigns true and I argued the point with Rickey Timms. His response was "do you want all your beautiful quilting to disintegrate". My argument was, no, however what good is all that beautiful quilting if all the cotton has worn away from abrasion of polyesther thread. I piece with cotton and quilt with cotton, UNLESS I can't find what I need, then I go to rayon as it's also considered a natural fiber, then if all else fails for a small area I would consider trilobal poly. If I've spent months piecing, laying out, layering the sandwich and quilting if It's all going to fall apart it will do so at the same rate. As far as shrinkage, today's cotton doesn't shrink at the rate our mother's and grandmother's did. We have high quality long fiber cottons that have been mercerized. I'd not hesitate to stitch 2.5" strips with cotton thread, use my cotton batting, and backing and quilt with my cotton thread. I doubt it's going to wrinkle that much. Besides, IMHO it's the wrinkling and softness of a washed quilt that gives it the charm and the feel of sleeping at grandma's house. Only my opinion it may only be worth a grain of salt to some though but worth a thought.