skothing

I just went through washing several 100 of fqts and I have 8 different irons. I know I am a sick woman. the largest has a stand alone tank but after standing pressing for hours I remember my Aunt Lela use to iron for a living. Her husband was a drinker and never paid the rent or bills for their 4 kids. She ironed all day just to feed the children. She use a spray bottle and wet the clothes down and rolled them and put them in a plastic bag.They would set over night then the next day she finish the batch. I believe that is the way to get them done. Worked for me.

bearisgray

I also have the gallon of purchased spring water setting on the floor by my ironing board.

We used to do the sprinkle, roll, and wait of starched items before ironing them. If there was going to be a delay of more than a few hours, the batch went in the freezer!

Chester the bunny

I was going to comment on the water situation, but I'm still stuck on the 400 FQs.... Four...Hundred....
The green eyed monster has just reared it's ugly head.

GailG

Sounds like what I used to do for my ironing years ago. Except I'd put them in the freezer. Ironing was always so easy. I've learned a lot through the years. I don't iron until I'm ready for the garment.AND I buy a lot of things that don't need to be ironed.

edit: oops, forgot to mention the fact that I buy distilled water for my iron and keep it near the ironing board. Our water is of such poor quality. It just gunks up all of our things: coffee pot, irons, bathroom fixtures, etc. Distilled works well in my iron.

Quilty-Louise

LOL that isn't all the fat quarters that I have, I actually have about
4-5 times that much.

That is just what this go round is for them. I don't buy only fq's I
turn many of my half yard cuts into fq's and sometimes I even take
a full yard (if I have several yards) and cut into fq's, especially if I
know it is a fabric that will be liked by others in my swaps.

Someday IF I can ever get all my fabric sorted, fabric room organized
and cleaned up I will post pictures of the bins.

I periodically go through my fabric and donate 50-300 yards at a time
to my co-workers uncle who makes aprons, and baby blankets.

sheri

duh, a bigger bottle, on my way to walmart. I'm so glad there are people smarter than me.

psychonurse

I collect rain water in a clean container, filter it through a paper coffee filter and keep in my sewing room for
my needs. then use the funnel that came with the iron to fill my iron when needed. I can see that your method of a larger bottle would work for your needs. Just thought I would add my recycling tip here.

Rose_P

I have the exact same problem, with two different brands of irons, and at some point just gave up. I use spray starch before cutting anything, and never iron the fabric at all until I'm ready to cut it. I wash all fabric as soon as I bring it home (after pinking the cut ends), and it comes out of the dryer with minimal wrinkles. Then I fold it and put it away until I'm ready to starch and cut. I can't imagine ironing anything I'm going to fold and put away. It would be a total waste of time because it would need to be ironed again before cutting. Starch makes fabric much easier to handle, but it's not good to store fabric that has been starched because silverfish may be attracted to it.