Where did you find the pattern for the large top?

What a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

I've been on the hunt for old fashioned powdered startch since I got her Rotary Cutting Revolution book. I know it's out there somewhere....... Good luck!

There's one here on the board and quite a few online at other sites.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57168-1.htm

You have all reminded me - I remember my mother had a sprinkling bottle next to the iron, filled with water. It was teal colored, and the water came out in perfect sprinkle-sized drops for ironing. The top screwed on and off for filling. I'm going to look on ebay to see if such a thing is around anymore. I may have to make my own - salad dressing bottle and poke holes in the top? 2 liter soda bottle with holes poked in the top? Hmm, I will get creative.

Wow - just googled sprinkling bottles. (I know, I need to get busy with something else...) There are so many of them out there - plastic, glass, metal, vintage mostly. Who knew?

Here is a link to the starch
http://www.lehmans.com/store/Home_Go...erid=shopzilla

The original hint reminded me of my mother. She hated to iron--and this was back when everything we wore had to be ironed. She'd dampen the clothes, roll each item up, put it in a laundry bag, and throw it in the freezer. When she wanted something to wear from the bag, she'd take it out to thaw enough to unroll it and iron it then. Sometimes she had more laundry in the freezer than food!

For liquid starch or powdered starch, try a small-town home-owned grocery store--esp. one in a rural area. Country people still use it, so the stores stock it. I live in a small town and it's always available.

Laundries use it too, so you might check to see if a laundry in your area will sell you some. You'll probably have to take your own jar along when you go to ask.

I did this too. Working 40 to 60 hrs a week I had to iron a few pieces at a time. They seemed to iron so much better after they were frozen.