How many yards do you iron?
 

I made lots of fabric purchases last month and started to wash them, which also means ironing them all. I always pre-wash before storing. In one hour I ironed 5 pieces totaling 24 yards.

Out of curiosity, how many yards of fabric do you iron in one hour?

I'm pretty Type A, but even I haven't counted how many yards I can press, fold and store in an hour.

i generally pre-wash, dry, fold & put away- i iron the fabric when i am getting ready to use it---see no point in having to iron it twice...also i may want to use starch before cutting & i don't store starched fabric...i did however spend a whole day one time ironing batik fat quarters...it was almost a 'zen' day- i really enjoyed just fondling, ironing, ohhing & ahhing over the beautiful fabrics- i think there was something like 20 yards of them- i haven't done any 'marathon speed ironing' or tried to break any records- i enjoy the process once in a while...generally i am just ironing as i go-

I agree with ckcowl...I wash it when I buy it and iron when I take it out to use it. No marathons of ironing for me

Ditto here, I only iron what I'm going to use at the time. Otherwise, washed, folded and stored.

I've never kept track of yards per hour. :o I wash, dry and iron all fabrics before putting away. When I have a pile ready to iron, I pop in a movie and enjoy!

I'm another prewash (which for me is just a good rinse in hot water) dry, fold neatly and put away.
I starch and press just what I need when I'm ready to cut. Our differences are what make us interesting.

I measure fabric before and after washing it - just because I always feel so 'justified' for washing it when I can verify that it shrank. I usually just fold it until ready to cut it, also.

When I refolded fabric a few years ago, I did iron everything - from the back - and put safety pins in the selvages if there was a flaw or something to watch for on the piece.

I pre-wash but never iron, until I'm ready to use the fabric. Seems like a waste of time, to iron, then fold . . . then have to iron again, before using!

I normally don't keep track, but was curious how many I can iron before taking a break :o

I guess I like to iron twice, hehe, me and my quirky ways!

I wash all my fabrics, and only iron when I am ready to use them. Then a bit of starch and I am off to sewing! :)

I typically do not iron until its ready to be cut. Batiks are the exception... they wrinkle more in the dryer and I can't bring myself to store really wrinkly fabric.

I don't even think I own 24 yards of fabric. Too much ADHD in me t do the same task that long... I jump around from one task to another

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I have lots more than 24 yards of fabric, but I can't stay at the sewing machine for an hour, let alone the boring ironing board. My mind races too much at the ironing board.

I agree I do the same much easier.

so funny to read these.My mind races about cutting and piecing fabric when I an doing dishes,etc.

I can't stand and do anything for an hour. The last thing I'm going to to is spend my time washing and ironing fabric and then turn around and iron it again before I cut. I iron with Best Press right before cutting.

I also iron as I go, because I starch and its hard on me to stand and twist with lower spine arthiritis which now has moved to rib cage.

How do you handle the batik quarters? I have a bunch to do and was wondering if I should serge the edges. I've never worked with batiks before.

Probably not too many in one hour. lol I don't iron it til I'm ready to use it, just wash, dry, fold onto comic book boards and put into the shelf. You'll have to re-iron it before using anyway.

I wash my fabric when I bring it home and don't iron it until I need it. Mainly because I am not that fond of ironing in the first place, but I read in a couple of the books that ironing is not good for fabric in general so it gives me a good excuse to wait until I need the fabric.

I don't "time" anything.

Ditto. I figure it will only get wrinkled or creased if I iron it before I store it, so I just wait & iron it when I get ready to use it.

I have never measure time or fabric, just start the job and stop when I get tired of it and move to something else and come back until I finish. But I also starch while pressing. Which much longer because I iron it dry.

Ditto. I don't iron until I need to cut and sew.

Glad most of you do as I do wash fold and store. I HATE ironing but never never use unwashed fabric. I usually soak in very hot water for at least 30minutes. I fold the fabric into the water, squeeze fabric and then hang on the line. If they are dark fabrics I hang with the back of the fabric showing. I don't own a dryer, don't need one. I live in the Sunshine state. Seeing a line of clean fabric is better than a line of clean sheets.
Once I've washed fabrics I cut corners with pinking shears, then if unwashed fabric accidently gets mixed in I know what has been washed. No sense washing twice. If a new fabric has a strong chemical smell I hang it in the sun for a day or two and it usually goes away. If the smell is still there after 2 days in the sun I'll soak in prewash powder.

I don't iron them after I wash them. You will need to iron it again anyway before you use it, and I can tell which has been prewashed because it has not been ironed.

Batiks seldom ravel at all, one or two threads, tops. I toss FQs in with the rest of the fabric on gentle cycle. They hardly wrinkle at all either. Love 'em.

I prewash everything, fold out of dryer and press when ready to use like most everyone else. Longest single piece I've ironed (so far) was 12 yards, but I have no idea how long it took. It's wide backings that I hate to iron, all the rest is easy.

as few as possible. I wait until the last minute to iron.

I've never counted, but I usually have my favorite TV show on, or a favorite movie, and the time seems to fly by, and before I know it, I've ironed 20-30 yards of fabric. While I was in Rehab, recovering from a spinal cord injury, one of the therapists gave me 39 yards of fabric that a friend had given her and she wasn't going to use it (I counted because I was curious) which was a very generous gift. If I washed it all at the same time, I could iron for hours,without realizing how long I had been ironing, but I would wind up with a large stack of washed, ironed and stacked fabric.

Have a Big Board (either purchased or made) for an ironing surface sure makes the job easier!

As with many of you, I wash the fabrics, dry, fold and put away. I iron and use Best Press only on what I am going to use when I am ready to use it.

I haven't a clue. Have a lot of unironed washed fabric around.

I don't Iron :) I do press my fabrics when I have stitched them, but there again I never pre-wash, oops hope there are no quilt police about. Seriously I don't see the point of the wastage of time, energy bills etc; to pre-wash materials. The ones I buy are from good quilting fabric makers and I like the "dressing" in the fabrics when I quilt.