The many ways to use your iron...
 

I was steam pressing a block this morning, trying to stretch it a scant 1/8" to, "make it fit." I started thinking of the many ways to use an iron in quilting. What are some of your hot tricks with the old iron?

~ Cindy

hmmm... melting crayons to color fabric for a quilt? Had a class at a guild meeting, and it's really fun... http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Quilt...s=crayon+quilt

Besides using to to press seams, the only other use I know of is being a door stop.

While living in the college dorm,used an iron to make toasted cheese sandwhiches( with tin foil and no steam! )

I was thinking like francie yuhas when i saw the title. Cooking appliances weren't allowed in the dorms when I was there. We "fried" hamburgers on our iron, wrapping the hamburger in aluminum foil, putting the iron down on it one side at a time.

they make good weapons..........:D

I have an old, old GE that weighs a ton and use it to keep magazines and books flat while scanning!

I love old irons I decorate my vintage machines with them beside.

I've heard of cooking with them many times, but I just have never had the opportunity, lol. Mine only gets to press material....

My old cast iron ones are door stops.