Jessie R

Ours was a taller bottle. The first Pepsi Cola, I think.

bearisgray

Ours was a big green one!

mckwilter

Look for the Continental Dry Iron on Amazon.com. It runs about $28. I've had mine for 3 years, dropped it twice, and it keeps on working. I bought it to do fusibles because I was frustrated by the unfused spots where the steam holes were no matter how many times I went back over the fabric. And it doesn't have an auto-shutoff.

Also, one of my friends found hers at Home Depot for a few dollars less.

Weezy Rider

One thing about using a sprinkling top for a bottle, you could get all the water out! The pump sprayers seem to quit about halfway through the bottle.

hippiequilter

LoL! I guess I am an old soul. At 41, I still do things like marking and cutting without my rotary cutter, recycle cereal boxes for templates, I never put water in my iron, just use a spray bottle if it needs it, wash a tub full of fabric in the tub then hang as much laundry as possible out on the line. I have a lot of vintage fabric that still has tags from Woolworths, TG&Y and Sears. Sometimes I'd rather do things the "old way", keeps me grounded I reckon. Great thread!

greenjellybean

I used to cook and starch pillow cases, shirts and little girls school dresses, needed some to stiffen some doilies recently and contacted Argo corn starch and received the recipe.

carolynjo

When I joined a quilting group in Orlando in the late 60's, one of the ladies boiled the quilting thread in paraffin wax to make the thread slide through the layers easier. I hadn't thought of that in years!

Esmerelde

I made my first quilt 5 years ago and I did it with cardboard templates and scissors!

earthwalker

I loved our old wringer washing machine....if I could find another in mint condition I'd buy it! I also remember boil proof buttons (still have some) and 'blue' bags to put in with the whites. Last time I heard of someone using 'blue bags' was a guy I used to work with in the early 80's....he had a pedigree Old English Sheepdog and they used 'blue bags' in her rinse water before showing her. Apparently it made the white in her coat brighter

bearisgray

We had "bluing" that came in a bottle. Mom just squirted a some into the second rinse water.