mawluv

Put lemon juice {fresh or bottled} in your homemade spray starch!! It never goes bad and you do not have to refrigerate it. Recipe is here on the QB!!!

chiaraquilts

I have tried the homemade "best Press" and it didn't work for me either. Now I buy gallons from Ebay, save a lot over LQS prices for small bottles and don't run out all the time!

LynnVT

If you've already bought vodka and decide not to use it, of course you can make martinis or gimlets, but the best thing is that it makes excellent pie dough. Use it instead of water for the flakiest pastry! No taste difference, but wonderful.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2...gh-recipe.html or Google pie dough vodka recipe.

Quilt Fan

Hello:
Thank you for your ideas. I did go back and read some of the other posts about this and several say this actually gives the fabric body. Not my mixture in any way. Perhaps it is necessary to add the starch but then it makes sense to just use starch. Might just try Lynn VT's suggestion and make a pie. Or clean with what is left.
Hope all of you are finally having Spring weather.

quiltstringz

I vote for Vodka & Orange Juice.

MaryKatherine

There is no starch in alcohol
MaryKatherine

damaquilts

I use to use a spray put out by Dryel. not sure if I spelled that right... Any way, I loved it. It went away and came back as Bounce Spray. Really really strong fragrance . Couldn't use it any more. I must wash fabrics , the chemicals make me sick. I make my own spray with vodka. I do not expect it to work like starch.It does work better than plain water for me and if I need starch I mix that too ... Because I can get exactly the strength I need.

AZ Jane

I buy the liquid starch from Wal-Mart and mix to strength I prefer. I do like my fabric fairly stiff.

arline423

This is the spray I having been using, and it works well for me. I believe most of you have forgotten the liquid starch.
Hope this helps. Arline.


DIY Pressing Spray ❉ 2 cups distilled water ❉ 2 oz Vodka ~ needed to make the essential oil mix in with the water. Rubbing alcohol cannot be used because it's a different type of alcohol. It's a chemistry thing. Yes, people look at me weird because I have a bottle of Vodka in my stash bin. I'm used to odd looks. If you want it to be unscented, simply leave out the essential oil and vodka. ❉ 6-12 drops of 100% pure essential oil ~ ❉ 1/3 cup of liquid starch Shake well before each use.

Mariposa

I use Magic sizing, and get it from WalMart for about a dollar a can. The dollar store also has both sizing and starch....works for me!