Mini Iron - Like it or Hate it?
12-14-2020, 06:58 AM
#33
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: southern IL
Posts: 883
I love mine and I paid $30.00 for the first one and $12.00 for the second one from Walmart. I keep one by my sewing machine and the other is packed to go to sewing classes and retreats. (Well not this year but when things were normal.)
12-14-2020, 08:08 AM
#34
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: SoCal
Posts: 12,026
12-15-2020, 10:22 PM
#35
Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 61
Dritz
I was thinking of purchasing a mini iron like you see in many of the quilting tutorials on you tube but wasn't sure how useful it would be or if it was just another one of those quilting items that look really cool at first but in reality not as good as it appears. For those of you who purchased one, do you like it? hate it? pros? cons?
Love them to the death--of the iron.
12-16-2020, 08:10 AM
#38
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Gainesville, Missouri
Posts: 520
I decided to get the Clover mini-iron early on and it's saved me a million times over. It does get really hot, I use it on the medium setting and I can open my seams and press them open in the blink of an eye. It came in very, very handy when I was working my GFG, I was able to just press the seams open until the flower was done and then press the entire flower all at once with my regular iron. Any quilt I do now, with the exception of my sister's DWR, I used the mini-iron on the seams. It saved so much time and I was able to get the seams open correctly the first time.
12-18-2020, 09:22 AM
#39
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: East Kootenays, BC
Posts: 947
I have the dritz mini/travel iron size and I love it for pressing by my machine or taking out to quilt...which I hope we get to do again some day... it’s also great if you have a lot of repetitive pressing of small components as it isn’t as heavy as the full sized iron, so it’s easier on my shoulder. It gets really hot too, which is a bonus and you can use steam, although I tend not to. I have a clover mini iron I bought years ago on sale at Joann's and have never opened the package. Thinking I would give it a go, as it sounds like it could be very useful. I bought it to do turned appliqué, but haven’t done such a project yet, so there it sits. 
