Sew Very Easy Get the Wrinkles Out
09-30-2016, 10:40 PM
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Back in the old days....ahhhh.....we sprinkled the cotton shirts, tablecloths, etc. with water, rolled them up, put in a plastic bag, stored the bag overnite in the refrigerator, and then "ironed" the next day with a dry iron. Steam irons came later. Do you recall using a soda pop bottle as the water container? The little sprinkler plug had cork on the stem to grip firmly inside the bottle neck.................. I also recall those old irons were h*e*a*v*y!!!
10-01-2016, 05:14 AM
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Back in the old days....ahhhh.....we sprinkled the cotton shirts, tablecloths, etc. with water, rolled them up, put in a plastic bag, stored the bag overnite in the refrigerator, and then "ironed" the next day with a dry iron. Steam irons came later. Do you recall using a soda pop bottle as the water container? The little sprinkler plug had cork on the stem to grip firmly inside the bottle neck.................. I also recall those old irons were h*e*a*v*y!!!
10-01-2016, 05:28 AM
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I remember those days. I started ironing at 8 years old. I was good at it. By the time I was 10 I was doing most of the ironing with the exception of my mother's bras with the spiral seams. I could never get them ironed to where she could stuff them all the way to the center. There was always a vertical crease on the end of one side and a lateral on the other.
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