Want to be able to press on my dining room table
#2
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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Only thing I can think of is laying a towel down, placing a board on top of it and placing another towel on top of the board
I use an old portable dishwasher that sits in the middle of my kitchen(poor woman's kitchen island-haha!) I use it for storage, rolling pastry and general food prep and when I want to iron I fold a towel in half and lay it on top of the dishwasher. The loops in the towel fabric kind of keeps things from shifting. Works for me.
I use an old portable dishwasher that sits in the middle of my kitchen(poor woman's kitchen island-haha!) I use it for storage, rolling pastry and general food prep and when I want to iron I fold a towel in half and lay it on top of the dishwasher. The loops in the towel fabric kind of keeps things from shifting. Works for me.
#4
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I use the large Steady Betty for portable ironing surface. It's great. Fabric does not move at all, no distortion or stretching of the blocks when pressing. Professional tailors have used these for years, just wasn't called Steady Betty.
#5
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Join Date: May 2013
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Glad you mentioned Betty, Some good reviews on Amazon. Pricey though. Hmmmm.
#8
I have a dining room table (high top) that I use as an ironing surface. I had a 1/2" piece of styrofoam that came out of packaging from something I got. I put it on the table first. Then 1/4" plywood, covered by thin batting and used a sheet as ironing board cover. This seems to do it and I am not seeing any heat damage on the table.
#10
That is why my ironing board is in another room. I do chain sewing/piecing so I can have enough to iron all at once. The older I get the more I need to exercise.
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