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05-05-2011, 10:52 AM

#51

Carol E

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Join Date: Apr 2011

Location: Southern Indiana

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I have been making my own pressing spray.

2 cups distilled water (guess boiled would do)
2 oz rubbing alcohol
6 -12 drops of essential oil (sweetpea or lavender my favs)
1/3 cup liquid starch.
Put in spray bottle. Shake before each use.

I like this a lot.

05-05-2011, 02:17 PM

#52

BizyStitches

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: Kansas

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Originally Posted by ruck9085

Okay, back in the day, my momma used real starch. She mixed it with water to the strength she wanted and then rinsed the clothes in them, hung em on the line and then when it came time to iron, she used a spray capped coke bottle for a sprinkling bottle, sprinkled the clothes, rolled em up and stuck em in the fridge for a few hours before ironing. The clothes always ironed up so crisp and sharp. Why can't I find that old fashioned starch now. I have to buy that old magic sizing stuff and it doesn't make my fabric near as crisp.
Anybody know where I can buy the old fashioned kind of starch? Or even the old Niagara Spray Starch? All I can find is that Magic Sizing stuff.

Well I have hear/read that you should use Magic Sizing and NOT the Niagara starch. The best thing to use is "Best Press" try it and you will wonder how you pieced quilts without it. IMHO. lol

05-05-2011, 02:55 PM

#53

dash2000lbs

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Join Date: Feb 2011

Location: Big Bear City Ca

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Thanks for the memories, my grandmother would wash on Monday and iron on Tuesday. She would pull the wash out and have her starch ready in a bowl, then would put statch what she wanted and then hang them to dry... then she would sprinkle them and they would sit over night... they always looks sooo crips and smell sooo good.