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Elizabethq
Farmgirl in Training
29 Posts
Elizabeth
Houston
Tx
USA
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 Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 07:16:14 AM
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How many of you still iron? How do you get linens crisp and all the wrinkles out. It seems I never can get them all out.
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 10:30:46 AM
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I use steam and sometimes I spritz water on them to help with the wrinkles. Anyone else out there with tips for Elizabeth???
farmgirl@heart
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Edited by - Kim on Sep 01 2005 10:31:01 AM |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 10:32:40 AM
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I love to iron but honestly do more ironing when I sew than any other time. I do iron my shirts, and husbands work shirts and dress shirts and the boys white shirts for church..or when something needs it. I do iron my hand embroidered dish towells if I will be hanging them up to look at and not just drying dishes with them. My grandma ironed everything..and I remember my grandpa paying my sister and I a penny apeice to iron his hankies. He always used lots of them for some reason. He kept one in his pocket at all times. He was welder/maintainance man for the school district until he retired. And a real cowboy. That is one of my fun memories from childhoood...ironing a perfect stack of hankies for Pappy.
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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greyghost
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
Lynn
Summerville
Georgia
USA
650 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 10:50:05 AM
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| I'm bad - I'm still addicted to Magic Sizing - they sell it at the grocery store. Started using it when I had to iron all my heavyweight cotton ghi's. Works great on linen, too. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 1:46:48 PM
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I love that stuff too..I use it on my aprons. I love to spray my ironing with lavender water..but for the aprons..I like em a little bit stiffer.
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2005 : 5:50:14 PM
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I hate to iron most of the time. Everything my hubby and I own is cotton. The girls do their own ironing. I do enjoy ironing my aprons, napkins, table linens and the like. I guess 'cause it makes me feel domestic. I plan on making my own lavender water with the next cutting of my lavender. Never have done that before so we will see.
"The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach is joy. Take joy!" Fr.Giovanni |
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Mari-dahlia
True Blue Farmgirl
269 Posts
Marianne
Hoosick Falls
New York
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2005 : 6:44:26 PM
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I don't iron anything, much to my grndmothers dismay. When I got married my husband knew how to iron and my mother told me to never let on that I could do that, so I did'nt. I try to catch linens as they come out of the dryer and flatten them by hand, it works pretty well.
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
361 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2005 : 7:27:47 PM
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I love to iron. It can get ahead of me though.
I splurged on linen sheets years ago. They are great for summer. They just wick away any perspiration. BUT, they were pretty wrinkley at first!!!
When I have too much ironing to do at one time, I throw the excess into a huge ziploc and freeze it. That way it doesn't mold. Then I found that this made my linen sheets softer and they ironed out better. They get softer and softer with each washing but the freezing did help!
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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shepherdess
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Robin
Eatonville
Washington
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 12:26:44 AM
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I love to iron and I also use Magic Sizing. Ironing is very relaxing to me.
Farm Girl from Western Washington
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 09:58:24 AM
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linen sheets...wow that would be so nice. I don't think I have even seen them for sale..I need to look..now that would be heaven!!
Jenny in Utah
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 6:23:55 PM
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If the ironing gets ahead of me I plug in an old movie. It seems to make it go more quickly. Forgot about Magic sizing. My Mom always used it. The sheet in the freezer crackes me up. I never iron my sheets, cause I figure when the bed is made no one will see them, and at night my eyes are shut so I don't see them either.
"The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach is joy. Take joy!" Fr.Giovanni |
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - Sep 04 2005 : 11:28:20 AM
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Elizabeth, Most linen clothing is not suposed to be all crisp and wrinkle free but to get it fairly wrinkle free I always sprinkle mine and let it set about an hour rolled up in a towel in the fridge. Then Iron from damp to dry and mostly wrinkle free. Table linens are best candidates for starch. There are other areas on the forum where we talk about ironing and even have shared recipies for making your own starch. Do a search for laundry starch, I think you will find it.
I would love linen sheets!!! Linen is one of my favorite fabrics to have next to my skin.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 10:11:01 PM
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My mother always swore by spritzing things and putting them in the freezer before ironing. Personally, I don't iron anything unless it's really wrinkly, then I do it right before I have to put it on. I can't imagine ironing my sheets. I can barely get everything folded and put away!!
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain
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