{"id":376,"date":"2007-12-30T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/pressing-matters\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T22:39:28","slug":"pressing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/pressing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houseguests are gone, I have a few more days off, so I am back in the blog saddle. I have lots to show and talk about, but I will try and break it up into manageable bites.<br \/>\nAt the beginning of November, I promised a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/fabrics-blog-fun-and-product\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on my new iron. It is has been weighing on my mind and I have been tripping over the box (not recycled to remind me to write this), so here it is finally!<\/p>\n<p>TFQ is my iron monitor, mostly because she <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/visit-from-quilting-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presses a boatload of fabric<\/a> for me each time she comes to visit. Once again, it was time for a new iron, so we went out and bought one when she was visiting for PIQF. I defer to her knowledge since she is usually in the midst of pressing that boatload when my latest iron gives up the ghost. I am partial to irons I can replace relatively inexpensively at my local Target. I know some of you love your Rowentas and other high end pressing tools, but I haven&#8217;t heard enough consistently good things about them to spend the money. Change my mind!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PICT9873-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149934384516339650\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R3g-CYWql8I\/AAAAAAAABMc\/82vOLVqkKrM\/s320\/PICT9873-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"177\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis time I bought at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Decker-D2030-Auto-Off-Advantage\/dp\/B0006ZUHR0?ie=UTF8&amp;s=kitchen\">Black &amp; Decker Home Digital Advantage iron<\/a>. So far, these are the things I like about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It lets me know when it is ready<\/li>\n<li>It lets me know when it is going into auto-shutoff mode<\/li>\n<li>Auto-shutoff is not so short a time that I get annoyed<\/li>\n<li>When I turn the steam off it is really off<\/li>\n<li>When the steam is on, I get a lot of steam<\/li>\n<li>Filling the water reservoir does not require bodily contortions best performed by a Cirque du Soleil acrobat<\/li>\n<li>The heat is hot; if you touch the soleplate, you burn the offending body part<\/li>\n<li>The parts do not feel flimsy &#8211; the button for setting the temperature is solid, the dial for adjusting the steam doesn&#8217;t wiggle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, I like it. I am still wondering if the iron switch is the culprit for my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/pineapple-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pineapple woes<\/a>. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t number the Pineapple blocks as I made them so I don&#8217;t know if the larger border blocks were made first or after I got the new iron. I really haven&#8217;t figured out a way to test the iron on this problem and friends think not, so the iron stays.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/tackychristmasyards.com\/\">Tacky Christmas Yards<\/a> for a bit of Christmas cheer?!? And if you need any apron patterns (great for embellishing!), take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/tipnut.com\/56-free-apron-patterns-you-can-make\/\">these<\/a> over at TipNut.com. Marie D pointed them out to me and some are kind of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houseguests are gone, I have a few more days off, so I am back in the blog saddle. I have lots to show and talk about, but I will try and break it up into manageable bites. At the beginning of November, I promised a report on my new iron. It is has been weighing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/pressing-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pressing Matters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56740,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/56740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}