{"id":66146,"date":"2025-03-22T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66146"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T02:08:11","slug":"new-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"New Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"

An iron is critical, so a few months ago when my Oliso stopped working<\/a>, I had to do something.<\/p>\n

I have a backup iron, but it isn’t stellar. Getting water into is a pain, it doesn’t get hot enough, etc., etc. Still, it is fine for when I need to sew and my ‘good’ iron isn’t working.<\/p>\n

I did some informal research. I found that a lot of people don’t put water in their irons, but just use a mister. I knew that wasn’t going to work for me (old habits die hard), so I looked at information from people who used water in their irons,<\/p>\n

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Tefal iron – Winter 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I still have a Reliable<\/a>** on my list. Mary really recommends it. However, I wasn’t ready to spend $199 on an iron at this time. Eventually, I decided to go with a Tefal<\/a>**.  One comment I got on it was that the commenter still had the same one she had for 15 years and she put water in it.<\/p>\n

I like this iron. It glides very smoothly. It heats up quickly, has good steam and isn’t difficult to put water in.<\/p>\n

One thing that really bugs me about irons is that you have to hold the iron at an odd angle to pour water into it. My backup iron is really bad with this ‘feature’. The Oliso was great. The Tefal is in the middle. If I am careful, I don’t have to hold the iron at all to add water.<\/p>\n

So here we are. I have had this iron for about a month. Let’s see how fast I destroy it! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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**N. B. : Obviously, you should shop at local quilt shops and small businesses. However, if you are too busy or can\u2019t find what you need there, I use Amazon affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item when you click on an item\u2019s link in my post. There is no additional<\/em> cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An iron is critical, so a few months ago when my Oliso stopped working, I had to do something. I have a backup iron, but it isn’t stellar. Getting water into is a pain, it doesn’t get hot enough, etc., etc. Still, it is fine for when I need to sew and my ‘good’ iron … Continue reading “New Iron”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[538],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-66146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","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\/66146","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66151,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions\/66151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}