Cleaning My Iron

Closeup image of my hand holding a red kitchen scrubbie preparing to scrub the bottom of my clothes iron.

If you watched my previous video on the Quilting Gadget Haul, you might remember the cutesie little iron I bought that was just the right size for a small child...but NOT MEANT FOR A SMALL CHILD mind you.  That little iron will come in handy later on when I'm pressing quilt block seams, but since I needed to de-wrinkle fat quarters and larger pieces of fabric, I decided to bring out Big Bertha.  When I looked at the bottom of Bertha (yeah, I know that doesn't sound right) I knew there wasn't going to be any ironing just yet.  The fact of the matter is the years have taken their toll on Big B and she needed a cleaning.  There was a light sprinkling of rust, water marks and a sticky something that all had to go before I could use her.  It's always something isn't it?

First I must confess that I am not, nor have I ever been a regular ironer.  I always made sure to not buy clothing that would require me to iron it before wearing and as long as I had a clothes dryer, tossing an item in for a touch up was so much easier.  I'm afraid most of the ironing I have done in the past, oh say 28 years, was done in the line of sewing projects - and not that many of those either.


Here's how I cleaned Big Bertha.  Hopefully she'll last me another 28 years.