Have a peek at the life of a farmer's visually impaired wife and learn a little about self-sufficiency and saving a few bucks in the process. Let's face it, the economy is challenging all of us to be frugal, so we need to help one another as much as we can.
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.
