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Publications / Burda Style 01/2018
« on: January 02, 2018, 20:48:21 PM »
January Burda Style was supposed to be available in the UK from 22/12/17. I have it reserved for me at my local WHSmith and when I went to collect it today found that they hadn't had it delivered. I was told that the next one would be available on the 19th January with no explanation as to what had happened to the January edition. I know that this has happened before which is why I decided to get it reserved but as they didn't receive any last month reserving is no help!

Has anyone seen a copy at their local store? Just wondered whether this is a nationwide thing or whether it's just Plymouth. Also, does anyone have it on subscription? I assume that subscribers received their copies, I think I might consider subscribing in future  :(

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The Haberdashery / Irons
« on: December 27, 2017, 10:22:58 AM »
Now it's the sales I've decided that it may finally be time to buy a new iron. I've had my Tefal turbo pro with a ceramic plate for several years now and it's fine apart from it's steaming ability. I find it a bit lacking when I want steam quite often, especially at lower temperatures (which is understandable to an extent I suppose). I seem to remember Philips Azur being spoken of very highly on the forum before and so I've been looking at those and I've come across the ones they call 'intelligent technology' where you appear to not have to worry about temperature setting as it supposedly will never scorch. Just wondered if anyone has any experience with this type of iron and whether there are any pitfalls to consider if your main use is for dressmaking. I'm wondering how such an iron would cope with iron on interfacing for example and whether pressing could be more fiddly. Also, whether because of the way it works and because it doesn't know what type of fabric it's working on, if you could actually obtain a decent steam on low temperature requirement fabrics e.g. viscose.

Any thought or experiences with any irons appreciated

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Hi, I'm new... / Hello again!
« on: December 07, 2017, 14:01:34 PM »
I was a previous member of TSF (Debs) and am so glad to have found that TSP exists even though I'm rather late to the party  |O  Well done to the former members for setting up this site, looking forward to catching up  :)

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