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Tools of the Trade => The Haberdashery => Topic started by: annieeg on August 22, 2020, 11:33:17 AM
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I bought one of these yesterday when I was out (in a bricks and mortar shop). It is so cute, and - I hope - useful!!!
https://outbackyarns.co.uk/sew-easy-mini-pressing-board/
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I got a sleeve board for a present a couple of Christmases ago and now use it instead of my full size ironing board. I can't manoeuvre the big one out of the cupboard. It Is very useful for small ironing and pressing work.
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Reminds me of a sleeveboard too
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I haven't got this one I have a Leifheit, which costs considerably more than I paid for it now, but they are fabulous for quick jobs. That one looks a tad too small, but still useful.
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Thanks to @Kenora the darksiders have set about making their own. It saves a fortune on steamrollers! :laughing:
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I just press on the top of a wooden bookcase, with an early small quilt on top
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I bought one of these yesterday when I was out (in a bricks and mortar shop). It is so cute, and - I hope - useful!!!
https://outbackyarns.co.uk/sew-easy-mini-pressing-board/
I'm just getting a server error when I try to open that link. :'(
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I just press on the top of a wooden bookcase, with an early small quilt on top
How can you press properly over all the seams in a quilt? - unless it's a wholecloth quilt.
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Thanks to @Kenora the darksiders have set about making their own. It saves a fortune on steamrollers! :laughing:
@wrenkins I missed that. Is it a separate thread? I have my own 2 cents to add. Been making my own portable boards of various sizes for years. Have tutored many a local quilter in the method.
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It's a tangent on one of the BOM threads - July or August I think.
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@Renegade Sewist it's in the July's BOM thread.
We all @Kenora read the instructions and we need to press on a hard surface so chopping boards were brought in. :laughing:
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I'm just getting a server error when I try to open that link. :'(
It has just let me in 0_0
Yes, looks like a short but wide sleeveboard, which I have one of - and it's out of stock :S
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It's a tangent on one of the BOM threads - July or August I think.
It starts at the bottom of this page (https://thesewingplace.org.uk/index.php/topic,10397.75.html).
Mine is 14" x 18", a layer of wadding and topped with a bit of old bed sheet.
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I have a table top ironing board from ?Home bargains, a sleeve board that I've had since Adam was a lad and ---- an old cupboard door (top of a fitted wardrobe) wrapped in an old towel and pillowcase.
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When I was making all the masks, I looked for something like this. Best I got was a full size board. Sadly, the full size was about the same price.
This board looks a lot like a sleeve cap board I have, though.
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This thing is cute but so tiny. I think I could press a buttonhole with it. It's only 4"x9", about the size of my iron.
Now as to a hard surface that's what I always use. Can't stand a mushy pressing surface. If your iron can sink down into your padding you will be distorting your fabric every time. That's why seams end up lumpy bumpy bubbly. I didn't know that everyone didn't know. For quilting if you want your pieced blocks to be accurate and the right size you really need to use that firm surface.
I use samples of laminate flooring. Here that would mostly be Pergo or Wilsonart. It's fairly thin and virtually indestructible. Heat & water resistant, won't burn, amazing stuff. I used a tile sample about 12" square, layer of cotton batting/wadding covered with that silver ironing board cover fabric. I have that neatly taped down with good quality clear packaging tape. It's probably 15 years old. It sits next to me when I piece blocks.
I'm going to make another one using a plank. That's about 4 foot long and nine inches wide. Covered the same. I can use it as a leg board for many pants, pressing quilt binding in half and for making bias tape.
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Technically, I don't need another board. Small or not, there are times these are handy outside of quilting: masks, cuffs, plackets...small jobs you mend or need to touch up to go on.
I have several boards and iron items, and more then most of you. Not a humble brag, it is what it is. Some stand alone, some work on other surfaces.
I have 3 full size fold away boards
One professional board
Leg Board
Velvet board
2 sleeve boards
Sleeve Cap board
3 busks
Tailor point
2 clappers
In wall board
Rolling hamper style board
Drapery board (it goes over my pro board)
And a bunch more. Sometimes...things like this are just easier to pull out or use because of convenience, even if my iron is as big as it is.