On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:14:44 +0000, Andy Dingley
wrote:

If you have a couople of flat irons still around, clean them up (very
carefully on the base). They make excellent sewing weights to hold
your fabric lays flat.

If I cleaned off enough rust to do that, I wouldn't have
much flat iron left. It makes an excellent bookend, though.
(I put a sheet of corrugated cardboard between the iron and
the latest issue of Threads.)

I use books for fabric weights.

Joy Beeson
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