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What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?

Yes, I have a Clover Iron, and get a lot of use from it. It is good for
seams and for getting into tiny little spots.

Becky


"joysjane" wrote in message
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What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?

I use my little Clover a lot.

Sherry Starr

"joysjane" wrote in message
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What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?

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"joysjane" wrote:

What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?



I have a plain old Black and Decker iron. I believe it does have a
teflon coated plate, but that wasn't a selling point for me. What is
the selling point is NO auto shut off. I like to plug in the iron and
turn it on and sew and press when I need to. I do not want my iron to
shut of and then have to wait for it to re-heat. I think I bought my
last one at Target for under $20 about 5 years ago. Definitely more
price consious than a Rowenta and my arm doesn't get tired from shoving
around a heavy iron and I don't have to cry because the water thing
leaks all over :-) Or so I hear often around here.

I don't have the little iron, but I know lots of quilters who do and
love them especially for classes and workshops and such.

marcella

I have a Shark iron from Target. It functions both with and without the cord.
It wasn't expensive and I think it is WONDERFUL!

joan
joan o'reilly
live strong
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I also like the "steam/no steam" option. Some irons have to lower the temp
just to get no steam.

I'm glad you said "besides Rowenta's". For me, never again. I think a steel
soleplate is better than a non stick one. but that wouldn't stop me from
buying it if it had the other features.

Laurie G.

"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message
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"joysjane" wrote:

What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like
the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?



I have a plain old Black and Decker iron. I believe it does have a
teflon coated plate, but that wasn't a selling point for me. What is
the selling point is NO auto shut off. I like to plug in the iron and
turn it on and sew and press when I need to. I do not want my iron to
shut of and then have to wait for it to re-heat. I think I bought my
last one at Target for under $20 about 5 years ago. Definitely more
price consious than a Rowenta and my arm doesn't get tired from shoving
around a heavy iron and I don't have to cry because the water thing
leaks all over :-) Or so I hear often around here.

I don't have the little iron, but I know lots of quilters who do and
love them especially for classes and workshops and such.

marcella

Ah-ha!
I got a new iron just a couple of weeks ago.
I had said to a friend that I wouldn't pay much, and was thinking of
going back to dry only - because of drips amongst other things.
However, when I started looking around to see what was available (I keep
things a long time and so I get out of touch with developments!!) I was
amazed. My last iron - a Teflon plated - was a pain to clean, so I said
no more a Teflon sole plate, even though they are so smooth and glide
over things so well. But, I kept going back to the Tefal Teflon based
one *because* it had a 'self-clean' feature (like ovens), a permanent
no-scale device, and a no-drip device. It has an automatic steam flow
plus an extra steam burst at the press of a button, or a spray of water.
It will work dry also, of course.
It wasn't cheap, and it is quite heavy, but so far I love it. It does
*not* have an auto off (something I didn't want) and it is not cordless.
It also has an extremely long cord, so that I can steam adhere my Hobbs
fusible on the kitchen island without unplugging the iron - the greatest
benefit perhaps.
I use a small travel iron in my sewing room for pressing while
constructing, then I go to the kitchen to steam press when things are
nearing completion. I don't have a Clover iron, as I find my travel
iron small enough.
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What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?



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Best Regards
pat on the hill

Me, too, Marcella. I got tired of the Rowenta leaking and turning off.
The Black and Decker gets good and hot and stays hot. Mine isn't Teflon
coated, though, and I wish it was because when ironing some 'free'
fabrics donated, the iron became blackened by some polys hidden in there
that stuck and smelled horrid. Now I have to clean it. Any suggestions?
Nancycog in MD

I have had a Black & Decker and a Sunbeam - they both leaked all the time.
The Black & Decker did not get hot enough. I tried every plug in the house,
and it was the same. I bought a Rowenta on sale at Jo-Ann's and I love it.
It doesn't leak, and it gets hot. I like the on/off feature because mine
only takes 15-20 seconds to get hot again. I know lots of people have had
trouble with Rowenta, but I have had mine for about 2 years now and have
never had a problem.
Sherry Starr
"joysjane" wrote in message
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What is the best suggested iron to use (besides Rowenta). Do you like the
teflon coated plates? Does anyone use and like the little tiny pokey
looking irons?

I use the Iron-Off hot iron cleaner by Dritz (??). It does work well.

As for Rowentas, I love mine. No leak problem with 2 of them so far. One I
have does leak and it looks like it was seriously dropped at some time (it
was not new when given to me.) So it is a dry iron.
I also have my ex's grandmother's old GE dry iron. nice smoooth soleplate
which is wonderful for fusing stuff, and gets almost toooo hot.

Pati, in Phx

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Me, too, Marcella. I got tired of the Rowenta leaking and turning off.
The Black and Decker gets good and hot and stays hot. Mine isn't Teflon
coated, though, and I wish it was because when ironing some 'free'
fabrics donated, the iron became blackened by some polys hidden in there
that stuck and smelled horrid. Now I have to clean it. Any suggestions?
Nancycog in MD