I wonder if this cooling method comes from mothers who put out their laundry
on the clothesline in the winter and the fabric froze. I had not
experienced the freezing laundering syndrome until we moved to Illinois. My
son's cloth diapers froze stiff on the clothesline. From all my years of
living in the Deep South, I had not experienced frozen laundry until then.
We didn't have a clothes dryer in our apartment and I had to iron his
diapers. At the time, we were snowed in for a week.
A friend of mine grew up in Nebraska. She told me that her grandmother
ironed everything year round. I recall my mother ironing sheets and
pillowcases.
I do have a couple of question about ironing.
1. I had mentioned previously on this list that there is a correct way to
iron. Can someone point me to a webpage that shows the correct way to iron?
I put my dress in the freezer for the night. If ironing wet linen causes it
to stretch, is there a particular way to iron it to decrease the amount of
stretch?
2. I had some 100% white cotton Priscilla curtains that I need to iron. I
paid a lot of money for these curtains and really love them. In the past
years, I starched them to remove the wrinkles. The last time that I washed
them, they were yellowed from the starch. I bleached them but can't get rid
of the yellow tinge.
2A. Is there another way to get rid of the yellow tinge?
2B. Is there something other than starching to assist keeping the curtains
crisp longer?
Penny Ladnier,
Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites
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