How to Clean your Iron

Thank you so much for all of your comments on yesterdays post. You see I sew with some amazing ladies who have a real gift of putting colors together. Everything they make turns out beautifully. Not that I'm comparing, you understand, but I just seem to struggle with coordinating colors together, and I needed to know if it was something that others struggled with.

I also wanted to pass on a helpful hint. You may already know about this, but I didn't so I thought I would share. You know how we've talked about irons before. Keeping the plate clean can be troublesome at times.

I've used a product I bought from JoAnn's to clean my iron, which works fine, but can be pricey. My biggest problem appears to be the plate seems scorched in places.

So I recently found something that works not only on the scorch marks but on gunk that may accumulate on my iron.

Using a damp Magic Eraser (that I use to wipe away marks on my painted walls) I found that it also works on removing every mark on the iron faceplate. I had to use a little more pressure on the indention's as they were well baked onto the faceplate.

But wa-la!!!

Clean iron!!

I found this great idea on Aimee's It's Overflowing blog.