95 inch back door sliding glass door. Part V. (continued from Part IV here)
5 necessary components to a successful iron session (please refer to diagram above):
a) sand bag cloth that takes 8 times longer to iron than any normal material (good practice right?)
b) trusty iron-on hem with clear instructions
c) an actual iron, from the 21st century!
d) Kool-Aid pitcher. to aid the process of filling the water reserve thing up
e) rag, to soak up the water that missed the water thing when pouring from the pitcher
Busting out an iron for the first time in my life (no exaggeration here unfortunately), I learned a lot in a little amount of time. Like it doesn’t take 20 minutes for an iron to warm up… I always thought they did. Oh and that it’s really hard to fill up the little water holder thing in the iron – but when its full the iron just feels more legit, like it’s doing a better job. Nature of the chore I guess.
I had to get the 5 perfect components in order to start this second step of the new-curtains-for-that-awfully-inconvenient-door. The first step was throwing them into the wash because the directions on the iron-on hem said to do so. And trust me, I put a lot of faith into directions on anything that takes a needle and thread out of my hand. I just about rolled over and died over discovering the thread-less phenomenon.
The problem however was that after taking one of the panels out of the dryer (only one because I was too scared to stuff the second one in) was that it was so jacked up that I was already thinking about how I could go about returning the cut fabric. “Do I still have the receipt? Can you return fabric after washing it? Can you even return fabric in general?” But looking at what emerged from the dryer was not unlike wondering how to straighten out an already crumbled piece of aluminum foil back to its original state. It was bad. So, the inevitable “busting out” of the iron happened, although I was hoping the iron would only be used for whole hemming part and not actually for IRONING.
It literally took an hour and the result was not superior. There were still some creases here and there, the water spots from the iron were having a tough time drying, and there were splotches from the powder detergent I’d used. I’d tried super-soaking the detergent spots with the built in water squirter but it only mucked it up even more. I was not stoked but the blood, sweat, and rock and roll that went into it made the justifications fly out at lightening speeds. At least it smelled delicious and was semi-straight.
Part VI coming up next…
