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I've been testing the wool pressing mats for a month, I can't wait to tell you about them!
I did a video below, and then listed the features I love after it.
It's exciting to find a tool that works and you love. These wool pressing mats have been used in the sewing industry for many years. My sewing friends use them a lot. Now we have sizes made for how we quilters work!
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The Features
- 100% New Zealand wool
- 1/2" thick, so it blocks the heat from coming all the way through. It can be used on table tops. In my workshop the other day the ladies used them for all the patchwork right on the table.
- A Very dense firm mat which I feel makes my blocks very crisp. I don't like a soft ironing surface
- You can pin into the mat, even block an item like embroidery or patchwork if it's not perfect (wink!)
- The wool material keeps your patchwork firm so it won't slip.
- Since it is wool, it does have a wool smell. I found after just a few days it was gone. It will have a wool smell when you use steam. This does not bother me as I came from garment making and sewed with wool all the time.
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18 Responses
I have read that if the wool pressing mat has any ” manmade” fibers they will scorch
I also have severe scorching from this mat.
This wool pressing tool is one of the best thing to have in the winters. I personally using it for the past 2 years. And believe me it have solved the problem for me.
Thanks for this review,Pat. I bought a mat before I found that you had reviewed them and had a link to purchase, or I would have used yours, because I appreciate all that you do for us quilters. I have made several of your Mysteries and gave them for Project Linus (Let’s Go Camping) donation or Quilts of Valor, (Children’s Library, In the Summertime), etc. I am constantly sewing and love the wool mat for pressing my parts and pieces. Now here is the question I have been searching the internet for an answer. Why is my iron getting scorch marks on it when I press on the mat? I am using a T-fal iron, I have backed my temperature down a bit from Cotton,on the steam setting and it is still happening. When I first used it, I did not use the Best Press which I often use, because I wanted to get an unadulterated impression of the mat. I can’t figure out why this is happening. I have not heard anyone else talk about it. Can you help? Thanks for any insight you may have. It is very annoying to have to clean my iron so often when I am not even using fusibles!!
I just learned about how you can turn old wool sweaters into new things like mittens and potholders and decided I’m going to turn 1 into an ironing mat! 🙂 🙂 wish me luck, lol
Mary think about it this way. If you spray starch on a piece of fabric…like your ironing board cover, over and over and over and over. What happens? it builds up and it may scorches. Then you wash your ironing board cover.
Wool is going to be the same. It’s fiber. If you spray stuff on it, then keep spraying stuff, eventually you need to wash it. You can wash it by hand and hang dry. It’s 1″ thick so you have to be gentle.
those squishy mats are icky, upgrade Penny!
How does the wool tolerate starches and sprays?
Oh, my, yes! I have one of those squishy mats with the reflective fabric on top. I hate it. It slides all over, too. I need the wool mat. I do have a thin white pressing cloth which is probably a 12 inch square and I love it.
Love my wool mat and am enjoying the second sampler.
yes get another Mary Ellen!
me too!
You will love it! Be sure to use my link to support my small family business Karen!
I think firm is really better for pressing, you will love it! Be sure to use my link to support my small family business Michele
I was just asking someone about ironing boards. I feel like mine is too soft and and doesn’t allow for a good press. Just put the wool mats on my Christmas list.
Thanks for the review..did not know how cool the back stays…on my Christmas list as my husband never knows what to get me !!! Going Big…but agree the small or medium is perfect for retreats…
Love my wool mat
Got my wool mat a few months back, LOVE IT!! Thanks for the review, I may buy another to take to sewing group or retreat that isn’t as large as my 17(?) x 24,