If your ironing board cover has ever gotten heat stains in the pattern of the mesh base of the ironing board skeleton this is a signal that you need more padding underneath your ironing board cover. Adding padding to your ironing board can be done in two ways. One is to make or buy a new ironing board cover that has more padding or the much easier second option is to just cut out several layers of cotton batting to fit your ironing board and layer them under the ironing board cover you already have. One important factor to keep in mind with adding padding is to make sure each layer of batting is successively larger than the last so that you get a nice rounded edge on your board. Before I added this padding I would get weird divots in anything I pressed near the edge of the board, but now with the extra cushion on my ironing board, I have maximized the area averrable for ironing. Now that I have more robust padding, ironing and pressing are way easier, especially when using steam. Also because there are more heat-absorbing layers between the iron and the metal base of the ironing board it no longer heats up as much and is overall safer.
Also, I hope you enjoy the cutting ASMR. I know I did when I was cutting this out. There is something so satisfying about the sound of scissors cutting through thicker material. I couldn’t find my new fabric scissors for this project so I had to use my old ones that were my grandmother's and have a nick in the blade that makes it challenging to cut in long strokes.
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MUSIC:
Improvisation in D major by Laura Early