Generic Best Press Recipe

In my last post, I mentioned pressing with my own homemade bestpress starch solution and I've been asked to give the recipe.

In a clean large jug, mix:

4 Cups of water
2 Cups of liquid starch
4 ounces of Vodka
10 drops of essential oil fragrance

Many quilters have questioned me about the Vodka. As an alcohol, it acts as a natural preservative, but in addition to that, it will chemically mix with BOTH the water and the oil of the scent to emulsify them together. I keep my jug right on the cellar stairs and it keeps for a year that I know of, I hafta make more after that because I use it up. I fill my little spray bottle often and always shake it before using because the starch settles.
I bought the liquid starch at my grocery store and it cost $3 in March of 2010 and I still have almost half a jug.

Today I threw my shoulder to the wheel on my last group of pinwheel blocks and completed 37 in a couple of hours. That means that I've done 97 pinwheel blocks and I think it was 100 of the 16 patches in two weeks, exactly. Whew! That's like lightening for me because I'm a slow sewer.

I wanted so much to get them done to empty my pie basket so that it can now hold my Orca Bay quarter square triangles.

I'm up to 120 done now, so I only need another 100 or so. Yippee!!!!