I’ve changed my mind. I’m going to make myself a skintight costume with Spanx lining and a cape (Phyllis, I may need your help), and start parading around as the Pressinatrix. Anyone found pontificating as an expert and giving plain wrong advice will promptly get smacked upside the head with a seam roll.
Don’t think I won’t do it! I’m a mom, you know.
You mean I shouldnt put Chanel no. 5 in my iron? Who knew!
Shucks, I was comtemplating pouring slim fast in, ironing my slacks and hoping it would be ‘transdermally’ absorb and make my hips smaller. No go, huh?
that should have been “absorbed” sheesh!
I don’t put anything in my iron, I swear!
Well gosh, maybe perfumed water in my iron will eliminate the bubble that formed when I sewed an invisible zipper with mismatched lines of stitching! LOL!
So that’s your pet peeve, huh? Mine is giving incorrect advice on how to use hair canvas.
My pet peeve? Nope – it’s people who claim to be experts giving bad information. I saw an email newsletter from a purported expert explaining all about “waist stays”, in which the information was so wrong it was breathtaking.
Oh yes, a Julie Newmar catsuit is in order with a helmet based on a gravity feed iron like the famous Schiaprealli Shoe Hat!
While you are at it, Pressinatrix, take on the fabric industry and take care of those who call fabrics with no linen, “Linen”. Makes me mad every time I come across this misleading nomenclature.
Uh oh – I better make sure I rename the ‘Rayon “Linen”‘
What if we put “linen” in quotes and explain that it’s not actually linen?
She said sheepishly…
LOL–I mean it! I actually did Laugh Out Loud at this blog post. If you are wearing a catsuit and mask the next time I see you, I will know why.
You should be like the Terminator and have a catch-phrase when you deal with miscreants
– “You just been Press-in-ated!” 
I am thinking a Tumblr account filled with these reprimands would be HILARIOUS,
gawd – I love that cartoon!!
Ooooh I love that idea, Robin!
Now I really want a skin-tight costume (preferably shiny) with a cape. And I want a cape that SWIRLS. Wearing an outfit like that I probably won’t even have to smack anyone.
Wish I could read the item that caused this! This is about the 2nd and 3rd things this week that I’ve read bloggers comment on (one was about a sewing pro blogger apparently not pleased about a newcomer to the industry, your “pressing” mission and newsletter waist stay mis-information) and I’m left wondering “where’d that come from?”.
Regarding non-linen linen – how about calling it lynen – sort of like they do with fake gems. Misspell it just enough that people know it’s not the real thing, but close enough they still know what it’s trying to imitate.
Were you reading my mind? I was thinking how can some people call themselves experienced or experts and put such misinformation on their blogs. There is one particular young lady I really used to admire. Now when I look at her blog she sometimes have tutorials. I say to myself no that will not work for most of the people. I look for disclaimers but she does not have any. So I started looking and I noticed she has stats and rates on her blog for advertisers and I remembered something If you are not paying for it you are not the customer you are the product being sold . So now I am thinking does she really make the clothes she states she makes. She used to sew with an industrial machine now she uses a low end sewing machine . This was a ah ha moment for me and confirms don’t believe every thing you read on the internet.