{"id":5915,"date":"2015-09-26T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T19:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2015-10-04T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T19:52:59","slug":"a-fabulous-tool-the-rowenta-steamer-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/a-fabulous-tool-the-rowenta-steamer-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fabulous Tool:  The &#8220;Rowenta&#8221; Steamer &#038; Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5916\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NWxSW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NWxSW.jpg\" alt=\"Clarissa irons &quot;NW x SW II&quot; button robe with her brand new &quot;Rowenta&quot; Steamer Iron\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NWxSW.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NWxSW-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarissa irons &#8220;NW x SW II&#8221; button robe with her brand new &#8220;Rowenta&#8221; Steamer Iron<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After buying a brand new (or sometimes 2nd hand) iron averaging $10 to $40 every 3 or 4 years for since I began sewing in 1974, I invested in a $240 &#8220;la machine!&#8221; \u00a0I must have reliable equipment to get my work done in a timely manner; I cannot rely on &#8220;lesser than&#8221; equipment. \u00a0The last iron that conked out on me was terribly disappointing because I could not finish my job. \u00a0It&#8217;s not like I can just go out and buy me a new iron in a small remote town in Colorado Rockies whose stores are not open on Sundays!<\/p>\n<p>So while I was shopping in Juneau&#8217;s &#8220;JoAnn&#8217;s&#8221; all the irons were on sale for 40% off. \u00a0I hauled this huge iron back to my studio in Colorado. \u00a0It&#8217;s been worth it. \u00a0Such a pleasure having a tool do its best. \u00a0In turn it helps me to do my best (and in a timely manner)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After buying a brand new (or sometimes 2nd hand) iron averaging $10 to $40 every 3 or 4 years for since I began sewing in 1974, I invested in a $240 &#8220;la machine!&#8221; \u00a0I must have reliable equipment to get my work done in a timely manner; I cannot rely on &#8220;lesser than&#8221; equipment. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-of-the-trade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}