Oliso mini iron review making a purse pincushion

You saw my post yesterday about the purse pincushion I made for Pam.

It’s an ITH (in the hoop) pincushion and SEW much fun and actually easy to make too and looks adorable!

This time I tested out this NEW Oliso mini iron I got from Oliso

It’s brand new on their website!

I opened up the box and it’s just really cute looking and sturdy and has this neat silicone trivet that it’s “clipped” into

Here I lifted up the tip to take it out of the silicone and there’s two sort of tabs on the back too.

This silicone is for traveling and I really like it just for the counter so I can just rest the iron on there while working with it.

I plugged it in and there’s a blue circle around the power dial (which I had to turn to turn on first) the blue became solid quickly, meaning it was warmed up!

For the pincushion I used scraps of 9 different patriotic batiks from and island batik quilt I’m working on for a blog hop in July

Once I started stitching ITH a lot of the fabrics had to be flipped over and pressed down and this iron was great for that.

I did bump into the hoop on the right side since my design was taking up the full hoop size, but then you just turn the iron, it was not a big deal at all. On the left it was super smooth.

And soon enough I had the pieces done and I finished the pincushion and added a button and handle.

The pincushion is by embroidershoppe here

 

Thanks again to Oliso for sending me the two irons! I love them!!

(If you click the Oliso link and order the iron, I get a small commission as an affiliate)