'When I was thinking about home-keeping sessions for this show, I thought I would just do a 101 on shirt ironing,' Stewart says at the start of an archival clip. You may wonder what more you can learn about ironing – after all, the process typically involves just an iron and a board, and the rest is fairly self-explanatory. In true Stewart style, however, her method isn't ordinary, and so a 101 is needed. The most significant difference comes in the form of a terry cloth towel.
Stewart says that placing a terry cloth on top of your ironing board is one of the best ways to get wrinkles out of clothes, and it protects your buttons, too. 'The reason I iron on a terry cloth towel is because I find that the padding helps me avoid any additional creasing. The fabric also dries out faster as you iron,' she says. 'Once you see how important this terry cloth is for ironing, you’ll never iron without one. It just helps you get every single mark out of the fabric.'
