Oh b*gger!!!

[Smowball]

I do a lady's ironing for her, a very professional business woman. I've just got to the last item - a silk pair of pyjama bottoms, haven't let the iron cool down enough , and the iron has stuck straight to them and they now have an iron shaped hole in them, just like out of a Benny Hill sketch!!

Do I reurn ironing and deny them even being in there or do I fess up??They look pretty expensive : (

p.s. how do you remove purple melted silk from an iron???

[devil99]

LOL think you'll have to fess up ;-/
who the hell irons pyjamas anyway, bet she wouldn't iron them if she did her own haha x

[Smowball]

Thanks for the sympathy lol.

[Psybbo]

If it was the leg, turn them into baby dolls

[EvianBaby]

You have to tell her. She might think you nicked them otherwise, which would be worse.

[rowanwitch]

I always sort my ironing starting with the stuff that needs the coolest setting and working upwards after a similar problem... hopefully she won't be too miffed

[devil99]

ah sorreeeee :-(
it'll be ok it's not like she goes out in them i am sure will forgive you xxxxx

[sherrardk]

Everything in this house gets ironed on super-steam setting, we're not ones for fancy stuff - you'll have to own up about the pj's, as Evian has said, you don't want the woman thinking you've knocked them or lost them.

[Smowball]

Well I would hardly just nick the bottoms would I - the top is fine lol.

Ohhhhhh, Do I really have to confess?? : (

[EvianBaby]

People do weird things Smow.

Offer to do the next lot free or something.

[Traci66]

Smow, if you've got a free day for ironing you can do mine, I don't wear silk pyjamas.

[Smowball]

Lol, its so hot Ive been doing it in the garden, not quite so bad as being indoors.

[craft1948]

lol my cleaner did this to a silk cami................she looked ready to cry and I burst out laughing. Leave the iron to cool and the silk will just peel off in one piece.

[emmie]

fess up and offer to pay for them, that is about all you can do.
How to get stuff off, no idea, good luck..

[pdust]

i agree with em.....

i always start with stuff that needs low heat and work up to high heat..... you should be able to get it off the iron with a brillo or one of those scrubby pads.

[firewatch]

let the iron cool compleatley then get a nilon pan scrubber and gently work at the silk, and if its stuck i very much doubt they are silk more like a polyester combi!

[rowanwitch]

don't use anything like that on a coated soleplate I've just ruined a new iron that way.... peel off as much as you can and try ironing it on some coarse cotton or linen cloth or some scrunched up kitchen paper on a setting slightly lower thn the one that caused the problem

[Canary42]

You better confess - after all she may be an ABer.

[VivienneM]

Bad luck! There are two other possibilities. You could look up the brand on the label and purchase another set of pyjamas for her online, although it would probably be hideously expensive! (but would save having to 'fess!).

Alternatively, perhaps a repair could be made by a professional seamstress. It might be possible, for instance, to shorten the legs and use the material to "patch up" the iron-shaped hole.

I think you know you have to 'fess up! But if you present her with a repair solution it will sound better. Take courage -- chances are she was tired of them anyway. Good luck!

[rowanwitch]

What make were they?

[annie0000]

....she probably got them in primark :o)

fess up though. Better to be known as a crap ironer than a liar or cheat!!