I Always use an iron cover. My chief complaint aginst baby socks is no matter how well you secure them they will tend with side movement of the iron to slip and rotate on the iron and this makes things difficult. If one is concerned with stealing heat then the thicker baby sock or worse the rather thick commercial cover sold by Tower are going to be worse in that regard.

I have always used my old used T shirts that are much thinner than either and using the quick change pin technique I developed above the materail cannot slide sideway or rotate like the baby sock. Have never paid much attention to the composition of my T shirts but none have been all cotton.

Using the illustrated technique I never run out of covers and they cost absolutely nothing. They will burn through especially if you are a monocoat user as I am but no problem with quick changeouts using perhaps several in a single setting.


John