Sewing hack:
You know how like 80% of sewing is actually ironing? This is how I make it less terrible:
Get a table, desk, Kallax, or similar. Throw a tabletop ironing board on top of it. Place it somewhere near your sewing machine table (next to in an L shape, behind, whatever works for your setup). The key is that you can reach it while still seated at your sewing station. If you don't have space for a permanent table, get a regular folding ironing board that can fold to the correct height. This setup works best with a swivel chair.
Put an iron on this table. Make sure you plug it in and turn it on when you are seated at your sewing station (and turn it off and unplug it when you are finished sewing)
When you need to press a seam, simply turn yourself to the side without getting up and press it. Easy.
I find that if I don't have a setup like this, I simply will not get up to press my seams. If I can reach the iron and have it waiting for me, though, I can work "pressing seams" into my regular sewing workflow in a way that isn't terrible for my brain and doesn't add a ton of extra steps (getting up, making sure the iron is on and set up, pressing the seam, walking back to the sewing machine...) and it reduces the amount of ironing in sewing from about 80% to about 50%
Hope it helps someone else to do it this way!
