That sounds like my mom's mending and ironing piles. My mom LIKES to sew and to mend but her sewing area is always piled with stuff. Right now she has my bro's old bedroom for her sewing and it is PILED to about 4-6 feet high with stuff, mostly projects she started and didn't finish or plans to start soon. And she has enough fabric to clothe everyone in Oklahoma. For a week. I am NOT joking. She has a shed packed full of fabric, plus that room and a storage unit she rents that my father isn't supposed to know about. We won't speak about her storage unit full of office supplies - mostly binders and folders students turned in with assignments and never picked up. They are still usable so she cannot pitch them. I plan to either have a storage unit sale or an auction of them if I even have to deal with them!!
I don't iron clothes. I have an iron. It has been used on those little melting beads the kids play with and I do iron cross stitch projects when I am done. NOTHING else. husband is good with an iron so if he needs something ironed he can do it himself. I don't buy clothing that needs to be ironed. Or anything else.