If you can achieve some sort of neat semblance of your fitted sheets once you have completed folding, I bow down to you. I am in awe. Please share your secrets.
I know there's some sort of secret about fitting the corners together and then squaring it off, yaddy yaddy yah. I even saw Martha Stewart talk about it on Oprah like a decade ago ... needless to say fitted sheets and mastering their folding technique wasn't exactly a topic of interest to me at the time.
No matter how hard I try, my fitteds end up looking more like a snowball than a neat, Martha-worthy product.
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| This is NOT what my fitted sheets look like. (Source) |
Sometimes I just plain give up and fold it a few times and then roll it up in a ball, not fighting the inevitable, choosing to instead, embrace my lack of fitted sheet folding skills.
I don't mind folding the regular flat sheets. I learned my skill at a summer job in 1993 working at a hotel folding white bed linens and towels, all day long. If I was folding for a hotel, I have to be pretty good right? Especially after that kind of repetition. My secret: hotels only use flat sheets!
Well, if you haven't guessed it already, today is laundry day and I'll be faced with a few fitted sheets along the way as all the beds were stripped this weekend. Errrr ... I really don't like folding them.
Wish me luck.
LadySmith
P.S. Dear MIL whom I know will read this ... I know you have secrets so do tell and share with us, leave a comment!
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I'm still trying to picture you folding sheets at a hotel at age 4! I didn't even have a paper route by then :) My folded fitted sheets look pretty much like that snowball you described, you are not alone!
ReplyDeleteMy friend told me how her mother-in-law does it and I now do it the same way. You have to fold the edge pieces all in to the centre on one side and then you have just a plain rectangle and you fold it up as per any other rectangle (I hope that makes sense). It is a little tricky to do in the air, but can be done with practice.
ReplyDeleteGrace: thanks for the tip! That is roughly how it was explained by Martha on Oprah. If I really take my time i don't do that bad of a job, the only challenge is that when you do it front of the tv, where I often do, there isn't much room to lay out the sheet and precision fold. i guess I have a choice to make - tv or nicely folded sheets?! i will have to practice my air folding! Thanks for commenting.
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