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How to:
1. With the sheet inside out, place one hand in each of two adjacent corners.
2. Bring your right hand to your left, and fold the corner in your right hand over the one in your left, so the corner on top is right side out. Next, reach down and pick up the corner that is adjacent to the one that was in your right hand (it will be hanging in front), and fold it over the other two; this third corner will be inside out.
3. Bring the last corner up, and fold it over the others so it is right side out.
4. Lay the sheet flat, and straighten it into the shape shown above.
5. Fold the two edges in, folding the edge with elastic in first, so all elastic is hidden.
6. Fold the strip into a smaller rectangle.
7. Continue folding until rectangle is the size you want.
note: directions made for a right-handed person; if you are a "leftie" then use the hand opposite the one suggested above
image via Martha Stewart
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11 comments:
Thank you! I am always so displeased with how mine turn out ;-)
I learned how to fold them properly when I was a missionary in France and I unwittingly agreed to help a sweet old lady with her laundry and ironing because I was unfamiliar with the French words for that. I thought we were vacuuming. But no, she had us folding and IRONING her sheets!
I have tried to do this so many times. Thanks for the reminder - I'll pass it on to my husband who is much better at this than I. I laughed when I read the comment from "buttercup" - too funny.
Oh my how I needed this post. You would think at my age I would have learned this at some point but my fitted sheets end up a rolled up pile in the closet.
this is great! mine always end up looking like I kind of just balled them up. Even though I didn't.
martha's tutorial on this several years ago changed my life.
believe it or not, i have quite a few fitted sheets that i just pulled out the dryer and i was dreading it because i'm so bad at folding them! perfect timing!! thank you for posting this! lol.
Steph- thanks for this reminder. I think I'll have to relearn this once a year forever. I can never remember.
Buttercup- I remember ironing sheets with my grandmother. Such a lost art.
My mom taught me this method, but mine never turn out quite that perfect. They are usually still a little bit lumpy, but I think that is because I am not meticulous enough in the folding. It is much better than wading them up in a ball and putting them in a drawer, like I used to do.
My mother came to stay for our first born. She said she knew she was at my house when she found the fitted sheets folded this way. (I'm a perfectionist in unusual ways).
I too learned it from Martha a while back. Such a great tip!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! have nothing else to say but thank you,I hated the way my folded sheets look :)
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