Is there a better way to fold sheets?

[Phil Spencer]

Whilst making the bed and changing the sheets this morning, after fitting the bottom fitted sheet and putting the top sheet on I was wondering if there was a better way to fold it.

Is there a way to fold the top sheet so I can place the folded sheet on the bed and just open it up with out having to resort to giving the thing a big flick to straighten it out.

There must be a way to fold the sheet as I iron it so I can just put it on the bed and open it out. Does any one have any suggestions?

I have already made a template so I can get crisp 45 deg hospital tucks.:U

[wheelinround]

yes there is 2 aunts used this method and time in hospitals of old system I used to observe. One a nurse the other years working in hospitality.

The sheets are folded into 3rds longest edge 1st, then folded again 3rds, this way you open fold out along the bed then drag one side across the bed.

[Phil Spencer]

The sheets are folded into 3rds longest edge 1st, then folded again 3rds, this way you open fold out along the bed then drag one side across the bed.

Thanks I will have to change the way I iron the sheet, I suppose the centre crease would be handy to centre the sheet on the bed also so I would be able to leave the ruler in my pocket.

[Phil Spencer]

Is there an easy way to fold a fitted sheet?

[jimbur]

Is there an easy way to fold a fitted sheet?
Just what I was going to ask Phil.
Cheers,
Jim

[Woodwould]

I'll ask our maid and get back to you Phil.

[seanz]

Is there an easy way to fold a fitted sheet?


Easy? I think it takes two for a good result and next time I'm "requested" to help fold the sheets I'll pay attention to what's going on.
:wink:

Basically you put your hand into a corner and fold the opposite corner into the hollow, then repeat untill you run out of (fitted) corners. You get left with a sort of blobby rectangle that can be folded in half for storage.

Edit
I googled "how to fold a fitted sheet"......there's 376 videos and nearly 900,000 'results'.
Is housework the "next big thing" for galoots?

[tea lady]

Is there an easy way to fold a fitted sheet?You iron your sheets? :dunce:

But folding fitted sheets is one of my super powers. You put one corner on your hand. run you hand along the edge till you get to the next corner. put that one onto the first corner on your hand keeping right sides facing and wrong sides facing. (ie, it doesn't really matter which way the corner goes on you habd. ) Continue around the edge collection corners and stacking them an your hand untill you have all 4. ...... :think: ..... how to explain the next bit? ..... I'm going to have to make a video aren't I. :doh: There rre some on the net that do it with the sheet lying ion the top of the bed.... :pfffft! Amateurs. :p

[underfoot]

folding fitted sheets is one of my super powers. :p
I think there's a "folding fitted sheet" tai chi move :q

[mic-d]

The woodwork forum has got everything (http://www.woodworkforums.com/f43/mastered-hand-cut-dovetails-more-difficult-challenge-122789/#post1198175)...:D:D:D

[Phil Spencer]

The woodwork forum has got everything (http://www.woodworkforums.com/f43/mastered-hand-cut-dovetails-more-difficult-challenge-122789/#post1198175)...:D:D:D

Winder if I can make a jig to do that?

[tea lady]

Winder if I can make a jig to do that?
Dancing too? This place really is a wonder! :rolleyes::D

[Pat]

Phil, don't contemplate the uncontemplatable. Go to the shed and play with the Spindle Moulder and seek perfection there.


For the record, yes I do wash, hang out to dry and fold all articles of our linen closet and there is no way of folding the fitted sheet, just do your best and throw into said cupboard, close the door in a hurry and run:U

[Phil Spencer]

You iron your sheets? :dunce:

Starch them to, can't beat getting in between fresh crisp sheets :)

When I make the bed, it has perfect hospital tucks at the end, their is an exact even amount of sheet hanging from both sides (I keep a fo;ding riler in my pocket for this part of the job) before I tuck in.

Even the Savoy can't match how I make the bed, a man has to do the job properly.

[seanz]

The woodwork forum has got everything (http://www.woodworkforums.com/f43/mastered-hand-cut-dovetails-more-difficult-challenge-122789/#post1198175)...:D:D:D

So it's a recurring theme? Probably just gets used to improve the forum's thread count........

[Master Splinter]

Iron...iron...what is this 'iron' you speak of, and why is it used with sheets?

[Phil Spencer]

Iron...iron...what is this 'iron' you speak of, and why is it used with sheets?

I have two, one has a smooth sole (bit like a plane) and it smooths the wrinkles out, I use this on sheets to get a smooth finish it doesn't really matter though if one wears pyjamas, if I want the slept in look I use a corrugated iron :D

[mic-d]

Starch them to, can't beat getting in between fresh crisp sheets :)


Used to be that crispness wasn't a sign of freshness... It was a signal to wash them. That was long ago and I was young... then I met the good lady.:)

[tea lady]

If you fold 'em straight out if the drier you don't need to iron! :D

[Phil Spencer]

If you fold 'em straight out if the drier you don't need to iron! :D
Where is the fun in that!!!!

[joe greiner]

Iron:?
Fold:?

Yer all dunces. From the dryer directly back to the bed. Works for me.

Cheers,
Joe

[AlexS]

Irons are wonderful things. They can steam dings out of wood. They can heat hide glue to unstick it, or heat PVA to attach the fabric to a tambour.

Do they have another use?

[Master Splinter]

Do they have another use?

Amazing that they can be used with washing, too!

[Phil Spencer]

Iron:?
Fold:?

Yer all dunces. From the dryer directly back to the bed. Works for me.

Cheers,
Joe

Why don't you dry your sheets in the Sun on a clothesline, the Sun's energy is free!

[tea lady]

Why don't you dry your sheets in the Sun on a clothesline, the Sun's energy is free!I gotta walk past the shed, and it never gets done! :rolleyes:

[BEKKY]

I bought my daughter an iPad for her birthday and my son an iPhone for his.
They were so happy I decided to by my wife an iRon for hers.
I may recover in about a weeks time. :D:wink::C

[wolften]

They were so happy I decided to by my wife an iRon for hers.

Cacked myself on that one

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Irons? Folded sheets? :lb:

I've developed my own method which makes both irrelevant:

1. Take the sheet out of the dryer.
2. Take everything else out of the dryer and place it on the sheet.
3. Grasp the 4 corners of the sheet and spin.
4. Cram the lot into the Cupboard.

Et voila! At the start of each week I already have that week's supply of clothes, linens etc. in one convenient bundle.

I have been wondering lately whether I should rotate the bundles in the cupboard on a regular basis though. And should they be stacked and stickered for air-flow? :think:

[Phil Spencer]

How come no one dries their sheets in the sun any more? It is free, emits less green house gasses and is better for the environment not t mention the money one would save.

[RETIRED]

I would say that a lot of people work and are not able to take them off the line before they get wet again down here (Southern States) from moisture.

[Christopha]

1; What is this washing thing?

2; I was told by an ancient wise man that I Ning was a martial art known only to (Hawk! Spit!) women.

3; commenting on womens work is bloody ridiculous. Strewth that bloke can skite!

[RETIRED]

3; commenting on womens work is bloody ridiculous. Strewth that bloke can skite!Julie told me. :whistling2:

[tea lady]

Julie told me. :whistling2::hmm: Does that mean you were listening at the time? :oo:

:run:

[tea lady]

How come no one dries their sheets in the sun any more? It is free, emits less green house gasses and is better for the environment not t mention the money one would save.I do actually dry mine in the sun! Although at the moment its not working! They come in wetter than they went out even if it didn't rain! But I do live up the hill from you Phil! Still think you don't need to iron of the line either! :p

I now use the drying rack in front on of the heater. Kills two birds with one stone so to speak. My place looks like a Chinese laundry all winter!:C

[beer is good]

What a good thread!!!

We only use sunlight and wind to dry all our washing - mind you, when you live in the driest place on earth (Perth) it's easy.

I think the real driest place on earth is somewhere in Chile where the annual rainfall is 0.8 of a millmetre.:

As for fitted sheets - I have always thought that they are evil monsters..... but I have been outvoted.

[Christopha]

Why do you have sheets? I just use a 12" roller and whack on another coat of semi gloss every year or so. Pillows are cheap, get one every so often when yer at the supermarket place getting the baked beans, cheese ,crackers and froot loops.

Sounds like some a youse blokes are just big girlymen!

[Phil Spencer]

it was a big day at Phil's place this morning, it was the day to change the sheets. After folding the sheets as instructed earlier and then ironing them what a joy it was to make the bed.

After airing off the mattress and the feather thing that goes under the sheets I placed the bottom fitted sheet on the bed and carefully unfolded it, it unfolded perfectly centred on the bed and was simple to then stretch over the mattress and tuck in.

The real surprise (and a pleasant one at that) was the top sheet, I unfolded it lengthways and after a quick examination I determined which side of the bed to unfold it from. I pulled the sheet across the bed and discovered that not only did I have the sheet the right side up the creases left from ironing it left a perfect set of lay out lines so that I could now position the sheet on the bed without having to unfold the metre rule to measure if the overhang was even on both sides.

All up making the bed this morning and changing the sheets was a totally pleasurable experience one that I would recommend.

I have now crossed another thing off my bucket list - making a perfect bed! :)

The next thing on the list is how to fold and iron my jocks :rolleyes:

[Woodwould]

it was a big day at Phil's place this morning, it was the day to change the sheets.

Don't the years just fly by!


The next thing on the list is how to fold and iron my jocks :rolleyes:
I've found it's essential to wash them first, otherwise the steam from the iron can activate some rather unpleasant smells.

[Phil Spencer]

I've found it's essential to wash them first, otherwise the steam from the iron can activate some rather unpleasant smells.

Do you use starch?

[Woodwould]

Do you use starch?
Without question!

[Phil Spencer]

Without question!

A personal question WW
Do you wear boxers? and when you starch and iron them do you iron in a crease down the front of each leg?
How do you iron the more intimate briefer items of intimate apparel?

[damian]

:hmm: Does that mean you were listening at the time? :oo:

:run:

That's the funniest thing I've read in ages. Had anyone been in the room my chuckling would have confirmed my madness :)

[Woodwould]

A personal question WW
Do you wear boxers? and when you starch and iron them do you iron in a crease down the front of each leg?[/quote
I wear smugglers most of the year. I've recently been wearing woollen longjohns (with the buttoned crap door at the back) and they don't really hold a crease very well.

How do you iron the more intimate briefer items of intimate apparel?
Nothing I possess could be considered brief.

[Master Splinter]

How come no one dries their sheets in the sun any more? It is free, emits less green house gasses....

Our Sun is an unlicensed, undamped and uncontroled fusion reactor of an unproven design that is known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova) to have extreme thermal runaway issues when nearing end-of-life, creating large quantities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Mass) of inorganic waste (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table) which gets widely scattered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe) rather than contained.

Pollutants include environmental contaminants such as chlorine, strontium, plutonium, uranium, lead, beryllium, radium, fluorine and arsenic, not to mention transuranics and several varieties of unobtanium.

Some instances of runaway also leave behind even nastier pollutants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole) that actively destroy the fabric of space-time.

I don't think you could find a single Occupational Safety and Health mob who would sign off on the design of the Sun as it currently stands.

I, for one, am all for lobbying to replace it with a more controlled and safer design!

[Woodwould]

Pollutants include environmental contaminants such as chlorine, strontium, plutonium, uranium, lead, beryllium, radium, fluorine and arsenic, not to mention transuranics and several varieties of unobtanium.
You sound like Tom Lehrer.

[tea lady]

I have now crossed another thing off my bucket list - making a perfect bed! :)

But can you bounce a coin on it? :think: Are you doing hospital corners and everything? although I guess they are a bit redundant with fitted sheets. In fact I am surprised a purist like yourself condones fitted sheets. :D

[Phil Spencer]

But can you bounce a coin on it? :think: Are you doing hospital corners and everything? although I guess they are a bit redundant with fitted sheets. In fact I am surprised a purist like yourself condones fitted sheets. :D

Nothing wrong with fitted sheet, although I would prefer a straight sheet, I do however do a hospital corner on the top sheet I am contemplating making up a template so as I can get an exact 45 deg angle on the fold, I use to be able to bounce a coin off the bed but Mrs Phil decided that we needed a feather under dooner and a feather top doona I couldn't give up the top sheet, I need to feel tucked in of a night (wouldn't want teddy to fall out he sleeps on the edge of the bed beside me Mrs Phil sleeps on the other side).

[rhancock]

This thread is useless without pictures!

In fact, maybe we should have a competition! Like the shed comp in AWR! I'll throw in a set of used sheets as a prize. I'll even wash them first - although they'll have to be bundled up to fit in a post bag, not folded.

[Phil Spencer]

T
I'll throw in a set of used sheets as a prize. - although they'll have to be bundled up to fit in a post bag, not folded.

EEWW!!:oo:

[Phil Spencer]

I have just found out that my five year old Grandson likes making the beds (must run in the blood) he gets realy up set when his elder brother won't get out of bed so he can make it.

What would be the right age to introduce him to the dark art of folding sheets?:D

[AlexS]

I have just found out that my five year old Grandson likes making the beds (must run in the blood) he gets realy up set when his elder brother won't get out of bed so he can make it.

What would be the right age to introduce him to the dark art of folding sheets?:D
About the same age as you teach him to cook.