How to Fold a Fitted Sheet
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I am not a cleanie by nature. But, I love to have a clean house. It frees me up to do the things that I do love. However, laundry is one of the household tasks I actually enjoy. Yeah, call me crazy. There is something therapeutic about seeing a mess of stinky Boy clothes transformed into nice neat stacks. Even if the nice neat stacks last about 32 seconds.
A couple things that my mom taught me many moons ago about laundry:
- Starched and ironed pillowcases feel divine.
- It’s better to match socks as they come through the dryer than to let them pile up in number until they fill a duffle bag that could weigh down the brawniest of seamen. Yeah, you make me laugh, Mom.
- Folding fitted sheets is not only easy, but makes your cupboards look so much nicer.
In case you never learned how to fold a fitted sheet, here’s my brief tutorial.
I used a crib sheet in this example, but if you need to see it larger than a baby bed, let me know and me and my trusty camera man will go back to work.
This works for me. How about you?
thank you SO much for that video- it’s perfect! fitted sheets are always such a hassle, and they are THE most unruly looking things in my linen closet, until now! I just did some laundry, and now I get to put your tutorial to practice 😀
I learned ‘towel 101’ years ago. I still can’t do fitted sheets after all the lessons I’ve seen and read.
As far as laundry day, I put all the clean socks in the basket and bring it out of the laundry room for sorting&matching. Matching for me means amount of wear and likely life left. If I put the ones with worn spots (Not quite holes) together, they’ll likely ‘pop’ at the same time. Better that than having a good sock with a bad one when you’re away for the day.
(I’m old enough to remember ‘darning eggs’ or using potatoes, but “Darn” if I even learned the trick.)
Wow! Never knew there was a special way to do that- can’t wait to try it! Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for this tutorial!
I was taught once and can easily translate my skills to a crib sheet because it is not bulky. But standard size sheets end up in balls in our house. Would you mind doing this again on a queen sized sheet? I think I would feel so accomplished if I could actually master this task. Thanks so much!!
I fold my sheets, almost exactly the same way. The only difference is I stack all four corners on my right hand instead of putting one side on my left hand, and then putting them together, as you so wonderfully demonstrated. My mom taught me to fold my sheets like that when I was a little girl! The funny thing, is my MIL never learned to fold her fitted sheets, so she keeps asking me to fold her sheets for her! She has asked me to teach her my method, but she can’t quite seem to master it. (She is 84) Maybe your video would help her! 🙂 thanks for the practical encouragement!
I’ve never known how to do that in all my 39 years! Everything else about laundry I love (except getting out hot chocolate stains that always appear on my 5-year-olds shirts).
Thanks. That is exactly how I fold my fitted sheets too! My 1st step-mother use to also have me fold the flat sheet so I could basically wrap it around the fitted one with the pillowcase(s) in the middle. Sort of like a sandwich cause then everything was together and when you pulled it out you were less likely to drop the pillowcase(s).
I saw this done on the original Martha Stewart show many years ago and thought it was a GREAT idea. I’ve been folding fitted sheets like this ever sense – and even taught my mom how to do it after she saw how neat my sheet sets were. So glad to see someone else is passing this on as well! Blessings!
@Carrie,
Couldn’t let it go – “since” NOT “sense”! 🙂
This was shown to me in MOPS 3 years ago and they went so fast that I forgot how to get past the first step. Thank you so much for putting it on video, so now I can watch whenever I forget 🙂 If you ever have time I would love to see a queen size demo. I can usually mange the crib sheets, but it is a whole different ball game when I have to wrestle all the excess fabric. I usually end up standing on a chair, even though I am pretty tall, and my arms are exhausted by the time I am done. The sheet usually ends up in a rumpled pile 🙂
What a great tutorial! I’ve never seen it done before and have never been able to do it myself. They just get tossed onto the shelf.