Can you fold a fitted sheet?
 

This came up on a horse forum. I didn't realize there are people who actually CAN fold a fitted sheet. ...and fold it FLAT! I have done the wad/stuff for years. Someone posted a photo essay of how it is done, and it looks so easy.

Here, it has kitties in it...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/catiecake/sets/515142/

I almost can't wait to launder sheets. Almost. I'm sure I'll be able to control myself.
It really can't be that easy, can it?


The original question was how to figure out the fitted sheet for a King size bed, to put it on the matress. A Standard King is 76x80 and my California King is 76x84. The Standard is nearly square and you really can't figure out the fitted sheet unless you get it on wrong or right. Two of my sheet sets have directional fabric while the other two are solid. On the solid fitted sheets, I use a sharpie pen to mark a 'dash' line on the long-side of the sheet, at all four corners near the elastic. This mark tells me that side of the fitted sheet goes on the sides of the matress and not the ends.

Anyhow, the conversation morphed into how to best wad/stuff the fitted sheet and someone posted the above link about how to actually FOLD them. I was blown away!

hm. will look at link in a mo to see if they have a better method, but yes, I can.

Link didn't help.

No cats here.

Well, I don't think the kitties actually help. I know MINE certainly don't help. They usually think of ways to make things more difficult for me. Like laying ON the fresh, hot laundry while I randomly try to pull items out from under them.
Oh, you should SEE the looks I get when they finally end up on the carpet. Like I had just ruined their day, let alone a comfy/warm nap-spot. It sometimes makes me want to stuff them in the dryer and give them a tumble. Just for a few minutes...so they appreciate me.
Probably a good thing I never had kids...

I can do it, but I usually don't bother. Wadding them up is so much easier. Who cares if they have crinkles in them anyway?

I want to know if you have to have the cat on the bed to do it right. The pussy is in every damm picture, nearly.

In a word, NO

3 kids, 2 sheets per bed, some kids still wet in the night = many sheets.

many sheets = need to fold or they wont fit on the shelf. Otherwise I wouldn't blooming bother either.......

YOu should just get bigger shelves. ;)

I don't care about wrinkles, myself. Shoot! I figure it gets stretched out over the matress anyway, and eventually the warm body(s) will iron it out.
My problem is storage, I just don't have that much space in the linen/towel closet. My original method of wad/stuff just took up too much space.

your just padding your post count......


d'oh!

This thread will do so much better than your shitty thread jimbo

Here's How:

Slip your hand into 2 top corners of the sheet.
With one hand inside each of the top 2 corners, fold the sheet (right sides together). Slip each of the top corners into one of the bottom corners.
Lay sheet on bed or table. Arrange and fold the corners neatly. Turn in selvage edges enough to make 4 straight sides.
Fold in half, then in half again. (All four corners will be stacked together, and sheet will be in a long strip.
Then fold the long strip in half, then in half (or thirds, depending on the size of the sheet) again to make a square.
Sheet should be a compact, neat square.
Smooth and place on shelf.

Tips:

Learn how to fold sheets consistently so that they remain neat each time.
Store sheets in sets (flat, fitted, and cases) if that is how you use them.
Mark shelves with sheet sizes, or use different shelves for different size sheets.
For patterned sheets, by folding the bottom sheet inside out and the top sheet right side out, you'll be able to easily tell the difference.

Here's a good link with a video

This is how I do it.

I still don't get why anyone bothers though. Sure we can all do it, but it's amazing how tightly you can wad a sheet if you need to. ;)

Maybe you all just have too much linen.

I have two sheets for my bed - one is on it and the other is approximately folded. Even in a small room I don't need to worry about the extra few cm that would come from folding it correctly :)

There must come a point when the wadding tightly and ramming in a closet is as much effort as folding?

it seems like learning to touchtype -so complex, it's hardly worth the effort, but once you've mastered it you wonder why you ever thought the other way was easier.

Can you fold a fitted sheet?

1. (paranoid) Who told you about my sheets?
2. Depends on what it is fitted to.
3. Sure. Swan, rabbit, flower, or sailor hat?
4. Only if the grand Wizard takes it off first.

I'm with you on that one SG. I don't keep a huge pile of sheets really. A couple of changes for each of the beds, but most of them stay in the linen closet because I when I wash the sheets I tend to put the freshly washed ones back on the bed. (They smell so good)

No, it's always easier to wad than to fold. Actually, we have an add about toilet paper on telly here that stars a little boy complaining about being a folder in a family fully of scrunchers.

It's quite a funny concept. Makes you really think about your toilet habits.

The TP commercial sounds cute!

I had never thought about folding the fitted sheet. I guess it never occured to me, as I'd tried it and couldn't get it to 'go', so I'd just sort of try to fold it in 4ths and then wad/stuff it in the closet. I figured they could only be folded by the machines that folded them to fit in those tiny bags they come crammed into.
Blew me away when I saw that photo-tutorial and found I actually COULD do it.

yes, but now you know how, will you bother doing it anyway? ;)

I disagree.

yes well, that's the difference between you and me. ;)

I have to ask though, don't you think it's quicker to wad?

nah, I get all tangled up. Folding also helps free trapped underwear, so it's a twofer.

!!!

lol...don't you look in the corners for other bits and pieces?

Usually I only put my sheets and pillow cases in the washer, so I know what to look for.

wooohoooo...we're beating that shitty thread. (thanks UT)

Why do two tasks when you can do one? No need to look, you find and remove by stacking the corners. I fold as the things come out of the dryer, though -not in a nancy way laid out on the bed -that would take forever.

(30 vs 27)

Hmmm...looks like a whole lot of whoring going on over in that other shitty thread.

I think it's pretty pissweak that people have to post crap when they really have shit to say.

Of course I can fold a fitted sheet.

Is this a trick question?

And I've never seen the link you posted. Sorry. Thought everyone could do it.

Some people are foldingly challenged.

Others of us simply choose to ignore their natural talents. ;)

Oh, and can you fold waterbed sheets?

That's another two-fer. A fitted sheet sewed to a flat sheet. Plus with the CalKing mattress, they're an handful. The only real trouble comes from standing at the foot of the bed, and flinging the sheet toward the head of the bed.

What trouble is that you ask? Apparently you forgot, as I did that the sheets an the ceiling fan make a bad combination. :yikes:

Several generations of women have tried to teach me to fold fitted sheets... but I still just kinda roll 'em up and toss them in the closet. :headshake

Dazza stuck his hand in the ceiling fan the other morning when he was getting dressed for work. lol I shouldn't have laughed, but it was pretty funny, and he didn't lose any fingers. lol

I've never owned a waterbed, so I didn't know there were different types of sheets for them.

yeah...that's the way to do it choco. ;) Why worry about a folding when you can scrunch them?

I reckon the sheets are all the same. But the point of sewing two together is that there's no other way to tuck in the topsheet. The mattress is just ttooooo heavy. Water weighs a lot.

Plus, there are other things on the mattress, like mattress covers. Those aren't strictly "fitted" as much as they're flats with straps that pass under the corners of the mattress.

That's true. Most people over here put a mattress cover on ordinary mattresses also. Do they do that over there?

I got so tired of alleged waterbed sheets elasticized all the way around forever popping up from around the waterbed mattress that I only go for the attached pockets at the corners that have sleeves for anchor sticks (short lengths of CPVC vinyl piping are lightest and smooth too) which makes a deep corner-holding pocket (more than a bit like a giant bra cup) that is firmly held in place by the weight of the mattress. This or a flat sheet held in place with elastic straps with garter snaps at either end. This works the same way unless the snap unsnaps.

I use those elastic straps on the all-around elasticized sheets as a cure for their problem. The makers seem not to have considered that some waterbedders have mattress covers between sheet and mattress to keep things from going clammy or underventilated. All-around sheets don't work well with these; they never anchor well underneath.

A permanently placed X or six-ended array of straps under the mattress to clip to the sheets' edges would work with any sheet type too.

Oh yeah, I fold fitted sheets with the "pocket tuck" method, too, but not so elaborate about truing the edges. Might try that sometime.

I can't say. I have extremely limited experience with anyone else's mattress but my own.

Which begs the question, how do you know that Ali?

I knew you'd post something very detailed and pedantic in this thread UG. I have to say, the quality of your post is so much higher here than in that other shitty thread.

Ummm...I've rumpled a few sheets in my time?

The wife and I can make our waterbed squeak.

Detailed, yes. Pedantic heck no -- on the grounds that sheets are utterly unpedantic, you naughty girl!

ok...that post just made me crack up. lol Very funny.

Do you always make the bed yourself?

Yes.

As to the reasons why, I demure.

Suffice to say that it is easier for all involved. Especially since I am at considerable risk for the same injury Dazza recently suffered.

Well my advice is, don't do it! If you do happen to stick your fingers in the fan though, can you make sure you've got the camera going? I really am a sadist. ;)

You know, I can count two times in recent memory that UG has been civil to me, no, kind and friendly even.

One was when he called me naughty for accusing Cloud of telling him to shut up, and the other was when he called coincidence agreement with respect to the current version of the Pledge.

In this post, he simply ignores me.

I prefer both of these to his usual belittling, but these are still unsettling.

Does any other dwellar use so many words to say so little?

Besides myself, of course.

There are a number of others. lol

i concede to aliantha's superior post whoring abilities. i'm way out of my league here.

thankyou! I will accept your surrender gracefully.

Better luck next time mate. ;)

Shes a good whore, I am glad to be her pimp.

You want a lil lovin sugar mamma? ;)

I have a feeling I will try...but it just may wind up wad/stuffed anyways. Though the corners will all be neat and together. Surely that counts for points?

I folded a fitted sheet this past Friday. I used a very similar method to the provided instructions. I may do the pillowcase thing later.

Judging from your folding abilities...I just want to watch that....
:D

Laundry just got a lot more interesting.

I don't think the sheet folding would be all that interesting, but I do make origami cranes out of restauraunt napkins...

Exhibit A:

http://www.cellar.org/member.php?u=731