How To Fold Fitted Sheets the Easy Way // Hassle Free Hack

when it comes to folding fitted sheets it can be kind of a nightmare if you're like me and you want it to be folded nice and neat and look nice on your linen closet shelf i have tried several different methods over the years and it always ends up just being some kind of wad underneath my fitted sheet i'm jan howe from umakeitsimple.com and in today's tutorial i'm going to show you how to fold fitted sheets the easy way it's a simple hassle free hack that i think you're really going to like let me show you how it's done [Music] this is a king size sheet that i'm going to be folding so you can get an idea how even the largest fitted sheet is doable to fold this way stay with me for the whole video because i'm going to show you how to fold smaller size sheets and what it looks like i like to use i like to fold it on my bed just so i have a flat surface start with your sheet wrong side facing up on your bed or a table locate the long edge or the side of the sheet now some sheets will have that indicator label on it and some won't it doesn't matter just find the long side of the sheet with the wrong side facing up take your hand find the first corner pocket seam on that top side and you can see this has elastic on it not all sheets will have elastic i'm going to find that other side pocket seam and stick my hand in bring the seams together line up the seams and then flip that over i'm going to follow the elastic or the edge down that basically folds the sheet in half now i still have my hand in that pocket here i'm going to find the other pocket seams and stick my hand inside of that one i'll bring those together again and flip it over so now that we have all four of those pocket seams lined up i like to just take it and give it a shake and then take these two edges line up the ends and just give it a shake then i'm going to flip it over onto my bed or table and you can see that i have two the two folds here and the folded edge here to get this nice and straight i'm going to hold these two ends and pull it out so this gives a nice folded edge and here are all my corner pockets right here i'm just going to smooth it out stick my hand back in those corner pockets and let this top edge fold over what we're trying to go for is this right angle so my corner pockets are going to be pointing up at the edge and then i'll just let these fold in and that is what it will look like so i have the square edge and this kind of a c-shaped here then i'm going to fold this edge over about a third of the way smooth that out and fold the other side over i like to flip it sideways fold that fluff end over first i'm going to fold it in quarters take your flat sheet put it on top and you have two nicely folded sheets instead of a big wad on the bottom now wasn't that easy and look how nice they look on your linen closet shelves that bottom sheet is just about as flat as that top sheet wasn't that hard simple to do now let me show you what it looks like with this sheet this is a full size sheet i'm going to find my side my long side the wrong sides facing up obviously stick your hand in so the seam allowance is showing on that pocket find the other pocket seam bring those together line them up fold one over the top just take your fingers and so it comes to a point and then pull out and then follow your hand down to find the other two pocket seams stick your hand in make it come to a point and then so it's folded in half bring those points together line up the seams fold it over the top again so now i have my two folds and line these up give it a shake flip it over so those bottom folds are on the on the bottom hold on to those edges smooth out and give it a shake remember we're trying to go for that square edge here stick my hand back into that pocket allow these sides to fold up so it's basically a square shape there see that so we've got a lot of bunched up going on don't worry about it remember we're going to fold that over a third and the other side over the sideways smooth it out there you have your full-size sheet pulled nicely crazy good this is nice isn't it now i'm going to demonstrate on a single size sheet and you can see how different it is so i'm locating my long side the wrong side of the sheet is facing up stick your hand in those quarter pockets look how much shorter they are [Music] you'll get so this is just second nature just takes a little practice i hope you found that helpful make sure you check out my video on how to put on a duvet cover the easy way i'll put the link in the description below thanks for watching if you found that helpful make sure you give it a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to the channel make sure you do that have a wonderful day and whatever you do choose to make it simple we'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Jan Howell

Views: 98,639

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Id: i5U-kqcB11g

Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 20 2022