Fitted Sheet Tutorial-Real Simple Tip of the Week

Okay, are you ready? Get your fitted sheet that you have wadded up into a ball in your linen closet and get ready to fold that sucka!



Turn the ugly side of your fitted sheet facing outward. Put your hands in the corners with the sheet being as long as you can make it.


Fold ugly side to ugly side, so that when you turn the sheet, the pretty side is now facing out and the ugly side is tucked inside the sheet.

Lay the sheet on the table, with the corners tucked inside one another. Press the sheet down so that it become a little more flat. Square the bottom corners.



Then fold the sheet into thirds. Bring your left side of the sheet to the middle of the sheet. Then bring the right side of the sheet to the middle.



Turn the sheet so that instead of the middle line going vertically, it now lines up horizontally. Fold the bottom of the sheet to the middle. Then fold the top of the sheet over your previous fold so that now it look like a letter.




Fold the "letter" like a "book." Bring the left side to the middle. Bring the right side the middle.


Fold the book in on itself.

You have now folded a fitted sheet!

I used a twin sheet in this example, but a queen size sheet will do just the same, it will just look bigger!

Give a big hand to Esther, my assistant! She was awake while I was trying to pull this off!

Sorry the picture kind of stink, the lighting in our house is terrible and it makes for bad pictures!