Saturday, November 20, 2010

Making Fitted Sheets Fit Again

Anna at Pleasant View said her pillowcases wear out.  In this house, the fitted sheets lose their stretchy elastic before anything else and get turned into quilts and caftans; I have lots of orphan pillowcases.  However, I think I have figured out a way to prolong the life of fitted sheets with dead elastic. 


Can you see how I'm illustrating it? I measured 5" down either side of each corner seam. Then I connected those two spots with a 2.5" piece of elastic. Now there's a kind of "hood" that slips over the corner of the mattress. It took me about 10 minutes to fix that sheet.



And when I looked up from the clothesline, I saw the scarlet bush. Flaming beautiful. I've lived in this house eight years and I don't remember noticing this bush before. I want to look around more carefully, with more appreciation.


 

9 comments:

Unknown said...

That is such a great idea! Thankx for sharing it! Most of our old sheets become slips and P.J.s etc. I used sheets to back the boy's quilts too...but there are some sheets that are just perfect for a certain room - now I can prolong their life : )

kim said...

Sometimes we see things so often we forget to really look at them, beautiful bush, such an intense shade.

Good tip about the fitted sheets.....I hate when fitted sheets go walk-about when you're trying to get your beauty sleep.
florrie x

Christian - Modobject@Home said...

The bush is gorgeous! And I like your practical, simple fix for fitted sheets.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful tip! I have a corner sliding up over the bed as I type this. Would it wake the Hubs, do you think, if I got out my needle and thread to fix it?

Helen Evans said...

Every human being now surely feel the cotton based household into their surroundings chores and they really felt very delighted when they having their all uses into healthy cotton and good fabrics as like Pillowcases.

nancymalida said...

Good to see this great idea sharing with us thank you. it's really easy to fit with mattress and easy to remove it. nice thinking

Unknown said...

Nice post...
Fitted Sheets

Anonymous said...

I wonder if this would work to make flat sheets into fitted ones? They never seem to make the sheets actually large enough any more. I have to fight like a wrestler to get them on the mattress and we don't have those deep, deep mattresses. They are like 5inches deep!!! I hate sheet makers these days.

Farah said...

How can sheets fit twin and twin xlong?
I bought a bed set for college that says it fits twin and twin xlong beds. How can a fitted sheets fit both sizes when the beds are different lengths?