How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

Created by Martha Stewart
Oprah.com | July 31, 2002

Everybody knows how difficult it is to fold a fitted sheet without unsightly bunching at the corners. Martha Stewart offers simple steps to folding a fitted sheet into a perfect rectangle.

Hold the sheet widthwise and point your index fingers into the corners of the sheet.
Bring your fingertips together and match them exactly.
Turn one of the sheet corners over the other.
Put the sheet on a flat surface.
Turn the corners on the bottom over.
Fold the sheet into a rectangle.
Continue to fold until the sheet is the size you want it to be.

Printed from Oprah.com on Friday, February 10, 2012