Have I mentioned lately how much I adore ironed - and ironing - sheets?
It's so satisfying to smooth away those wrinkles. To smell the scent of lily of the valley rising from your hot sheets all because you tucked them away in the linen closet last time with a floral sachet. To see a nice, neat stack of sharply creased sheets and pillowcases ready to be put away until the next time you use them on the bed.
DISCLAIMER: I still haven't gotten the trick of ironing fitted sheets. They're still a fairly wrinkly mess by the time I put them away. (My linen closet shrieks when it sees 'em!) Maybe it's time to return to using nothing but flat sheets again. Maybe these new-fangled fitted sheets aren't worth it...
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Hi Jitterbug,
Found you via The Paris Apartment~~I just read your cleaning list in the side bar and I'm exhausted! I enjoy the process of ironing but I never seem to do it, until I hear "I don't have a shirt to wear" . . .:)
Michelle
I don't like fitted sheets and just use two flat ones.
I also stick to just flat sheets!
I don't much like ironing sheets, but when I was growing up my mother had a mangle and sleeping on sheets run through that mangle was a dream.
Hairball and prairieknitter, I had no idea there were people out there still using flat sheets only! That's so '40s!!! Is it hard to keep the bottom sheet from becoming untucked - or does it stay in place pretty well?
Jeanne, it seems like I've tried every way from Sunday to fold and iron the fitted sheets --- they just aren't as satisfying to iron and they'll never fold up as neatly as the flat sheets do. I think I've gotten them about a neat as I'm gonna be able to!
Michelle, sorry to have tired you out! What's truly freaky about the routine in the sidebar that's not finished yet. I have so much to add. :) Ironing used to be something I'd never do until I was getting ready to wear something. I kinda like getting it all out of the way at once. It's nice to forget about ironing for several days.
Shay, I'm going to have to confess that I don't know what a mangle looks like. Does it work like one of those ironers you could sit down at and run your flatwork through?
I have a confession. I have never ironed a sheet. But I love how clean sheets feel so much that I think ironing them would just make it that much better. I may try this soon.
I like the idea of using non-fitted sheets. They seem to be more trouble than they're worth. And, is it just me, or do they seem to not fit quiiiite right?
I was excited to see you also adore lily of the valley. I have been trying to find more of the lily of the valley drawer liners, what brand or where do you find yours? It is one of my favorite flowers and they are planted all over the place in my yard, they smell lovely. My friend gave me a cologne of this scent this past xmas and I ADORE it. I always wear it with my channel no 5 and it really has such a wonderful vintage scent. It makes me think of my grandmother.
50s gal, I wish I could think of the brand. It's just a paper sachet, but the scent has been nice and fresh for more than a year now. Lily of the valley is a favorite, but lilac's even better!
Bonjour Madame, I had never ironed any sheets until about a month ago! I don't know that they necessarily feel any better, but they sure look prettier in my linen cabinet!!!
Emer, it's kind of a crap shoot, isn't it? Sometimes they fit pretty well, sometimes they're all baggy at the corners... BTW, how did your shoot go?
Sorry, but I think fitted sheets are wonderful. Having grown up having to use flat sheets, I refuse to go back. One thing that I have noticed is that the fitted sheets with the diagonal corner seams don't seem to fit as well as the straight cornered ones.
In our family (including the Grandmas and Aunts), the only part of the sheet that was ironed was the wide band at the top. Sheets were hung on the line so tight that a wrinkle couldn't form. I learned to iron doing this and ironing pillowcases and handkercheifs.
Oh, are your sheets 100% cotton? Are you sprinkling them and rolling them before ironing them?
"Is it hard to keep the bottom sheet from becoming untucked - or does it stay in place pretty well?"
Well, my situation is kinda unique in that the bed frame we are using is leftover from when I had a waterbed. My memory foam mattress fits down inside much like the old waterbed bladder did. (Hope that makes sense!) I got fed up with those "special" waterbed sheet sets and one day I went and bought some queen size flat sheets and used those instead. When we got our new mattress, I just kept using them like I did on the waterbed.
Hopefully prairieknitter01 uses hers on a regular bed and can share how it works in her home.
You could do a test run to see if you like it. Just take the flat sheets from two sets of sheets and make up your bed and see how it works for you.
Good luck!
I am so with you on this, I LOVE ironing bed sheets...I was actually thinking about this earlier, which is weird. Your blog is SO GREAT!
"Sheets were hung on the line so tight that a wrinkle couldn't form."
That is some serious drying technique... You've conjured up quite a fearsome image of your Grandmas and Aunts, Packrat! I have three sets of sheets right now. Two are a cotton/polyester blend, and one is 100% cotton. The cotton/poly sheets are m.u.c.h. easier to iron. The 100% cotton are not quite as satisfying a job. I don't do any sprinkling (didn't want to create any extra work for myself), but I do use a steam iron.
Di, welcome to my blog! I've always been a bit of a perfectionist in some aspects of life (though never in housekeeping)... this usually trips me up, but it does make ironing sheets very rewarding. There's nothing like being able to press every wrinkle into oblivion and fold a crisp, satiny-smooth sheet up neatly for storage. Those little stacks of pressed sheets and pillowcases give me such a thrill!
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