Off and On Topic-Friend and storage and sewing

Would you just go sit 'over there' and let me talk to Bert? The fastest way to do bedding is to wash, dry and put back on whatever you took off. No folding, no storage. If that's not the plan, here's how I 'do' bedding. I fold the fitted sheet as well as I can without making it a really big deal. I fold the flat sheet pretty much neatly so that I can wrap it around the fitted sheet. I fold the pillow cases length-wise and slip them into the process of wrapping around with the flat sheet. Each bundle is complete. When we first lived here (since we'd never had a real linen closet) I even went so far as to label the shelves as to double, single, etc. My favorite trick for the linen closet is to save soap wrappers and boxes and put them here and there in the closet. Keeps the closet smelling just 'good'. Not Gag a Goat perfumey or nose-burning freebreeze, simply nice. Steven is very blessed to have you. He knows that. Polly

Well Polly, that sounds like a really good way to fold things up too. But, he used to wash and put right back on but that has changed and here's why. We have regular cotten sheets for in the summer and warmer weather and flannel sheets for in the winter. On top of that, he's decided that we need a dark maroon plaid and a plain lighter leaf green for in the summer and a dark maroon plaid and cream with various color sprigly twigs for the winter sheets. Yes, four set of sheets for our bed and he does like to rotate so a folding method/combining method is needed.

We do have our little habits don't we. I do like the idea of the wrappers and boxes though. I'll have to start doing that.

Steven Alaska

I have masses of spare bedding for an almost infinite combination of bed/sleeping arrangements. If I had room, I'd go for the pillowcase option. But I don't. I go fopr the greatest packing density. Sheets and pillowcases cause no problem, but it's all those duvets and pillowcases that I have trouble with... I need to keep them dry, and dust and moth free, and at the moment I have no cupboard for them so they live in the loft. I use these lovely vacuum bags I found. One under blanket, one duvet, two pillows (or four for the double bed sets) gets squished into the bags and TAMED! :D

You are so lucky. He sounds like a much more organized 'housewife' than me!

Kate, I think, like me, you could do with a wife! I wonder what DH would say......

Lizzy

OT part 1 - yeah for small steps forward. That is a good thing! OT part 2 - that's how I have folded sheet sets for years, it is really convenient to grab a pillowwcase with the matching/sized components OnT - sometimes as I rootle through I put fabrics together for a project. Except it may be a while, and I decide to use a choice in something else. Then I may have to pull something else to replace it, or remember to put a note in there that packet is not really ready. I am happy enough to have my fabrics sorted by color families/novelties/ southwest/batiks.

G> Off Topic part 1

I cannot bring myself to throw away those wonderful clear plastic, zippered pouches that sheets, blankets, curtains, and other goodies are sold in, and have all of mine zipped up in a HUGE one that a king- sized feather bed came in! I keep them all, no matter what size, and keep using them until the zipper breaks or the seams give way or the plastic gets so brittle it splits. I use them for yarns in storage, for yarns being used in a current project, for fabrics, for quilt blocks for quilts-in-progress, for small embroidery projects, and even for tatting. I hope that whoever invented them became a millionaire, because she -- I presume it was a woman! -- has saved masses of fabrics, yarns, floss, and threads and has kept so many of us from losing our minds.

Zip loc brand has large bags now too. These are great for the storage of soft squishy stuff!

Nana