Creases in Sheet Hems Dilemma (2023 Update)

Phae. I found this article about high count bedsheets that you may find informative.>

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's not going to solve your problems, but may be an explanation as to whats causing them. Since I have no idea of high your thread counts are I'm sending this as a point of information.JunoJuno

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I don't know anything about the "Company Store", but the sheets we've gotten from Land's End are excellent, no creases in hems and they feel so soft. We bought ours after my other DS and his wife were so pleased with theirs. I am in no way connected to Land's End; just a consumer who likes to get her money's worth in whatever purchases made. Emily

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

Thanks for the recommendation, Emily. I'll keep that in mind for the future. Land's End, btw, is now owned by Sears.

Phae

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

Not long ago, I bought a bolt of Springmaid percale for making pillow cases. Beautiful fabric. I got it from one of my quilt fabric sources but I cannot recall which one. It is not tubular, however.

Phae

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

And Sears is now owned by Kmart. And around and around we go....

This is from wikipedia:

Sears Holdings Corporation was formed in 2005 with the purchase of Sears, Roebuck and Company of Hoffman Estates, Illinois by Kmart Holdings Corporation of Troy, Michigan. The company operates 3,800 retail locations under the mastheads of Sears, Sears Grand, Sears Essentials, Sears Hardware, Kmart, Big Kmart, Super Kmart, The Great Indoors, Orchard Supply Hardware, and Lands' End stores.

Judie

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Judie in Penfield NY

The problem is that the sheets were hemmed offgrain. Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I've been away and my computer crashed, too. Won't be back now for another ten days.

Anyway, the only way to solve the problem is to cut off the hem at the fold and remove it completely. You'll see that the grain is off. The easiest way to get it straight is to tear a new edge, then press up a new hem, carefully following the grain of the fabric. Press 1/4 inch at the torn line, then press again the desired width of the finished hem. Sew with a stitch about 10-to-the-inch.

Teri

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gjones2938

If your sheets are not long enough to do this (I notice my vintage sheets have a good, long tuck-in, newer ones are shorter) here's a possibility. For a while, I had a set of top sheet and two pillowcases which, instead of a hem, had a cotton print band. You could probably do this, as long as you pre-shrink the new fabric by washing it in hot water and drying it in a hot dryer about three times before you add it to the existing linens.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Though extremely lightweight 100% cotton, these sheets appear to be done in a twill-like weave. You have to look really close to see that. They probably did that to achieve that allegedly high thread count. I bought them because I have a dust mite allergy. Never again! It seems the weave could very well be part of the problem.

That does seem to be what I'll have to do--- add a printed fabric band. They just don't make things like they used to. Thanks!

Phae

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

I've bought sheets that were so far off grain that this method could give you sheets that are half a yard too short.

Not recently, though. It takes decades to wear out a set of sheets made of Dharma's "scenery muslin", which was all I could find in wide cottons at the time. Nowadays, wide *linen* shows up on fabric.com now and again.

Joy Beeson

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Joy Beeson

This interests and puzzles me.

We have two sets of high thread count sheets. Both have creases in the

3-1/2" wide top hems and 1" wide bottom hems. There are also creases along the 1" side hems on one of the sheets; the other has narrow side hems, with no creases.

One set and its creases predate our front loading wm. I remember trying to steam press the creases that appeared when I first took the sheets out of their packaging and washed and dried them. The fabric is woven alternating satin and 'dull' stripes, which make it easy to see that the sheet is hemmed on grain.

In my case, this seems to leave only the combination of high thread count and wide hems as causative.

Doreen in Alabama

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Doreen Hendrix

Ah well, it just occurred to me (smacks self upside head) that the stripes only prove the sheet is hemmed on grain lengthwise; it is the cross grain that could cause creases.

Doreen in Alabama

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Doreen Hendrix

Ironing does not help.

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doodle69

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