Turning the sheets inside out (sides to middle)

bizzylizzy

I have an old sheet which has become very threadbare in the middle so I have cut it in half and hemmed the new edges. I am wondering how to sew up the middle without making a seam that is uncomfortable to lay on. Luckily I have a sewing machine!
Does anyone have any ideas?

BitterAndTwisted

Unless you unpick the sewn edges you're gong to have about eight thicknesses of fabric going down the middle. I'd unpick them and join them with a french seam.

PixieDust

Yep, I was going to say "French seam" too

SpikyHedgehog

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Unless you unpick the sewn edges you're gong to have about eight thicknesses of fabric going down the middle. I'd unpick them and join them with a french seam.

I'd also say french seam like this http://http://www.sewneau.com/how.to/french.seam.html But some of my sheets have hems at the edges and some do not.

bizzylizzy

My sheet does not have hems at the edge so I laid one edge about half an inch over the top of the other edge and sewed up each side (iykwim)
I don't know if that is a French seam but it seemed to have worked. Thank you for all your replies : )

(The link above didn't work for me)

GreyQueen

Hi, every sheet I've ever seen has a woven strip on its outer edges (the selvedge) and what I do when I sides-to-middle sheets is make sure that the selvedges are ironed flat, then overlap them by about 1 inch/ 2.5 cm and do a line of straight stitching on the sewing machine, followed by one line of zig-zag stitiching on each side, down the middle, to catch the selvedge down. So that means the join has 3 rows of stitiching IYSWIM.

It takes me just under an hour to sides-to-middle a sheet from scratch and you'll get loads more wear from it. I've slept on many a treated sheet and cannot say I have ever noticed any discomfort.

HTH

[Deleted User]

I can remember doing this by hand with my Mum on one end and me on the other we would try to meet in the middle, It was a necessity in the late 1940s as everything was still on rationing and even sheets had to last twice as long. We even once 'turned' a blanket that one of my brothers had put his foot through whilst alseep :)

Penelope_Penguin

bizzylizzy wrote: »

I have an old sheet which has become very threadbare in the middle so I have cut it in half and hemmed the new edges.

Well done on being thrifty :T As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the exisignt hread to keep ideas together