How to make hospital corners: Youtube vid

MSE_Jenny

In case anyone else has been having trouble making their flat bad sheets nice and straight, I found this video very helpful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70QzkJsWTg&feature=related

katholicos

That was very interesting, i've wondered about how to do hospital corners and now i know. Thanks for posting.

Pink.

I was trained how to make hospital corners over twenty years ago to this day it irritates me to see a badly folded corner on a bed, but even I am not quite as careful as that guy...I think the kids would leave home if I checked their corners with a pieces of paper! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Seriously though, it's a very quick and easy thing to do if you practice a bit and makes a big difference to how the bed looks.

Pink

thriftlady_2

Forget that for a game of soldiers!:p Fitted sheets are the way to go. That way the kids can make their own beds:)

Penelope_Penguin

I can feel a poll coming on - how many people use flat sheets and how many fitted :think:

My dad was one of the last to do National Service, and taught me hospital corners when I was a girl :T Great skill, and he showed me how to make a bed with bottom sheet, top sheet, blankets, eiderdown, etc, etc. For some reason I now use duvets (though he called the Continental Quilts until the day he died ) and fitted sheets

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

I was taught how to do hospital corners too and very satisfying they are to do. But life's too short for all that, I'd rather be making cake

wssla00

I'd rather eat a cake

BitterAndTwisted

My sister and I were sent off to boarding school (not a terribly good one, alas) at the ages of 7 & 9 and we had to make our own beds with hospital corners and they were very closely inspected to make sure they were always just right. We still make our beds the same way out of habit. I must say it does irk me to see scruffy corners on a bed even now 40-odd years later AND the pillow-case openings must face away from the door as well

valk_scot

Bet his mum's proud of him though!

aliadds

I was taught to do 'hospital corners' when I was in the Red Cross in the early 70's. I also remember being taught to have the pillow openings away from the door, and although I use fitted sheets today, I still turn the pillowcase open end away from the door!:o

Whistling_Gypsy

Another product of boarding school bed making - though they were known as 'Envelope Corners' at my school.

Have tried fitted sheets - hate the beggars. They 'ride up' off the corners in my experience, and are a nightmare to fold neatly

It's 36 years :eek: since I was taught how to make a bed and I still do it now too. Can't do it any other way and it only takes seconds to fold the corners nicely.

Damn - I guess those Nuns did manage to teach me something after all!!:rotfl::rotfl: