Big Sheets

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Big Sheets
Topic Started: Mar 13 2015, 04:33 AM (474 Views)
Trotsky	Mar 13 2015, 04:33 AM Post #1
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I'm sure everyone has noticed how fitted sheets have become elephantine these days. Bob has an old Beautyrest (Xtra Long Twin) that is only 7 inches thick. I have a much newer full that is about a foot thick. But fitted sheets for either are preposterous. With the twin, we have just stopped buying new sheets because the mattress spring combo is getting ready for the trash but my bed needs new sheets...some are threadbare and go back 40 years. Problem is that all sheets today are thick enough to cover a COFFIN. I tried one nice percale bottom and it really is just a couple inches away from being able to fit both mattress AND spring. On the matress it is at least 5 inches too big and this all hangy unless it is tucked all the way round. But then that defeats the purpose of a fitted sheet...might as well use a flat. There are a couple places online that specialize in sheets for narrow mattreses but they want like $100 for just one sheet, not even a set. So question: Has anyone had luck sewing tucks into these immense fitted sheets so they fit something less than a 20 inch thick mattress? Any tips? I know some people use those mattress suspenders but my experience with them is that they tend to tear the sheets...don't want them. We will soon have to dump Bob's bed and won't go Xtra Long again so his will be thick, but my mattress is wonderful. relatively new, and I would like it to be my last. So I need to get some new full fitted sheet sets THAT FIT (or that I can make fit.) What is a "deep pocket" sheet????? Does that mean "super-thick?" Edited by Trotsky, Mar 13 2015, 04:40 AM.



Darcie	Mar 13 2015, 04:39 AM Post #2
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	I found that some sheets tell you how thick a mattress they will fit. Mine is about 14" I do have a large set and it just seems to go under the mattress more. Because my bed is electric and I raise the head I do use the suspender, have for years and I never have had a sheet tear.



angora	Mar 13 2015, 04:42 AM Post #3
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	The deep pocket sheet has the corners of the fitted sheet extra deep so as to fit the thicker mattress. If I had too much trouble finding fitted sheets that fit I'd just buy 2 flat sheet a la carte and go back to the good old way of sheeting. :)



FuzzyO	Mar 13 2015, 05:36 AM Post #4
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1-BEST-QUALITY-FULL-FITTED-SHEET-SIZE-54X80-12-T180-PERCALE-DEEP-POCKET-/261543718344?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ce5386dc8



wildie	Mar 13 2015, 09:09 AM Post #5
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	I sleep on a water bed, due to deteriating disk disease. When I moved to the place at the lake, the king size was to big for the room, so I cut the bed down to queen size. Had several fitted sheets that were now, too large. So, with the assistance of my wife, we cut a strip about 6" wide, out of the middle and sewed the sheets back together again. There was a seam down the middle, but it was never noticable. Fitted water bed sheets were expensive at the time, and this saved a bundle.



agate	Mar 13 2015, 09:45 AM Post #6
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	I have trouble finding the deep pocket sheets to fit my mattress. I have trouble pulling them over the mattress as my fingers won't do it.



sooty	Mar 13 2015, 11:12 AM Post #7
Blue Star Member Posts: 1,932 Group: Moderator Member #395 Joined: September 17, 2006	Choose the size closest to the depth of your mattress. Put it on the bed. If there is still a lot of fabric, put on inside out and pin a tuck around the sides, just below the top of the mattress. Stitch the seam, turn the right way and use. It worked for me. Alternate is just buy top sheets and tuck in. I am using sheets from a cousin, now in a nursing home and it's mainly the fitted bottoms that have thinned or torn but the tops and pillow cases are ok.



Trotsky	Mar 15 2015, 03:13 AM Post #8
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Thanks sooty. I'll try the inside out tuck it out on my largest fitted sheet. But I can see that getting the last corner of the bed in is going to take some strong arming. But no way I will ever deal with a flat bottom sheet again. Fitted sheets are a godsend to those who want to make beds regularly. edit: Took a good look at that sheet again and I will just have to live with it. In addition to having 20 inch sides, the corner seams run at a 45 degree angle to vertical???? Why, I don't know. And from corner to corner the sheet itself, ignoring the sides, looks about 5 inches too big for the bed. Bob swears it was a Full when he bought it, but it really looks halfway between a Full and a Queen. I'd toss it but it has a gazillion stiches per inch and feels like, pardon my Barbra Streisand, BUTTAH! Way too much work. Edited by Trotsky, Mar 15 2015, 03:42 AM.



Darcie	Mar 15 2015, 03:15 AM Post #9
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Trotsky Mar 15 2015, 03:13 AM Thanks sooty. I'll try the inside out tuck it out on my largest fitted sheet. But I can see that getting the last corner of the bed in is going to take some strong arming. But no way I will ever deal with a flat bottom sheet again. Fitted sheets are a godsend to those who want to make beds regularly. So true, I will never use a flat sheet on the bottom again. I bless the person who invented fitted sheets.



angora	Mar 15 2015, 04:01 AM Post #10
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	If you get a king size flat sheet for the bottom of a queen size bed, make it with hospital corners, you can make it once a week as normal and it wont come undone and will be like a fitted sheet. My parents owned a summer resort in the 70s and that's the way we worked it. :)



Deleted User	Mar 1 2016, 01:11 AM Post #11
Deleted User	Buy the cheapest sheets you can find. Wash them in hot water and dry in the dryer. They will fit perfectly. I had the same problem. I used to buy good quality sheets but I like my sheet smooth and fitting perfectly.
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blizzard	Mar 2 2016, 02:52 AM Post #12
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	Mouse, do you iron your sheets? When I told my sister that we had to do so for our condo guests she thought I was going too far. I stood by my expectation and we did receive rave reviews for everything including the bedding. I do not iron my own sheets but would certainly appreciate it if someone did for me. I believe I opted the not have our Ayi do them when I lived in Shanghai, with three children at home I had more important chores that needed doing. I miss having someone to help with the household.



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