HOW do you iron sheets? I've tried and just get in such a mess, I either knock over the whole board or just get scrunched sheets with ironed in creases.
It has occured to me lately that I would actually make a damned good secretary/PA. I can type like a demon, I'm polite, I LIKE running things to a timetable and bossing people around, and I'm intelligent enough to do things off my own bat without having to be constantly supervised. But that's not the done job for someone with a science degree, half a masters, and hoping to do a PhD for fun, so I'll probably never do it.
Bloody stupid though, I'd probably be better at that than I am at acoustics ;) At least it gives me an option for when I head back to Cornwall!
Flat sheets and pillowcases are easy: section at a time. For flat sheets, lay the sheet so the part you're not ironing drapes over the flat end of the board, and the top edge is at the pointy edge. Iron a section, pull the sheet towards you, iron the next section, till you hit the edge. Turn the sheet so you iron from the other way (so the sheet is always hanging off the straight end). You'll be left with a wrinkly patch in the middle. Turn the sheet 90° and iron it, again in sections. The trick to handling big flat sheets is to pick them up 2-handed and smooth them out on the board before pressing it.
For the fitted sheet, start on a corner. Hook it onto the corner of the flat end of the board, and smooth the side along the end of the board. Iron the side that way, and rotate till you get back to the original corner. You'll have done the whole perimeter of the sheet. Now you can do the whole flat centre (be careful not to leave a wrinkly "seam"--where the top and side of the mattress would meet if it were put on the bed.
Ok, it's official: I am Martha, but less faux-WASP. And without the découpage.
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It has occured to me lately that I would actually make a damned good secretary/PA. I can type like a demon, I'm polite, I LIKE running things to a timetable and bossing people around, and I'm intelligent enough to do things off my own bat without having to be constantly supervised. But that's not the done job for someone with a science degree, half a masters, and hoping to do a PhD for fun, so I'll probably never do it.
Bloody stupid though, I'd probably be better at that than I am at acoustics ;) At least it gives me an option for when I head back to Cornwall!
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For the fitted sheet, start on a corner. Hook it onto the corner of the flat end of the board, and smooth the side along the end of the board. Iron the side that way, and rotate till you get back to the original corner. You'll have done the whole perimeter of the sheet. Now you can do the whole flat centre (be careful not to leave a wrinkly "seam"--where the top and side of the mattress would meet if it were put on the bed.
Ok, it's official: I am Martha, but less faux-WASP. And without the découpage.