How to Fix Fitted Elastic Sheets

Waking up with your favorite fitted sheet twisted around your legs is no reason to throw it away. You don't need to be a seamstress to repair your sheet. Follow a few simple steps using basic sewing implements and you will be ready, once again, to drift off to dreamland on the fitted sheet of your choice.

1/4-inch elastic, 1 1/3 yards of
Scissors
Straight pins
Sewing machine
Measuring tape
Fabric pen

Instructions

- 1
  Cut the elastic into four equal lengths of 1 foot each.
- 2
  Lay your fitted sheet out with the bottom side up.
- 3
  Lay the center of one piece of elastic at the center of one of the corners--generally where the seam is sewn--and affix with a straight pin.
- 4
  Measure 6 inches out from the corner of the sheet and mark with a fabric pen. Stretch the elastic out toward the pen mark so that it goes 3 inches beyond. Secure elastic with a straight pin at the point of the pen mark and two places between the pen mark and corner of the sheet. Repeat this step for the other side of the corner.
- 5
  
  Have necessary supplies ready.
  
  Starting at one end, sew the elastic to the sheet. Back-stitch a few times at each end to secure the elastic. Trim off the excess elastic and remove all pins.
- 6
  Repeat the process for remaining three corners.

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