To ask how the fuck you iron your king size duvet covers?

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And fitted sheets?

I recently lost my grandmother and I have decided that I need to bloody well up my standards a bit - she had very high standards, and she's right!

I'm quite good at ironing generally, even work shirts but I just can't work out how to iron a massive duvet cover without it taking hours/being bloody difficult

I've never ironed them and never will. They look absolutely fine without ironing.

@kanteeeeee

Buy some Crease Release spray, it's not perfect but it takes two seconds and is better than creased sheets.

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I don’t. My grandmas both had very high standards too but would be fully supportive of me sacking off unnecessary ironing and doing something fun instead

I don’t

Ain't nobody got time for that! In the summer when I hang them outside they dry straight, but in the winter I just deal with my soft and wrinkly sheets out the tumble dryer!

My MIL irons hers with starch, I cannot comprehend how she considers it time well spent! I mean, I like a crisp sheet as much as the next person, but not enough to torture myself by ironing them myself.

Sorry to hear about your grandmother xxx I think her generation in general were more particular about housework, but that's possibly due to fewer women working outside the home. If I was a housewife I would probably do more ironing and apple pies too.

I also don't own an iron. Ironing bedsheets is bonkers.

You don't. Simple as that. I'm sure you can find umpteen different ways to fill your time instead of ironing (anything!) tricky things.

Exactly as Rachel has described. A lovely set of freshly-washed, ideally line-dried and ironed bedlinen is a joy. My DM was like your grandmother and she would often iron our bedlinen for us but now I do it or my DH and my DC do their own.

get a clothes steamer soo much easier than ironing !

Yes OP. Cotton bedsheets are your friend!

I don't. You could buy a steamer and use it after you've put the duvet in the cover.

I tend to fold them in four then iron or iron small section at a time

Ironing bedding seems a monumental waste of time.

I'm super house proud, and make sure the pillows and cushions on the bed are all plumped up every morning, but I would not even dream of ironing sheets (or anything)!

I don’t iron duvet covers or sheets. My mother only started doing this once she’d retired. Life’s too short for ironing duvet covers.

@RachelHasThoseInBurgundy

Fold them in half and iron one side then flip and do the other.

With fitted sheets you fold in half matching the corner seems and hook the corner over the end of the board, iron that section, flip over and hook the other corner, iron that section, then hook a corner so you have the top edge section on the board, iron, then pull the sheet towards you and iron a section at a time.

I iron for a living and this is how I get perfect results.

As a professional ironer, what kind of iron would you recommend? No iron I've ever had seems to get out stubborn creases in things like cotton shirts or bedding.

I don't iron bedding for the above reason. It takes forever and still looks a bit creased.

I have vintage linen sheets and pillow cases which I do iron, but duvet covers? Luckily they didn’t make linen duvet covers in the thirties forties and fifties which is when my stuff was produced.

I don't iron them, God no! But if I did I'd fold them and iron a bit at a time as described above.

Line dry every time.
If you must iron get someone to help you fold them precisely longways 4x, iron each side, turn out and iron again, turn out and iron again.
Almost certainly not worth the effort though!

No way am I wasting time ironing bedding.

The only thing I ever iron is shirts for work because other people see them but no one sees my bedding except me so I don’t care about that at all!

if i ever have to iron sheets which is very rare then i put them on the bed and run the iron over them and the same with the duvet

Mine are super king size and they’re folded and ironed in sections. I iron pillow cases, but not sheets.

What an absolute waste of valuable time. Spend the hours you might have spent ironing a duvet cover or sheet doing something else!

Life's too short to iron duvet covers. And many other things ...

Ironing lady here!!
Iron the right side.. Make a quarter turn. Iron the right side.. Make a quarter turn. Iron the right side. Make a quarter turn.. Iron.
All done!!
All done