The garments need to be folded tightly in order to create a Candy Drawer. The main idea behind folding T-shirts is that you try to create rectangular shapes in order to create a tight little package. Think of it as an archive drawer; you can just slide right through your options. We’re not putting the garments on top of each other, but they’re going to be stored back-to-back. So the middle of the garment is facing up.
Folding T-Shirts:
- Have your T-Shirt as flat as possible on your bed or couch, with the front neckline facing up.
- Fold one side to cover 3/4 of the T-shirt (so the side seam is now over the middle of the T-Shirt).
- Fold the sleeve back again over this folded part.
- Do the same thing with the other side. (With most T-Shirts, it means that you fold it along the side of the neckline.)
- Next, you fold the bottom part a thumb width under the top of the neckline (so it’s basically folded in half)
- Then fold it in thirds, like a letter – folding the neck down first and the bottom to cover.
And you have this mini package. You store this item with the clean folded part facing up, which is basically the middle of your T-shirts.
When you have a T-Shirt with a graphic, it could be useful to fold it the other way around. This way, the print is on the outside – and you recognize it immediately in the row of T-Shirts. So you follow exactly the same description, but you start folding with the neckline facing down.
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