Martha Stewart's Amazing T-Shirt Folding Technique

Today was the premiere of Martha, and her very first guest was Marcia Cross, whose Desperate Housewives character Bree Van de Kamp is largely thought to be a Martha sendup. But what everyone is talking about is Martha's miraculous T-Shirt folding technique:

She wowed Cross, and surely viewers, with a technique for folding T-shirts. As simple as can be (though impossible to put into words), it could have been the most edifying 60 seconds of TV in ages.

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I missed the show (some days I really resent the fact that God didn't make me a stay-at-home mom), but luckily her website offers a handy visual guide. Click to enlarge, and pay particular attention to the crucial Step (5):

 

Comments

[Pavel]

Actually, Martha almost certainly got that technique from a Japanese video that's been floating around the blogosphere for some time now. See, for example, my own blog post on it, at http://www.keltis.us/blog/archives/2005/05/folding_tshirts.html

It certainly is quite a cool technique, but it has some real drawbacks, as I discussed in my blog.

[Aman]

I swear by this technique. And it was most certainly stolen by Martha from that Japanese video.