Washing quilts

grastgirl

How often do you wash quilts and pillows (not linen)? And how do you do it? I'm planning on changing to our winter quilt next week and thinking it should be washed before I do, but not sure how as we have a small machine (might be OK for summer quilt but not winter)?

Caterina

In late spring/early summer, I choose a sunny day, take my kingsize quilt to the local laundrette which has a large machine and then I use the tumble drier until it is just damp, then take it back home and hang in in the sun until dry.

I wash pillows one at a time in the washing machine and let them air dry in the sun, too.

dawn_rose

i shoved my king size in the bath then put it on the lne to dry on a very hot sunny day.

laurel7172

When I decide it needs doing. We have no local launderette, and my duvet didn't dry clean, so last summer I dumped it in the bath, stomped on it (soaked, it was too heavy to lift and scrub) for an hour or so in total, including rinsing, and eventually manhandled it out into the garden to spend three days drying across the garden chairs.

It did it no good at all-the filling sort of broke up inside, though it was still functional, now clean and GEFJM (good enough for just me). However, when the cat blessed it with a spectacular vomiting session a couple of weeks ago, I gave up. Wrong time of year to dry it, too much effort to have it fail...

grastgirl

Looks like I'll be doing it down the lauderette then. Any good ideas for what to do with extra quilts, would charity shops take them or is there a better place to donate them to?

princess_loki

grastgirl wrote: »

Looks like I'll be doing it down the lauderette then. Any good ideas for what to do with extra quilts, would charity shops take them or is there a better place to donate them to?

our local tip has a big bin for 'fabrics' these all get washed and recycled - i put the cat wee quilt in there!!!

princess_loki

grastgirl wrote: »

Looks like I'll be doing it down the lauderette then. Any good ideas for what to do with extra quilts, would charity shops take them or is there a better place to donate them to?

unless they are guaranteed clean i don't think a charity shop could sell them. you could offer them on freegle or to an animal charity.

another idea is to make the filling into cushions - very cheap if you can sew!

clutterydrawer

I don't unless one of my rabbits has piddled on it.

You can wash them in the bath though - works well and is great exercise and surprisingly fun!

kacie

Whenever I thinks it needs it, pillows get washed every few months

Tabatha_Kitten

Dry cleaners picked up and delivered back my king size duvet for £18.
At first I thought this was a bit expensive but when I considered the other option was to drive 12 miles to my nearest laundrette and sit and wait best part of 2 hours to wash and tumble it I changed my mind.
Mine is goose down so I want to look after it but when you can buy a king sized duvet for around £12 these days it probably makes more sense to chuck out and buy new.

marmalize

soz...not very money saving:eek:....i buy a new one (king size £9.99 at home bargains and various other stores):D