Does your bed have sheets & blankets instead of a duvet?

susank

I have a wool duvet and its warmer and nicer than any blankets I remember having - its antidust mite also and I have a wool pillow and a wool mattress cover - all natural stuff.

Ladyhawk

It's got to be duvets all the way. I agree with the above poster about washing duvets though. I keep meaning to take mine to the laundromat as it is too big to fit into my washing machine.

Spendless

carolinejane wrote: »

not sure I could ever go back to sheets and blankets, always find them awkward to sleep under when in a hotel, they don't seem to move with me like a quilt does

Same here. When I've experienced sheets and blankets I feel they are either too tight and you're trapped in or they fall off during the night. There seems to be no happy medium. I obviously felt like this as a child because I asked for a continental quilt as they were then known for my 14th birthday present.:D My mother always used to make up the bed in exactly the same way though with sheets and blankets and put a duvet on top??????

Sorry there's a few OS things from my childhood that can stay there and these are one of them.

The_Thrilla

I remember the "continental quilts" when they first came to Britain c.1970. I had encountered them before on a school trip to Denmark, where they were used long before they came here. In Denmark it is called a dyne, which means "down". (down as in feathers, not direction.) Somehow it picked up a French name. I've used a dyne/duvet since the early 1970s, and the old bedclothes seem so strange if I am staying in someone else's house or in an hotel. When first climbing into bed the bedclothes are like a straitjacket. If it is very cold in winter, I will use a sleeping bag and put the duvet over it.

Paulie'sGirl

Hi all,

We've got a sheet or an empty duvet cover on the bed at the moment, its very warm here. (Sheet for me, duvet cover for OH, he's not as hardy as me!)

The rest of the year we have a duvet. I have trouble, as I like the weight of lots of duvet on me, but I'm always too hot. Anyone got a solution to this?

PGxx

Rowan9

Yes, I remember them being called continental quilts and then we called them downies. Is that a Scottish thing?

SallyForth_2

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

Hi all,


The rest of the year we have a duvet. I have trouble, as I like the weight of lots of duvet on me, but I'm always too hot. Anyone got a solution to this?

PGxx

Get yourself one of those very thin duvets, and a cotton blanket or throw the same size. Fasten them together and place inside your duvet cover.


I am currently on a cotton blanket inside a duvet cover, because it's so stickly at night at the moment. Otherwise I prefer a duvet during the winter.

I also wash my feather duvets and pillows in the washing machine (I have a large drum) and put them out on very sunny days to dry out. Then just fluff them out again.

dobefan

susank wrote: »

I have a wool duvet and its warmer and nicer than any blankets I remember having - its antidust mite also and I have a wool pillow and a wool mattress cover - all natural stuff.

i'm looking at getting a wool duvet, but i'm confused as to which i should buy! theres a huge difference in prices! and i don't want to be too warm this summer, nor cold next winter... any helpful advice will be appreciated. tia

zarazara

my bed has a top sheet , a patchwork quilt, a duvet and a blanket if its very cold.

kezlou

Right now on my bed we have a very thick king size duvet and two thick blankets over it.

Too cold for just a duvet at the mo.