Preparing for Winter V

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Auntycaz said:

cuddlymarm said:

When we lived in static caravan in winter we would put an extra duvet under the bottom sheet. Lovely and snuggly.
I still swear by slipper boots so my ankles are kept warm.

Totally agree with this. I've always put an extra duvet under the bottom sheet. 

Me too, it started about 40 years ago when camping & now I always have a 4.5 tog duvet under me. I have however just added a fleecy mattress topper which is lovely & snuggly under my cotton sheets - i can't abide brushed or fleecy ones.

newlywed

Dug out my yarn and crochet hooks today. Going to make some more cuffs (bit like fingerless gloves but simpler) as I’m find gloves annoying and these warm the wrists and hands if your jumper sleeves are too short! 

Laura_Elsewhere

newlywed said:

Dug out my yarn and crochet hooks today. Going to make some more cuffs (bit like fingerless gloves but simpler) as I’m find gloves annoying and these warm the wrists and hands if your jumper sleeves are too short! 

I'm a big fan of knitted or crocheted tubes that just sit over the wrists, body of the hand, and make a surprising difference to how warm he person feels without getting in he way of eg typing. I've knitted rather a lot for folk! 

C_J

I had been half thinking of buying a new duvet this winter. Some of the pockets in the current goose feather and down one are looking a bit flat now and the filling has bunched up in other places, but it was an expensive one originally so it seems extravagant to just replace it. I'm wondering whether taking to a laundrette in for a service wash and dry might fluff it up again - £20 to clean and refresh it is more frugal than splashing out of a brand new one, after all.

It's a superking size so won't fit in my washing machine at home, and I'd rather pay to have it completely cleaned and dried in a day without having to drape it on the bannisters etc.

Has anyone any advice (or horror stories) about getting duvets washed, before I rush headlong into this? 

-taff

Laura_Elsewhere said:

newlywed said:

Dug out my yarn and crochet hooks today. Going to make some more cuffs (bit like fingerless gloves but simpler) as I’m find gloves annoying and these warm the wrists and hands if your jumper sleeves are too short! 

I'm a big fan of knitted or crocheted tubes that just sit over the wrists, body of the hand, and make a surprising difference to how warm he person feels without getting in he way of eg typing. I've knitted rather a lot for folk! 

I make mine with old wool jumpers and an overlocker...or cut the end off old holey socks. I've got loads of stripey ones ☺☺

Primrose

I,ve washed a 4 tog king size duvet in my washing machine.  It was a huge squeeze getting it in and a bigger one getting it out after spinning. I dried it outdoors draped over my rotary airer in warm sunshine and it dried well but it was a Ma made fibre one.

it would think paying  to have a commercially wash would be well  be worth doing.  I,m all for making the most of what we have rather than buying new especially if it was an expensive one. .  If it doesn't  work you can always perhaps cut it down and use as a sofa snug or perhaps even a mattress topper for extra warmth. 

IzzyBee

I work in a cleaners we wash and ry duvets all the time we can never get them back in the bags they come in they are put in huge dryers with dryer balls and come out big and fluffy 

newlywed

I got a collect and delivery place to wash our synthetic duvet and I am sure they dry cleaned it, even though the advert was wash. It wasn’t particularly clean looking.

Last time I took it to the laundrette for a service wash (work full time and didn’t want to sit and wait) - the result was much better and well worth it.

then we upgraded the washing machine to 9kg and I can just get the 10 tog king size in there (all seasons duvet and the 4 tog fits no problem)

Fiona236

https://ibb.co/LNwjHp5
New cat blanket being knit using 2 strands of wool. This is the 3rd one in a fortnight. You can't compare the heat of knitted to say bought fleece.

Cat news, took him to vets and they wouldn't neuter him because he's in great shape and they said he looks like someone's cat. Explained I've been feeding, de fleeing, brushing and taming and made a shelter for him for past 6 months and he's been on lost and found since December last year and he smelt and looked a stray in April. So... they are keeping him 7 days to see if an owner comes forward
They think he's only 2 so I've said if they can get him into a good shelter please do but not the rspca. I feel like I'm losing one of my own but it comes down to stupid money.

Nannyg at 15 he will be firmly stuck in his ways now lol. 

Fiona236

Laura_Elsewhere said:

It is the second week of October and I am sitting here in a t-shirt (and skirt!) in our unheated flat, with the flat below currently unoccupied and no flat above or to the side, and feeling uncomfortably warm and no, it isn't a hot flush! 

Sorry laughed at not a hot flush! After having hot flushes all my life I'm cold at 50 and suspect in menopause. How does one know one is in it ?