Candlewick bedspread question

MrsStepford

The Husband is a duvet hogger so we went with sheets and blankets when we moved in together. We just acquired our first cotton candlewick bedspread, from Chums and it seems to me that there are four ways of using it. 
1. Just pull it up so it drapes over the pillows and bed
2. Tuck part of it under the pillows like a sausage
3. Just pull up level with pillows and fold over like the flat sheet
4. Pull up on bed flat and plonk pillows on top. 

Is there a right or wrong way please ? My grandmother did sausage with hers. The Husband says drape. 

C_J

We haven’t had blankets/bedspreads for years but when we did, the candlewick was draped.

gwynlas

I do not believe there is a right or wrong way, you have just described 4 ways and there isn't a great deal of difference between drape or sausage as both require you to turm down before getting into bed. Drape is easiest and there might be insufficent fabric for sausage if your pillows are bulky.

elsien

One grandparent was a drape, one was a sausage. As t’were.
Whatever you think looks best, is the correct answer. 

Living_proof

You are all showing your age!

MrsStepford

I hadn't thought about insufficient fabric, good point @gwynlas

Well, I was brought up with duvets. Making my bed in the morning was a doddle but changing the duvet cover was a problem. We prefer sheets and light blankets. That way we can change bedlinen or chuck on a fleece blanket quickly without messing about with duvets in the middle of the night. 

Not had a candlewick before. We did have a well vintage eiderdown which MIL gave us for really cold nights. We used it until it disintegrated. Never seen one since. Also, in France I've seen lightweight quilted bedspreads (I think it's a Provencal thing) but never in UK. 

Apintplease

You can buy the quilted bedspreads in a number of places, JL , The Fine Linen Company , La redoute , - I had cheap ones from Ikea

Now is the time to get the machine out and make your own Or crochet up a granny blanket

Spendless

Gosh this fetches back memories from childhood. Ours was always sausage shape. I hated making beds so much, as a teen I pestered for a new fangled duvet for my birthday. My mother then and to this day still makes beds up with sheets and blankets underneath the duvet" 
My DH is a  duvet hogger too, we have a kingsize quilt. My next step would be too seperate duvets -lol. 

maman

Spendless said:

Gosh this fetches back memories from childhood. Ours was always sausage shape. I hated making beds so much, as a teen I pestered for a new fangled duvet for my birthday. My mother then and to this day still makes beds up with sheets and blankets underneath the duvet" 

The sheets and blankets underneath the duvet sound like your mother was treating it as an eiderdown. Even more dated than the candlewick besdspread. We'll soon get more up to date with Brentford nylon sheets. 🤣

MrsStepford

Brentford nylon sheets.. my mother told me about them, sounds dire. She said there was a Brentfords shop in Week Street, Maidstone. I will have a look on La Redoute, thanks. I

Apintplease

MrsStepford said:

Brentford nylon sheets.. my mother told me about them, sounds dire. She said there was a Brentfords shop in Week Street, Maidstone. I will have a look on La Redoute, thanks. I

They were dire

And back in the day negligees were all the rage - nylon on top of nylon - you used to crackle with the static and you woke up with your hair standing upright lol