What's the difference between a duvet and a quilt and a comforter?
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Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2012 9:26:02 am PDT #11665 of 30001
brillig
WindSparrow - Apr 18, 2012 9:32:34 am PDT #11666 of 30001
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There are plenty of non-girly comforters out there.
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2012 9:35:01 am PDT #11667 of 30001
brillig
To add: well, I know what quilts are, of course, but am still baffled at the difference between a duvet and a comforter.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2012 9:35:41 am PDT #11668 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Duvets are thicker?
beekaytee - Apr 18, 2012 9:36:15 am PDT #11669 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Yeah, I'm a big fan of duvet with cover, and no flat sheet. It's a little hassle when you wash the cover to put it back on, but that's less than the daily hassle of straightening sheets. Then all you have to do is flop the duvet on the bed and it's more or less made.
This is totally me.
Once I gave up the top sheet, I felt completely liberated. Now, I can almost make the bed while I'm still in it.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2012 9:42:10 am PDT #11670 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
AFAIK, a quilt is a thinnish cover which is meant to be put directly on the bed on top of the sheets. A duvet is a thicker item which is meant to be put on a the bed inside of a washable cover, and serving as quilt, blanket, bedspread and top sheet all in one. A comforter is thicker, like a duvet, but has no cover and is also meant to go over the sheets.
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2012 9:46:23 am PDT #11671 of 30001
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I think I like a little more granularity in my heat maintenance in bed. I start with a sheet then end up under my quilt by morning--and partway through the night I often kick everything off when the sweats start. Another reason Hubby and I have separate sets of covers.
Liese S. - Apr 18, 2012 9:59:30 am PDT #11672 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yup, that's it as far as I know, Scrappy. My duvet is down, as well, although you can get down comforters. But because of that (down is difficult to clean), having the washable cover makes all the difference in the world in ease of use. And the bed can get all dirty and I can spiffy it up in a hurry. Whereas with a comforter, if it gets dirty it needs to be professionally cleaned.
Then I also have summer and winter covers. So in summer the duvet is nice and light and in winter it's flannel covered and so cozy.
beekaytee - Apr 18, 2012 10:05:13 am PDT #11673 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I have a winter duvet and a spring duvet. Thin cotton blankets for hot weather because I can never be without a cover.
Steph L. - Apr 18, 2012 10:07:02 am PDT #11674 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is it because of a comforter's lack of cover that it requires a top sheet? (The idea of not having a top sheet squicks me something fierce, and I'm surprised by that reaction and I can't quite articulate why it squicks me so badly.)
Also, if a comforter has a cover, does that make it a duvet?