Quilt or Duvet

[catcuddler2]

Not really a question more or a poll.I have always said quilt when referring to the padded white thing that keeps you warm on your bed but I know it varies.So quilt or duvet?
Also put if you are from the north south or the midlands :)

[coccinelle]

I always knew it as a continental quilt so it's a quilt for me. i was from up north.

[sunny-dave]

Hmmm - the big white thing is a quilt ... but the colourful thing it lives inside is a duvet cover.

dave

(aka "quite confused and living in the midlands")

[bednobs]

duvet. south

[rowanwitch]

A 'continental quilt' was what they were first marketed as then the traditional term Duvet was imported now a 'quilt' is more closely synonymous with a comforter being decorative and patterened with 'quilted designs'

[mccfluff]

both poss more quilt than duvet. i've never really though abou tit

i'm a southerner transplanted to the midlands

[Baldric]

South. Quilt.

[boxtops]

South. Duvet. A quilt is a big shiny quilted thing that sits on top of the bed.

[tonyav]

Duvet, West Midlands.

[mccfluff]

lol i am imagining a big shiny quilted thing sitting on my bed

[sunny-dave]

↑ ↑ Oi - who told you about my tattoos then fluff ? ↑ ↑

[Grandma_Yiddo]

I call it a duvet,I am originally from the north west. So the silky padded thing that sits on top of the bed is the eiderdown.

[mccfluff]

lol

no this is more round and has a tuft of orange hair, i'm goign to call it bert

[FredPuli43]

I think of a quilt as having the back and top stitched together, whether the stitching creates squares or just one central panel; when you pick a quilt up, the filling doesn't all fall to one end; and it is complete in itself, it does not have a separate cover.
A duvet is the other thing.
I am from the South East.
Bizarrely, although 'duvet' is a French word; the primary meaning is 'down, soft feathers' ; the French don't call one a duvet at all. To them it's 'une couette' (as I discovered when trying buy one !)

[grasscarp]

If anyone is interested this is an easy way put on a duvet cover. Turn duvet cover inside out. Reach arms inside to the far corners, and with each hand hold onto one of the corners of the duvet. So you now have the corners where they will be orientated with the duvet. Then, while still gripping the cover corner plus the duvet corners, shake the cover down as you pull the duvet up inside it, so the cover is turning the right way out. Do it up.

[TheOtherHalf]

Duvet for me. Having a duvet day sounds better than a quilt day somehow. Im from the midlands but now up north

[smart1]

Duvet. North.

[craft1948]

North - Duvet.

[jackthehat]

As Rowan says, they were called 'Continental Quilts' when they first made their appearance on this side of the Channel. I think that was to protect us from those fancy foreign words........

I was brought up in E. Midlands/W. E. Anglia.........by parents from the NW, so make of that what you will.

Now all my beds have 'Duvets'.

[smart1]

grasscarp - I use that method on singles, but being 5' short find it impossible with a king size! So my method - shove top of duvet right into the top corners of cover, secure each of the two corners with a sturdy clothes peg, then shove rest of duvet in, fasten, and shake it until it looks right!

[ummmm]

Same as Dave. It's a quilt that requires a duvet cover :-)