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 :)

[alid5]

a quilt is very different from a duvet as my gran used to make alot of patchwork quilts
Duvet for bed
Quilt for keeping cosy in front of TV

[smart1]

Actually, having thought about it some more, mine is a duvet requiring a quilt cover! Weird.

[vivandorron]

Duvet where I live in South Wales. Although they were called Eiderdowns, until manufacturers started using synthetic filling material.

Ron.

[RATTER15]

Eiderdowns were different again I believe, you put them on top of your blankets in the winter when it got really cold.

[zebo]

Duvet, East Anglia, via North West. I've just been redoing the bedroom and noticed that bedspreads are now back in vogue, on top of the duvet, usually folded decoratively, not to be confused with a throw which seems to neither use nor ornament.

[annie0000]

Duvet - Scotland.

Ratter - I think you are referring to what we call a coat ;o)

That's what we put on top of our blankets when it was cold...

[missprim]

The big white thing is a duvet and it goes into a duvet cover.
A quilt was usually pink, satiny and frilly round the edge.
An eiderdown was put on top of the quilt and it covered all of the bed.
This was usually pink too and had embroidery on it.
Well that's what it was like in our house up North.

[peashaq]

candlewick - NB, do not spew curry over it after drinking, Glasgow.

[Arksided]

Quilt when I was younger... Duvet now as I've become a snob! however in recent climbs it's double Duvet and central heating on full. anyone know what a tog is???

[Arksided]

ooops ... up north

[douglas9401]

Downy, get over yourselves. :P

[missprim]

peashaq I couldn't remember what it was called, it was a candlewick bedspread.

[trt]

I prefer cotton sheets with a furry leopard skin blanket, makes me feel wild!!!

[missprim]

In your dreams R :-)

[owdhamer]

you need two tonight whatever you call them

[WyeDyed]

My parents thought that anything "continental" must be suspicious, so we stuck with sheets and blankets, with, maybe, a QUILTed banket on top if it was really cold.
Doo-vay was a word that posh people used.

...Grew up in the South-East

[cupid04]

Duvet, but when I was little I had an eiderdown, with candlewick bedspread!
I live in the south.

[peashaq]

missprim - candlewick bedspread with everybody's coat and jacket thrown on top, aye the good auld days!

[starone]

I use the

[starone]

Sorry I pressed the submit button by mistake. That's what comes of being up so early in the morning with nothing to do. It should go on to say I use the peg method but might try grasscarps method to see if it is any easier. It took me half an hour of struggle last week trying to change the bloody thing. Blankets and a bedspread were far easier. When I was younger we had a thing at the bottom which had to be shaken each morning and then rearanged with much patting and shoving. Would not like to go back to that.