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 :)

[RATTER15]

Starbuckone >>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.<< im intrigued!!

[maggiebee]

Parents had a quilt on top of the bed but it was made of some silky material and embroidered. I think of mine as a duvet and it goes inside a duvet cover. My "quilt" when I was young was my dad's army greatcoat thrown over the bed in winter. The good old days!

[vivandorron]

Ratter....Perhaps Starbuck is referring to a feather filled Mattress. I am old enough to remember such. Actually, they were quite comfortable because they indented to one's body form and were really snug and warm to sleep upon. However, 'modern thinking' came along and a firmer posture was deemed to be more appropriate in bed.....( No jokes please which might offend an old softie, which I am. )

Ron.

[oldbiddy]

duvet Cumbria

[oldbiddy]

duvet Cumbria

[Westie2]

Duvet. A quilt is a cover-all for a bed, bit like a bedspread. Northerner, lived most of my life in the south now moved to the east!

[annadomino]

Duvet, north.
And a real thin summer duvet is called a duvette.

[pastafreak]

Duvet,with-as I am a transplanted Yank living in the South-west-a patchwork quilt on top.
Grew up with bedspreads-a bit like candlewick I suppose. Never saw duvets until I came to the UK.

[RAYSHINE]

Well........ i was used to having a counterpane or a bedspread, the first time i encountered a "continental quilt" i was sixteen years old and on holiday in Austria, (40 years ago) i didn't know what to make of it and after some investigation i undone the poppers and got inside it !
i call it a continental quilt.

[AB Editor]

"i didn't know what to make of it and after some investigation i undone the poppers and got inside it !"

LOL!

[Barb49]

Duvet.(East Yorkshire originally, now East Midlands)

[Barb49]

Duvet.(From East Yorks originally, now East Midlands)

[craft1948]

When I was little we had flannelette sheets, two blankets, covered by a candlewick bedspread, all tucked in so tightly you could barely move.
If we were still cold we had my dad's army greatcoat spread on top.

[Isleman]

Duvet
North

[wolf63]

I like RAYSHINE's answer. A cross between a feather duvet and a sleeping bag would be great during the Scottish winters.

I use the word duvet but, sometimes, may call it a quilt. I am from Scotland

[Pears]

I first met one in Austria, when I was travelling with my mother's cousin who had worked with the Control Commission in Germany after the Second world War. She called it an eiderdecke. I usually call them duvets, as a quilt means something rather thinner to me, the sort of thing you tuck round your knees to keep the draught out.
Actually I'm so old-fashioned I'm still using sheets and blankets, until they wear out!

[whitejack9]

I use both names equally but whatever they are called, I hate them! Much prefer sheets and blankets

[jon529320]

My wife and I use two single duvets on our double bed. It has completely banished the mid-night tussle for ownership, means I can use a heavier TOG rating on mine and when either of us snores to the detriment of the other the wide eyed and wide awake body can debunk to the spare room with a warm duvet and without disturbing the pot boiler's sweet dreams. Sweet harmony :-)

[boxtops]

That's a REALLY good idea jon - one duvet with a cat in the middle means that both of us get half a flap and no sides!