Duvets
Someone recently wrote (while I was being a very bad and very absent blogger)…asking how to easily put a duvet on a comforter.
HA!
I truly believe that a whole industry has grown around making duvets the most incredibly complex household items possible! But there is hope. For one, choose a better duvet! Several companies now make duvets with hand slits at the corners. That way you don’t have to actually crawl into the duvet with your comforter! If your duvet doesn’t have hand-slits, you can easily make some!
Find a seam ripper (you can buy one for $1 at any store that sells sewing supplies!) Now, very carefully remove the stitching on the edges a right angles with the nose seam. (By nose seam, I mean the top of your duvet! The seam that would touch your nose while you sleep.) Carefully remove about 6 inches of stitching. If you sew, you can now apply bias tape and re-edge the seam. Otherwise, simply iron it in place. If you’re afraid of the fabric fraying, you can apply a small amount of fray check along the unfinished seam.
OR… You can simply go with the old standard method. Grab one corner of the comforter. Insert that corner into a nose corner (see above) of the comforter. Hold the joined corners in one hand. Take the opposite corner and insert into the opposite nose corner. You should now be holding both nose corners — duvet and comforter. Shake the duvet down over the comforter and button.
Good luck. I hate this chore! 
July 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
There is another way of doing this… if you turn the duvet inside out, reach your hand into the duvet and grab one corner, with that same hand grab one corner of the comforter and pull the comforter into the duvet and slowly turn it right side out. Keep holding on to your corner til it’s all the way on then fluff.