Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
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Nov 19th 2017, 11:25 am
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Nov 19th 2017, 8:25 pm
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Nov 20th 2017, 9:28 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Its quite simple.
Comforter = Duvet
Blanket = Everything else that isn't a Comforter/Duvet
Comforter = Duvet
Blanket = Everything else that isn't a Comforter/Duvet
Nov 21st 2017, 9:54 am
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Comforters are not necessarily eiderdowns, though. We have quite a few inherited comforters, older ones I suppose, that are heavy but quite thin - filled with cotton batting. So not light and puffy like an eiderdown.
Nov 21st 2017, 9:39 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Nov 22nd 2017, 1:35 am
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Nov 22nd 2017, 12:19 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Quilts can be a variety of bedcoverings.
I am a quilter, along with several other women, and am at present working on a second quilt for auction at next year's Oktoberfest in my community.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern.
Hubby, who has a heart condition and is on blood thinner, needed a duvet for the bed at night. He found the one I had from NY yesterday, still in a packing box, pulled off the duvet cover and is using the duvet, a/k/a comforter, on his bed for warmth. Ours is filled with goose down.
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
I am a quilter, along with several other women, and am at present working on a second quilt for auction at next year's Oktoberfest in my community.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern.
Hubby, who has a heart condition and is on blood thinner, needed a duvet for the bed at night. He found the one I had from NY yesterday, still in a packing box, pulled off the duvet cover and is using the duvet, a/k/a comforter, on his bed for warmth. Ours is filled with goose down.
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
Last edited by Rete; Nov 22nd 2017 at 12:22 pm.
Nov 22nd 2017, 3:21 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
I am a quilter, along with several other women, and am at present working on a second quilt for auction at next year's Oktoberfest in my community.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern....
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern....
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
They can be SO beautiful, so creative, real works of art. Rete, both quilts you show in the two photos are just gorgeous, each in their own very different way.I don't see how Americans can bear to 'hide' these on their beds, or worse, store them away in a cupboard or closet for the summer--I'd be tempted to hang it in a prominent space on my wall year round!
Nov 22nd 2017, 6:34 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Thank you for the kind words. It is a fun project but takes nearly a year to assemble.
Tedious reading and if you are not interested on how a quilt is made, then skip this part.
The one we are working on presently is 134 squares (queen size) and each colored strip has to be individually sewn (by machine and I'm one of only two with a machine who sews). The main strip is sown on the diagonal and given back to the group who will chose the next strips to go on the square, they pin it and bring it back to us and we sew on the edge of the main strip on each side of the main strip and then it needs to be pressed flat, then the next two strips are pinned on and brought back to us and it goes on until the square is covered. So a good deal of pinning, sewing and pressing. It will be a mirror image quilt, meaning that when the quilt is finished and folded on the diagonal it will be the same number of each colored squares until it meets in the middle. We start with x number of purple squares, then blue squares, then green squares, then yellow, then rose until each side has 67 squares for a total of 134. Then a border is sewn around the four sides. Then we need to sow the back piece of the quilt which will be a series of different colored rectangles. Eventually the back will be sown to the front, the batting inserted, then sown closed and then we ship it out to a group of women who will do the actual quilting pattern affixing the bottom sheet, batting and top sheet together in an appropriate pattern. Then we raffle it off at $2 a chance.
Our quilt in October sold $2,300 in tickets and the money was used for community youth projects.
The Amish are known for their beautiful quilts and command hundreds of dollars a quilt. Many times they are not used on a bed but instead they are placed on stretching boards and hung on display. Ours are not that beautiful, and while pretty and quite serviceable, the person who won October's quilt has it on a guest bed.
Tedious reading and if you are not interested on how a quilt is made, then skip this part.
The one we are working on presently is 134 squares (queen size) and each colored strip has to be individually sewn (by machine and I'm one of only two with a machine who sews). The main strip is sown on the diagonal and given back to the group who will chose the next strips to go on the square, they pin it and bring it back to us and we sew on the edge of the main strip on each side of the main strip and then it needs to be pressed flat, then the next two strips are pinned on and brought back to us and it goes on until the square is covered. So a good deal of pinning, sewing and pressing. It will be a mirror image quilt, meaning that when the quilt is finished and folded on the diagonal it will be the same number of each colored squares until it meets in the middle. We start with x number of purple squares, then blue squares, then green squares, then yellow, then rose until each side has 67 squares for a total of 134. Then a border is sewn around the four sides. Then we need to sow the back piece of the quilt which will be a series of different colored rectangles. Eventually the back will be sown to the front, the batting inserted, then sown closed and then we ship it out to a group of women who will do the actual quilting pattern affixing the bottom sheet, batting and top sheet together in an appropriate pattern. Then we raffle it off at $2 a chance.
Our quilt in October sold $2,300 in tickets and the money was used for community youth projects.
The Amish are known for their beautiful quilts and command hundreds of dollars a quilt. Many times they are not used on a bed but instead they are placed on stretching boards and hung on display. Ours are not that beautiful, and while pretty and quite serviceable, the person who won October's quilt has it on a guest bed.
Last edited by Rete; Nov 22nd 2017 at 6:37 pm.
Nov 22nd 2017, 11:32 pm
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Quilts can be a variety of bedcoverings.
I am a quilter, along with several other women, and am at present working on a second quilt for auction at next year's Oktoberfest in my community.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern.
Hubby, who has a heart condition and is on blood thinner, needed a duvet for the bed at night. He found the one I had from NY yesterday, still in a packing box, pulled off the duvet cover and is using the duvet, a/k/a comforter, on his bed for warmth. Ours is filled with goose down.
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
I am a quilter, along with several other women, and am at present working on a second quilt for auction at next year's Oktoberfest in my community.
The term is interchangeable and actually quilt[ing] is the stitching of the two layers of material which were joined together to make an envelope which was then filled with feathers or batting materials, the end sealed and then a pattern is sewn over the entire material to hold the stuffed material in place and to add a decorative touch to the overall pattern.
Hubby, who has a heart condition and is on blood thinner, needed a duvet for the bed at night. He found the one I had from NY yesterday, still in a packing box, pulled off the duvet cover and is using the duvet, a/k/a comforter, on his bed for warmth. Ours is filled with goose down.
The black/white/yellow was the quilt I worked on last year and the other is a small part of next year's quilt. The squares have not been adjoined so you can't see the pattern as yet.
I love the yellow and black, it's gorgeous. Clever, talented lady
Nov 23rd 2017, 2:47 am
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Walmarts have a ton of both down and down-alternative duvets 
https://www.walmart.com/search/?cat_...hProductResult
I used to have an eiderdown on my bed, as a child - and icy cold cotton sheets that had been boiled, put through the wringer, hung on the line and then ironed and starched!
My sister's a quilter, she has made some absolutely wonderful ones...
An Afghan is a type of blanket..
https://www.walmart.com/search/?cat_...hProductResult
I used to have an eiderdown on my bed, as a child - and icy cold cotton sheets that had been boiled, put through the wringer, hung on the line and then ironed and starched!
My sister's a quilter, she has made some absolutely wonderful ones...
An Afghan is a type of blanket..
Nov 23rd 2017, 2:53 am
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Re: Duvets...I mean "Comforters!"
Thank you.