Can you make a normal comforter using a duvet pattern?
Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at
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duvets, comfortors and quilts are all the same sort of thing.
a sandwich of top fabric, filling, and bottom or backing fabric.
Duvet actually goes over a quilt or comforter. to keep it clean and nice?
You will wind up spending about the same for your comforter to make it as the one you want in the store already made.
I get very plain ready made comfortors and decorate or enhance them with doilies, buttons, and other things to get individual unique item.
Yes, duvets and comforters are the same thing!
It depends on who’s using the term and what they mean. In Europe, e.g., a duvet is a plain (usually white) comforter which is left without stitching (aka "featherbed") or which has been "quilted" a bit (in a large grid, etc) to hold the feathers or the "microfiber" in place so it can’t move all over the duvet.
In that case, a duvet would be what you want, you’d just be using decorative fabric instead of plain white cotton, etc.
A "duvet cover" would then be the large envelope style thingie sort of like a giant pillowcase made from a decorative fabric that you’d slip over the plain duvet and tie or snap in place.
Having a removable cover allows easy washing so the whole duvet doesn’t have to be washed.
Other places though seem to mean duvet covers when they say duvets…. and/or comforters and quilts can be different from those and from each other. Partly it’s just marketing.
In general, most of the fluffy thick comforters are really "quilts" that use high-loft battings and don’t necessarily have as much stitching to hold the battings in place.
So you could also use measurements/etc for making a quilt of the size you want (but be sure and use a high-loft, probably polyester, batting), then just do enough stitching (or tying**) to make it the way you want (…most bats will say they require stitching or ties every-so-many-inches apart, but usually you can get away with a bit longer distance depending on how the quilt/comforter will be used.
Quilts are often comforters/etc which have "pieced" from many different fabrics, but they can also be made like you’re thinking of, as "whole cloth quilts" without any piecing.
You’d just ignore any instructions for piecing and start with the "final size" of the quilt top, and proceed from there (or find a lesson on making a whole cloth quilt of the siz eyou want).
There’s loads of info on making basic "quilts" (especially for beginners, and in easier ways) in the links in my answer to this previous question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614065010AAWXvmD
…For the easiest way, you’d probably want to especially check out the "inside out" method for attaching the "top" + batting + "backing".
…One or two of those links will also talk about how to "tie" a quilt, which is usually easier than stitching it.**