Hahaha, make one! But seriously, I like the simple Kavitz solid quilts at Ikea.
Garnet Hill has some nice quilts. I like a combination of a flat sheet underneath a light weight quilt as well as a duvet with a light to medium weight comforter insert. I find that to be much more versatile than comforters of various weights. For some reason I feel like the duvet “breathes” better and is warm without being heavy. I’m not sure why a duvet would inevitably wrinkle? Mine never do.
If you want a very inexpensive duvet (so inexpensive you can change it with the season if you want), you can try Ikea. We have a cal king and I usually buy my duvet covers from Target- the Fieldcrest brand. Very comfortable and well made. I definitely prefer a duvet to a comforter or quilt for comfort.
I actually do make my own quilts so don’t really know where to buy them but if I were to buy one it would have to be 100% cotton, back, front and filling. Otherwise it would be too hot.
LLBean
Lands’ End
Garnet Hill
Pottery Barn
West Elm
The Company Store
All have quilts, comforters, duvet covers.
I have no plans to ever set foot inside a department store again.
Do you need an actual duvet liner? We have some old comforters, that are still very comfortable – just look awful after a few years of pets and people. Cleaned, but have a few minor tears, and fading due to the washer. Can you not simply buy a duvet cover, and use the old comforter as a liner? Or are they sized differently? And how do the cover and liner stay together, so that the liner doesn’t bunch?
Loved the double twin duvets on a larger bed, as used in Germany. No more hassles trying to share one cover.
In addition to @veryhappy’s great suggestions, also look online at:
Serena & Lilly
Anthropologie
Cuddledown
Restoration Hardware
Frontgate
Crate & Barrel
Horchow
@kjofkw , yes, you can most certainly put a cover over an old comforter.
I found it difficult to keep the comforter from slipping inside the duvet–there was always extra room in the duvet. Drove me nuts. If you like a sleeker look, duvets over comforters don’t work so well. I switched to a matalesse coverlet and throw a comforter on top in the winter. I take it off and fold it during the day.
I would look at Garnet Hill or Pine Cone Hill for quilts/coverlets. Sferra (brand) makes coverlets and quilts too.
We use a cuddledown oversized queen duvet and cotton cover in the winter. Its sized to come down to where the box spring begins, so we don’t have a tug of war every night and it looks nice on the bed. I only buy from them on sale, as their prices are high though quality is excellent. I’ll use either a cotton percale or cotton flannel fitted sheet and just the duvet on top (learned this when we lived in Germany 30 years ago.). When the weather warms up I go to fitted sheet with a flat on top and then alternate a couple of homemade quilts that were gifts.
The kids comforters for home were bought at Costco and I made the covers using flat bed sheets. Very easy if you know how to make buttonholes. I added ties in the corners to keep the inside safe from shifting. I made bed skirts for all our beds (which are mattress and box spring) using flat bed sheets, too. One sheet lies flat between the mattresses and the gathered skirt hangs from that sheet. Skills I learned in 8th grade. When kids went to college, they took the Company store comforters - nice color choices and easy to throw the whole thing in the washer.
It’s not hard to replace the cover for washing - you get good at what you practice.
Big safety pins holding the comforter and cover together inside the cover at the corners work to keep it from bunching up. But the comforter and the cover have to be approximately the same size.
i always have trouble finding a duvet or comforter that is long enough. For the queen beds I can purchase a king to get the length I want on the sides, but the head to foot length is still too short most of the time. Pottery Barn’s duvets are only 92" long, so even without a thick mattress, the blanket peeks out of the bottom. Either I find a pattern I love and it is too short, or the company that makes an oversized cover doesn’t have the pattern or color I am looking for!
Someone must have gotten really tired of fixing their duvet, they even patented a set of magnets:
https://www.amazon.com/Duvet-Stays-8464377-comforter-shifting/dp/B00HZSHWX8
I have velcro buttons inside all four corners of my duvets and the corners of the comforter inserts. Easy peasy to insert/attach the comforters and no slippage. I make my duvets to exactly match the size of the inserts.
In Japan the comforters have loops on each four corners and the duvets have cotton ribbon-like strings inside on the four corners. You tie in the comforter. It would be easy enough to do.
But I like @ChoatieMom 's Velcro idea. It would be easy if they sell Velcro with adhesive backing here.
Such an item exists.
Some of the prettiest duvet covers I’ve ever seen are at Crane and Canopy.
Ohhh… They have quilts!!
Thank you for all the quilt suggestions! I will take some time to check them out!!!
Wow – there are so many places that sell these things that I’ve never heard of.