<p>Since it sounds like you get cold, especially while sleeping, please consider buying a down comforter or duvet with an encasing and a cover. This will help keep you nice & toasty while allowing you to wash the cover as often as desired. Down really provides great warmth with very little weight. We have used down comforters & found them WONDERFUL!</p>
<p>Company Store has a nice selection at decent prices. There are many others as well.</p>
<p>Anyone have suggestions of “cool” sheets (ie: something that will help cut down on sweating at night!), that don’t need ironing?</p>
<p>Buy a duvet cover and a stuffer. The duvet covers can be washed in a normal washer just like sheets. Stuffers can be plain white, can be down or synthetic…whatever your budget allows. I put mine outside on a dry sunny day or “fluff” them in a dryer on air. A highly doubt my kids can remember how to make a “normal” bed anymore.</p>
<p>Itslfs cotton sheets and cotton flannel sheets I find the best. As far as ironing…hah who does that anymore? Even my mother who is 83 never ironed sheets when I was young now perhaps HER mother did!</p>
<p>When I first graduated, years ago, I found some beautiful designer sheets on sale and made a matching duvet cover out of two flat sheets. Its hard to imagine an easier sewing project.</p>
<p>I’ve made most of the duvet covers–it really is a giant pillowcase. I just buy flat sheets and sew around three sides. I generally sew ribbon into the corners, the “comforter” part has loops sewn on the corners (I put them there). It doesn’t seem to shift, and I love that it is very washable. The winter one is flannel, spring is navy. I switch the bedding to a quilt in the summer.</p>
<p>D does have a duvet I bought at Overstocks.com…she loved the pattern and it was on clearance.</p>
<p>I agree with those who suggest a duvet cover that you can throw in the wash and a down comforter with a plain cover. A good comforter is an investment that will last a lifetime, and you won’t be locked into a single aesthetic, since you can easily change the duvet cover. The Company Store is a good source and has great prices on sale. If you can visit the outlet store of a place like Cuddledown you can get great deals there.</p>
<p>If you get cold, definitely cotton flannel sheets, and possibly a cotton thermal blanket…although sleeping with the down comforter in its cover directly above you can actually be more effective.</p>
<p>I’m the reverse of you, though. I like it cold at night! :)</p>
<p>I like it cold, but my house is freezing cold. Mother is in menopause and doesn’t care that the rest of us aren’t having hot flashes. 
We wear sweaters year round indoors, even if its a hundred degrees outside. And my bed is right up against a poorly insulated window. Should probably rethink that while I’m at it.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d post an update now that I am finally DONE with this project! I ended up with two light comforters with two duvets so I can layer them. I got DEEP, almost black, navy sheets, then I have a black and white floral-ish but modern duvet to go on top of that, then I have a deep purple solid one to go over that-- the white floral one just peeks out at the top as the purple one is cuffed to show some embroidery on the underside. We saw the purple and black/white one together at the store and I really liked it, and decided to do jewel tones and bring in the navy… wasn’t sure about it and was thinking maybe black would be better but now that I see it together I really like it, it’s really rich and beautiful. And it was inexpensive!</p>
<p>This is going to be with my hemnes ikea bed frame in black brown, and my sultan hultsvik memory foam pillowtop mattress which is being delivered tomorrow. 
By the time I get home from work tomorrow this will finally all be over. What an ORDEAL! Would you believe it took me almost a month to find a couple of teenagers willing to take 50 bucks to move my old bed frame down the stairs? Yeesh.</p>