Keeping warm in bed

A cup of tea in bed in the morning is heaven. Usually reading iPad news.
A bed jacket, never occurred to me but fantastic idea to have something prepared.

Thorntrees I had a jacket just like that! I can remember it clearly, I was often ill in the winter as a child and had lots of jackets over time but that was the best!

An old cardi works. Probably better than a thin silky ‘bed jacket’ which was usually for show.
A friend was complaining of being cold in bed and I asked if they had an electric blanket. They bought one and keep on thanking me for recommending it. I can’t believe it’s their first one, but know it won’t be their last.

When I was 17, in hospital for surgery, my mum bought me a quilted bed jacket which was not out of place in the ward. But I didn't take it with me when, a few months later, I went to University. I think it was still around when I went home for the holidays. Nowadays, I have a purple fleece which I wear in the morning with a pair of plaid PJ trousers.

My mum had a knitted pattern for what she called a shrug.

It used double knitting wool. Using size 4 or 5 mm needles cast on enough stitches to fit comfortably around your wrist. Rib about 4 or 5 inches. Increase in every stitch to double the number and change to garter stitch and I think size 7 or 8mm needles depending on the wool and how thick you want it. Knit it long enough to reach from one wrist, up one arm, across your back and down the other arm to 4 or 5 inches from your other wrist, knit two together across the row to halve the number of stitches and rib to match the first rib. Sew together the ribbed wrists and thus you have a shrug!

Maybe a GNetter will know the exact pattern but it's easy to adapt!

Just read back again and spied that Thorntrees mum had the same pattern.

When DS was born, MIL knitted me 2 bed jackets. A winter baby, they were very useful for his night feeds.
I'm with M0nica, I'd sort out a shawl (triangular would be easier in a confined space, knitted, crocheted, quilted)

I sleep naked if it’s a bit chilly snuggling up to OH warms things up quickly.

Have a bit of fun, even if you don't crochet/knit.
There's lots of vintage patterns to look at on the internet, some going back to the early 1800s for these things
Some hideous, some quite cute ❤️

I knitted myself a Jubilation Jacket, free pattern on the internet, and its beautifully multicoloured and thick in a honeycomb pattern. I use it as a bedjacket and am knitting another one.

I seem to be quite the opposite re warm beds!! Love, love to get in bed with really cold linen sheets!! Even though it is getting colder at night, I still end up with my feet out of the bed. No heating on in the bedroom ever, and windows wide open!!

This one was my mum's bed jacket and I remember her wearing it in the 50s and 60s. I occasionally wear it in the winter when reading in bed.

For reading in bed I just put a cardigan on backwards

Electric blanket lower or above are very good x

DH wears a fleece as his bed jacket. Woe to me if I called it a bed jacket though.

I was given a most marvellous yellow satin quilted bed-jacket that was lined with flannel when as a child of seven I was ill in bed for over a month.

At the time I was thrilled with the present, but was hardly ever allowed to wear it.

Because I spent so much time ill in bed as a child, I have never in all my adult life, which fortunately has been blessed with good health, worn a bed jacket, nor do I ever eat a meal in my nightie or dressing-gown, as doing so reminds me all to much of the worst times in my childhood.

In Denmark, houses are better insulated, even old ones, than in Britain and kept warmer, so keeping warm in bed is not a problem, even in the wet autumn weather that seems to have started now, or in the depth of winter, but I clearly remember wearing woollen jumpers in bed in Scotland as a child and teenager.

Yes i remember my gran had one i think, a knitted lacy thing, but i had a shorter hip length fleecy thing like a much shorter dressing gown a few years back, think i donated it as it wasnt worn much.(i think it was a night jacket& pyjamas 3-in-1 ensemble)

I really want this but it's just too expensive

www.lakeland.co.uk/63621/lakeland-grey-electric-heated-poncho?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAjwmbqoBhAgEiwACIjzEEP53r6_onBbMXEQqS4-yKD1PPTwsChyQPT4hQ9UGH1zOZOvnaQRuBoC2G8QAvD_BwE

Jaybee66- oh that is a really beautiful jacket 🙂

I live in Australia and in our Winter I wear socks, tracksuit bottoms and a cardigan over my pjs to bed! Goodness knows how I would cope in northern climes, probably freeze solid.

Janejudge- if you sign up to Lakeland emails&club they send out booklets every so often with vouchers in to save a good bit on a certain spend- which would make it a bit cheaper.

Nannan2

Janejudge- if you sign up to Lakeland emails&club they send out booklets every so often with vouchers in to save a good bit on a certain spend- which would make it a bit cheaper.

thank you, I will do that

A few years ago, I gave both my mum & sister very light, velvety, long, dusky pink bed jackets for Christmas. I loved them at the time & wished I'd bought myself one. DS loved hers & admitted to walking the dog in it & mum loved hers for cosy bedtime reading. When my dear mum died 4 years ago, her bed jacket found its way to me & how I love the memories that go with it. I wear it when I'm lounging in the house as well as for reading in bed. It's a lovely reminder of my mum.

I have what I use as a bedjacket, a short fleece dressing gown and I see many in the shops, short fleece type dressing gowns. would be suitable imo

I sent for a bed jacket from Amazon, it has 'Camille' on the label. I wouldn't be without it.