For easier duvet cover changing, I’ve just ordered some of these.

Yes! I have used these for years and it makes the job so much easier!

I use my claw-style hairclips

That's what I do when I change my duvet cover. I just use ordinary pegs. I also put extra ones in the middle of the top and sides

Try bulldog clips if you have them. I use 6 and it works

I also use “coverless duvets” from the Fine Bedding Company. They are just a bit more expensive than ordinary duvets but you don’t need duvet covers so you save money. They are very lightweight so perfect for summer - we are currently using a 4.5 tog but they do winter ones too.
No changing covers as you just put the entire quilt in the washing machine and dry outside if possible or half an hour in the tumble dryer. Very hygienic because you are washing all of it.

MissAdventure

They don't seem to respond to shaking here.
I usually have to give up and lie on the bed.
It takes me at least all day of waving my arms around like a demented windmill.

Once again MissA you’ve given me the best laugh. I wish I’d saved your posts from past threads, they’re always hilarious.

*Stephanie. Tried that method last week and was in the same kind of pickle I normally have. When trying to shake the duvet down found it stuck as per usual. Find if cover is 100% cotton that cayses even bigger problem. Pokyester content in cover helps seems to make it less inclined to stick. Nightmare, I hate changing bed covers. I usually have cover proper way out, grab two top corners of duvet, insert into cover (still holding duvet corners together) then place one corner into duvet corner still holding on tgen the ither side. Grab corners on outside and shake. Tried the rolling method but need a big floor space for that so didnt work either. There has to be an easy way and whoever discovers it will be a heroine/hero.

Same as Stephanie, easy peasy even with a virtually useless left hand and arm,

Muji store have been selling something similar for years always meant to buy some but never did.

To me the top of the cover is the end without buttons, so I start by inserting the top corners of the duvet in the top of the cover, turned right-side out, which was the way we always used to do it in Denmark.

The younger members of the community think outside in is easier - I have tried it and found it even more difficult and it offends my sense of good housekeeping to put anything away outside in!

I can no longer shake a duvet and its cover without hurting my shoulders, so after the top corners are in place I put the whole caboodle across the bed and work the lower corners into place in the cover, taking care that the lenght-wise edges of the duvet don't roll in but are against the edges of the cover.

If DH hadn't been born and bred in Denmark, where top sheets are not used, I would long since have reverted to top sheets and only changing the duvet covers once a month or so.

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I have some of these. Coverless duvets. They are so light and easy to wash. Pop them in the washing machine on a morning and they’re dry by evening

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Been using clothes pegs for years now when I cant get my son to come over just to do it. He still can do a better job than me & my clothes pegs though!

I detest changing quilt covers. I rarely wash/change mine as I use a top sheet, which makes the duvet more like an eiderdown/old fashioned type quilt. I'm only 5ft 1in which doesn't help when trying to change it!

On a slightly different note, years ago I used to machine tape onto the inside corners of the duvet cover and the corners of the duvet. Turn cover inside out, tie tapes together, turn cover right way out, tie bottom tapes together. Stops the duvet moving around inside the cover. Having said that, I only ever did it once and no longer have the same duvets or duvet covers! But it did help. I got that tip from a Katy Boyle article in some magazine or other decades ago!

Nandalot

If I am changing a cover on my own I just use normal clothes pegs!

So do I no need to buy anything special as long as they have a good grip.

The last duvet I bought has little ties, as does the cover. Bliss!

Do the clips make it easier to get the lumpy bits out of the quilt, please?

I bought the same things in Lanzarote . They were to keep you pool towel fixed to the top of your sunbed and they were everywhere . My husband refused to let me use them there but I discovered their use at home while changing the duvet.

Nandalot

If I am changing a cover on my own I just use normal clothes pegs!

Same here.

Some great ideas here - I bought these quilt clips last year but keep forgetting to use them. They have good reviews so maybe I'll give them a try!

www.dunelm.com/product/quilt-clips-1000017856

dragonfly46

I do the same Stephanie it is how the Dutch do it - after hanging their duvets out the windows to air!

You’d need to be home all the time, wouldn’t you, in case it started to rain!

We have two single duvets on our bed, much easier, but hard enough.
Or you could use a top sheet with a duvet, and change the duvet cover less often.

I'm due to change mine tomorrow, so will try the clothes peg tip. I usually take mine on to the banister on the landing and shake it out over the stairs.

My aunt is 85 and very small, and since being widowed has got a single bed. I've bought her Belledorm duvet covers with 'hand holes' so she can hold the duvet in place whilst shaking it. She hasn't opened them yet, probably never will!

I bought these giant pegs and they work well, but any pegs shoukd do unless you have a very thick duvet.

They don't seem to respond to shaking here.
I usually have to give up and lie on the bed.
It takes me at least all day of waving my arms around like a demented windmill.