Just bumping as we are hopefully buying a king sized bed today and obviously need a new doona :D
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Just bumping as we are hopefully buying a king sized bed today and obviously need a new doona :D
I don't know what I've got but it's not feather and it's a sheraton one. It's lovely and can go in the washing machine :)
Wondered who bumped this!
I splashed out when I bought my bed when I was single and bought a 100% down quilt. Loved it. Loved snugging under it.
Then married DH. DH hates it. Too hot for him. So for a while we used a cotton quilt thing in summer and the feathers in winter and them we got it over... And bought a wool one.
I am totally converted. It is toasty warm in winter and light enough in summer, except for some of those 25+ degree nights!!
I bought it through Lorraine Lee - at my own party so I got it half price I think, but it was still like $200 or something. But well worth it, IMHO.
I still find it snuggly and warm and not too heavy.
80% down is the way to go! Excy but sooo good!! Lorraine Lea have a few gorgeous ones too and if you have a party you could get them hugely reduced!
We have a woollen cashmere quilt. It might not be quite as snuggly but it's super warm and breathes. We have it dry cleaned every year to keep it fresh. It was exxy... (like Kim we got king sized doona for QS bed)
We went looking at king sized beds yesterday too! much more expensive than the quilt. Maybe I should start a thread about mattresses. What are you looking at?
we have a king size wool doona on a queen size bed. is awesome. i can't have down due to allergy issues. i find it far more snuggly than the polyester alternative for me...
I just wrote about this on your FB :p
Wool. I love wool and I can't imagine ever going back to down. The snuggliness of down is illusionary.
We have a down doona, but it's funky in that it's actually 2 doonas - one light weight, one medium weight, and they clip together to make a heavy weight for winter. Got it from Myer.
I married a sheep farmer so we are only allowed to have wool now.
That being said I really like them, we also had one that clipped together so that you could have light weight in summer heavy in winter. We have a king size bed and had to upgrade our doona and I went through a company called Aussie Wool Quilts, have had not problems with the doona.
I grew up on a sheep property so I love that, as well as being super comfy, wool quilts are supporting our wool industry. I also like the fact that sheep don't need to die to give wool.:
I got a goose down one *ducks for cover*
I have a wool doona and find it cosy. I'm like inanna. I don't like the thought of sleeping in dead animal feathers. I'm just sleeping I a Sheeps castoff hair instead XD
I am keen to get a nice cotton quilt tho purely because I HATE DOONA COVERS AAARGHH!!
But waiting til we move house :)
I have a super-king wool quilt on my KS bed - best quilt ever! The super-king is slightly larger than king, so you kind of get the same effect as having a ks quilt on a qs bed.
Tehehe Olive - congrats! I have a goose down (after years of having polyester for DH - the asthma council now recommend down/feather over the polyester). So I raced out and got one last year and I LOVE love love it! I'm sure you'll love yours!
I have wool as am allergic to down and hate the feathers working their way way out and poking me! Also hate sleeping in dead animal as am vegetarian.
I am also a hot bod so I find feathers way too uncomfortable. Wool is perfect.
Belfries, I find That odd as feathers make me much more sneezy and itchy than wool does.
We have two. A feather(i think and) down, and a woolen one. We always used to use both doonas in winter in Lancefield, and just the woolen one in summer (if anything). The feather/down ones are definitely so much more snuggly than the wool.