Putting the Cover on a Duvet

Yesterday I changed the sheets on my bed. This morning I put a clean cover on the duvet. When I first got a duvet, I looked on line to find a relatively easy way to put the cover on. I am here to tell you that when your duvet is a queen size, there is really no easy way! This is how I do it.

I lay the duvet out smoothly on the bed. Then, making sure the cover is inside out–this is important– I lay it on top of the duvet. It is also important to make sure the bottom opening is at the bottom. And that the buttons or snaps or zippers are OPEN. {I learned this the hard way. }

Next, I have some small clips {Amazon sells EVERYTHING} which I use to snap the top corners of the naked duvet  to the cover. Now, here comes the fun part! I insert my arms into the cover and grab the upper corners with my hands. Now, at this point, if you have a small duvet and cover, just pull your hands down towards you and the reversed cover turns itself over and goes neatly on to the duvet. If you have a queen size cover–and if you are me–you pull as much down into the cover as you can and then you manhandle and stuff the rest inside. Next, fasten up the buttons or snaps or or zipper.

At this point, the cover is the right way round but although the duvet is fastened at the corners inside, it is a messy bumpy clump. Now this is the point where I always feel this won’t work, and it always does. Pick up the duvet by the two bottom corners and shake it as much as you can. Then go to the top and/or the sides and  do the same thing. It usually takes me three to four sharp snapping shakes, and like magic, the duvet spreads out and settles down! Duvet magic!

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier. It is not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

PT: Same old stuff.

1. Make a bridge with my back and then do straight-line leg raises {Sometimes I use the Big Ball here.}
2. Lie on side so  left leg is on top. Bend knees and do clam lifts. Repeat on the other side.
3. Lie on side so left leg is on top. Bring right leg up into a bend. Lift top leg making sure I am using the muscles in my hip and not my back! Repeat on other side.
4. Wall slides. There us only one place in this apartment where I have enough free wall to lean against and slide my back down!

When I started the exercises, I did only five at a time then a pause and then five more. Now I can do 10, pause and then five more. Mostly!