How do you get your quilt inside the cover?

[WhoTookTheCookie]

I love fresh bed clothes.
The smell, the texture, literally everything about them.

I don't mind stripping the bed or washing the linen or drying it.

I am more than capable of putting the sheet on and the pillow cases, but the duvet cover...

The BASTARD duvet cover.

It ends up lumpy, one corner won't go in properly, one side is too bunched up.

I shake and shake the cover but it just doesn't want to co-operate.

I've spent many a night fighting with the fucking thing (and LOSING!)
Currently, I turn the duvet cover inside out grabbing the corners, I pick up the quilt and flip it the right way and then shake.

Are there any other ways of doing it? Am I missing a trick somewhere?

@Noragrey so it does work with narrow openings?

I don't struggle when the opening is full size, only when I'm trying to stuff an entire double duvet through a small opening....

It'll be tricky if the opening does not reach right across. I think this was my problem when I tried the roll-up method. Coupled with a thick duvet everything got into a complete tangle. The woman I watched on YouTube was fitting a "comforter" that was no thicker than a couple of blankets. I might have another go, though!

Thanks @GrannyHaddock - I've tried but with a small opening it remains a bastard bugger of a job. Would be piss much easier with a big hole...

With HUGE difficulty and I'm glad it's not just me! We have a king size bed with a super king quilt for drapage purposes and I HATE changing it. I have MS and a shoulder problem and it exhausts me. Going to try the inside out method suggested on here though!

Boast post to say I'm in the middle of doing beds, read this and timed myself putting KS duvet cover on. 2min 5sec. And not sweating.

Lay cover out on bed.
Pick up duvet by top corners. Hold them both in your right hand (left corner underneath right corner)
Open up cover with left hand.
Push right hand into cover, aiming at top left corner.
With left hand, grab outside top left corner of duvet through the cover. Hold on tight.
Right hand guides top right corner of duvet into corner of cover.
Left hand hangs on to top right corner as well.
Right hand out of cover, takes right corner from left hand.
You now have a 2 corners of duvet inside the cover.
Lay it out on the bed and shake hard up and down, banging the mattress if you need to!
Then position it properly on the bed, with the top of the duvet under the pillows and the bottom by the footboard. You can then carefully guide the rest of the duvet into place inside the cover, this is useful if the opening is quite small. Once the bottom corners are in place, hang on to them and shake again. Lay it down and do up the opening buttons.

PS I have quite short arms and can't stretch the full 240cm width of an IKea duvet cover. But this method works every time, for any size. 👍

I found plenty of covers with zips on EBay and Amazon. Could they put an end to all this diving, clutching, clothes pegs, hairbands, flapping and shaking? Has anybody got one?

I was a convert to the burrito method a couple of years ago - it meant bed refreshes went from being a two-person to a one-person activity