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Wide awake at a quarter to five. Loving this cool weather, the heavy doona is so comforting.
I need to move back to the heavy doona, I've still got my light summer doona on the bed and needed the electric blanket last night.
As a bonus that means I will get to use one of my new (to me) fancy patterned flat sheets I was given, which will match the doona covers for the heavy doona perfectly. I have king sized wool doonas for winter & have moved to folding them between two sheets instead of using an actual cover, which is easier to change (especially because the covers have shrunk or something and don't fit well). I like the patterns on my covers so I have cut and hemmed them to be the flat sheet on top and the two patterned sheets I was given will match them really well as the folded over top sheet.
I've also moved to having flat sheets on the bed instead of fitted. I was getting frustrated with fitted sheets that had been cut without enough fabric on the sides and with dodgy elastic, so I was planning on making fitted sheets from the flats, but I have found that just using them as is has been working fine too so I think I'll just stick with that.
Flat sheets are my go to. I hate the dodgy elastic too. Protip - when putting a flat sheet on as a bottom sheet, tuck in the top edge first with a generous flap under the mattress. Then it is less likely to wrinkle into a puddle over the course of a week. EDIT: the bottom end tuck under can be a lot less generous and still stay in place.
There is also the old time method of using last week's top sheet as the next bottom sheet, so only 1 sheet per bed has to be washed each week.
I found the sheets I have are not very generous with sizing for the flat sheets either, there was not enough fabric to actually tuck under at the top or bottom of the mattress. If it is an issue I will sew an extra length of fabric on to allow tucking, but so far it has stayed on well anyway.
Yeah, tucking does depend a bit on how much 'vigorous exercise' happens too.
Well, not much from me. Mr Woof sometimes gets a bit enthusiastic in his rolling around and he's been known to rip the doona off the bed to show dominance to passing delivery people, but so far the sheet has escaped unscathed ๐คฃ