Does Your Bed Quilt Creep Away at Night?
 

I have a king size quilt on my bed and it's laying over a king size comforter. And every morning, the quilt and comforter have managed to "creep" down the foot of the bed - at least a foot. Does this happen to you? It makes me crazy because it's a pain to have to strip the covers and remake it every morning!

My top sheet always does that. since it's winter, i just use a blanket first, then the quilt. so far, so good.

It's probably because you have it on top of a comforter. I have a blanket and then the quilt and it stays in place. When I used a comforter with a quilted cover, it used to creep a lot.

Oh, this is helpful. I'll ditch the comforter and try a blanket under the quilt.

Yes, I too think that is the problem. I use my quilt over a top sheet and only gets messed up because of how I sleep.

I also have this problem in the winter but only a lightweight quilt on the bed in summer with no creep so my guess with my problem and yours is the weight of the quilt and comforter that are pulling it to the bottom of the bed.

I have my quilt on top of a blanket and it also "creeps." Drives me crazy.

It is probably because of the comforter. Especially if your comforter is slippery.

If it wasn't so cold in Connecticut, we'd use just the quilt to keep warm.....

My quilt is over a top sheet and still creeps down a bit. I like my shoulders covered and the back of my neck (I sleep on my side) so I feel like I'm constantly pulliing the sheet and quilt up at night. 100%cotton sheets, 100% cotton quilt with cotton or wool batting, so, go figure. The quilt isn't over-long either. I make quilts whatever size they turn out to be...they tell me, I don't don't often get to do more than 'suggest' a size to them! :D

Jan in VA

Me Too. I have a blanket and quilt on king size bed and it still does this and I have to redo every moring.

Well, with a 15lb cat sleeping on top of the covers it helps stop the "creeps":)

We use a fleece blanket with the quilt on top. No issues except hubby rolling himself up so I end up with very little over hang on my side. I just make sure to make the quilts very large to help remedy some of that.

I find if I use a flannel backing it keeps the quilt in place.

Well, I sleep with a "cover thief" --- so, I frequently wake up with no covers on!!!
I think the others nailed your solution - ditch the comforter.

Tonight, I'll try two quilts, no comforter. But I'm not expecting a miracle.

After reading back through these responses, I've come to this conclusion -- quilts, as many of us have known for a long time, have a mind of their own. They seem to get this trait from their Mothers, the fabric which makes them and which often 'talks' to the quilter who is helping them during birth. They have their own opinion about creativity and apparently have their own opinion about where they want to be; about traveling; about who will own them; about attracting 'friends' (also known as various pets of the household); and about how they will tolerate being washed.

I've sort of known these things, in the back of my mind, for a long time -- say 30 plus yrears -- but I now accept it as totally true. It does make the hair stand up on the back of my neck to realize that something so soft and comfy, made and given with love, can be as opinionated, stubborn, cantankerous, and downright annoying sometimes, as they are. One doesn't usually think of inanimate objects as having personality, but, as quilters and artists, we know better.
Creativity is alive!

Jan in VA (I'm just thankful they are not on my food bill!:eek:)

Use more than one quilt. :-). I love the weight of more than one quilt. Right now (my stage of life I guess) I am comfortable with one quilt and the sheet.

Also as mentioned above. The comforter is made of slick fabrics and therefore, everything will slide.

I have a long low dresser at the foot of our bed, I guess it acts as a footboard and stops all blankets and quilts from slipping down.

For those who don't have a footboard or space for a dresser, could you try a pillow (preferably a heavier one with down or memory foam crumbs) on top of the quilt and see if it acts the same as a cat by holding the quilt in place?

for a minute I thought you had the same problem as I do. Mine is a husband that loves to grab quilts. So I solved my problem by making all out bed quilts with long sides so he can't pull everything off and leave me freezing

I used flannel for backing on bed quilt and have no problem with sliding off or creeping which I do experience with a quilt without a flannel backing. I have a friend who only uses flannel for backing because of the ability to stay put and she thinks flannel makes quilts more snuggly. I am planning on using flannel more often for backing.

I have had the same difficulty. I sleep in a bed by myself and it's close to the wall. I stuff pillows between the bed and the wall and they hold the quilt tucked in for more than a week. I use pillow all the way down the wall so that all of the quilt/blankets is next to a pillow. I also tuck the quilt down into between the pillows and wall. I don't know what you'd do if you shared a bed with your husband. Maybe, like someone suggested, stuff pillows between blankets and foot board.

Yes, that is a big problem. I have restless leg syndrome. If I have a night with lots of leg activity, the bed looks like a platoon of soldiers marched through in the night!

I've been thinking about that, too. As it's getting harder to maneuver large quilts for FMG, and takes me so long to handquilt, I was thinking of tying one with a flannel backing instead.
But I am a bit concerned because I find I have been sleeping so sweaty down my legs and around my neck no matter how much I turn the temperature down. I sleep on my side with a pillow between my knees and a smallish rice/lentil-stuffed bolster pillow at my back. My sheets and mattress pad are 100% cotton; my one quilt is cotton with a wool batting. I do find the quilt has shifted overnight, though rarely off the bed.

Jan in VA

Creepy quilt
 

My quilts does the same thing it even has flannel on the back. I love flannel on the back of my winter quilts. I make queen size quilts for my bed oversized a little, but I make them like 94"x108 to 110 ". So their wider and long so my cover isn't robbed from me at night. That won't help the creepiest, but will be wider and longer always.One more thing about creepiest, I do have 3 quilts at one time on my bed. One other thing years ago, I went to a store that recovers furniture. They sold foam rubber, I had one cut the width of my bed and height I needed.. Covered it pad with fabric that would go with my bedroom. I put between my matteres and bed frame. It really helped with quilt sliding to bottom of bed. I use it all the time never make my bed without it. All I need to do now is recover the pad again with something else.