How to Put on a Quilt Cover

Wrestling a quilt or comforter into a cover can be enormously frustrating. Most of the other tasks in making a bed are quite simple, but completing this task can be time-consuming at best. However, with a couple of simple steps, you'll be able to change a quilt cover quickly and easily--and get on with the rest of your life.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Quilt
• Quilt cover
• Large safety pins (optional)

How to Put on a Quilt Cover

1. Make sure your quilt cover is turned right side out, is clean and is free of dust and lint. Spread the quilt cover on the bed, with the open end nearest you. Unfold your quilt and inspect it to make sure that your quilt is also completely clean and free of dust and lint. Making sure everything is clean before you use a cover on a quilt will extend the life of both your quilt and your quilt cover.

2. Identify the top and bottom ends of your quilt. Grasp the left-hand, bottom corner of your quilt in your right hand. Insert the corner into the opening of the quilt cover on the left side. Slide the quilt corner up the interior left-hand seam of the quilt cover until the quilt corner reaches the cover corner and fits inside the cover corner.

3. With your left hand, reach around the outside of the quilt cover and grasp the exterior and interior corner to keep them in place. If you wish, pin them together. Otherwise, keep holding them with your left hand.

4. With your right hand still inside the quilt cover, lightly grasp the bottom hem of the quilt, and move it to the right until you are grasping the right-hand corner of the quilt. Move that corner along the bottom hem of the quilt cover until the quilt corner is sitting inside the cover corner.

5. Remove your right hand. Pin the right-hand corners together if you wish. Grasp the two bottom corners of the cover and the quilt, making sure the quilt corners are still fitting in the cover corners if you haven't pinned them together. Lift the cover and quilt off the bed and shake gently so that the cover falls downward over the quilt. Once the cover is completely covering the quilt, lay it back on the bed.

6. Walk over to the open end of the quilt cover. Fasten the opening together with the buttons or snaps that keep the opening closed with the quilt cover is in use. Arrange on the bed as you see fit. It is more conventional to keep the open end of the quilt cover at the bottom so that fasteners don't get close to your face as you sleep.