The easiest way would be to make a loop out of ribbon and hand-sew the loop on the corner. Double check where your duvet cover has its buttons or ties located. you want the placement to match as much as possible.

Oh. I was thinking I could make them out of scrap muslin or canvas? Guess I better research more!

Thanks Maddie ☺️

You just need the loop for seven nights? use what my Grandma used when she put itchy wool blankets inside cotton covers---safety pins.

I have used duvets and covers for years...never had a loop...never had to tie a corner of the duvet to the corner of the duvet cover. They lay flat by themselves.

All this is great news! I can use safety pins, even if they don't lay flat by themselves. I have big pins, and I don't know if anyone will use that bed. So this is perfect.

Many many thanks 🥰

I HATED duvet covers my entire life until I discovered the existence of duvets with loops! (And covers with ties.)

The one in my son’s room is missing a loop and I’ll admit the thought has crossed my mind to throw it out for that reason alone. But that’s lazy. My imperfect solution is generally to grab the corner, defluff it, and tie the ties very tightly around the "tail". Safety pins would work, but I'd just be sure to keep them small. Actually I think I’ve done that but they eventually bend/stretch loose. Now that I'm giving it real thought for the first time, I'm thinking an easy, proper solution would be to sew short lengths of flat sneaker shoelace to the corners.

While the needle and thread are out, I'd reduce the button holes to be borderline too tight, to resolve the second most annoying thing about duvet covers.

They sell duvet clips for the purpose. No sewing on ties and no holes from safety pins.

Duvets are ubiquitous here. Never ever seen a loop, clip or button in a corner. Never heard of such a thing. But curiosity lead me to search. Seems you can get them here. If it makes changing the cover easier I might even get some.

I didn't know about the clips and I've used duvets for years. I've sewn ribbon to the corner seams of comforters to tie into a duvet loop, or sewn ribbon into both if they came with neither....

But I too wonder if you really need to go to the trouble for a weeks worth of use when you don't plan on that being a forever use for your quilt.

The duvet I'm using on our own bed right now does not have loops or ties. I haven't bothered to add them. I have bothered DH to stand on a step stool and give them a shake from side to side and top to bottom for me , they are wide, long and heavy enough it makes them a little heavy for me to handle myself (I am not a big girl, and right now, having hibernated through much of winter, I don't feel especially strong in legs or arms either)

I used the Martha Stewart method of putting a duvet in a cover.

Turn the duvet cover inside out and place on top of the duvet. Reach inside the cover to the far corners of the cover and use your hands to grab the far duvet corners and pull, turning the cover right-side out in the process. As I get the far corners out, I let them go and reach in again to grab the near corners of the duvet through the duvet cover and pull them out. As you keep pulling and turning, eventually the cover is fully right side out with the duvet corners nestled nicely in the cover corners.

Backing up why do you want to use a quilt--but cover it up?????? Grandma can't be complimented.

I do start with the cover inside out as per MS method. But my arms simply aren't long enough, their span isn't wide enough and I'm not tall enough to wrestle a heavy king-size duvet into a cover without a huge amount of difficulty. Takes me ages.

P.s I do weight training, yoga and aerobics. Still have trouble with a duvet.

The clips were new to me, too. The ones I saw looked not-small. If you consider my comment above about using SMALL safety pins, you might surmise how I’d feel about having hunks of plastic in the corners!

But anyway, Rob, rereading your posts, for a temporary solution with your great-grandmother’a quilt that you don’t want to damage for a bed no one may even sleep in, I’d forego everythjng. If floral could go her whole life without - in beds she actually uses - you can go a few weeks without!

Yeah, floral, kings are tough for sure...lots of fabric and weight. That's when you need your bedmate to assist!

I always wonder how the hotel chamber maids manage to make the beds so quickly...kings with triple sheeting and all that tucking, and so many pillows.

It's a lovely quilt. I use it a lot. It was made by my great-grandmother. It has the most amazing little squares and I love to think about from where they came... dreamy. I don't own things that I won't use. Why use it in this instance?

I'm putting off buying an insert, because I've never owned a duvet; it just never even occurred to me that I should. I'm beginning to rethink it. Since I haven't researched the ins/outs and the pros/cons, I'm not ready. Yet, I have company coming and someone may use the bed. The cover itself looks like it needs something in it. And it would protect the quilt. Seems like a win-win here?

I could be wrong. I've been wrong a lot ;)