The Grand Experiment!

I know we're not in to the coldest part of Winter yet (we're actually in meteorological winter but in real life it's still fall for a bit) so none of this may work or be valid in a month or so but.... I'm running an experiment with my blankets!

Last Winter, I bought some fleece blankets (that Jason had already bought so I knew how effectively warm they were) on a really good boxing day sale and I put them away.  Last Spring, I bought a "summer weight" duvet and packed away my other one.  

When I bought the "summer" type duvet my plan was that around now-ish I'd swap it out for my winter stuff and pile on the blankets as usual.

But the duvet (silk, go figure) has been fine so far and so all I've thrown on it was my weighted blanket (my brother got me a few years ago) and a couple of nights I've put another blanket on top of that.

But I kept thinking about that fleece one I bought and wondering if I should do a grand swap of everything but that seemed like more effort than I had in me so I folded up the "other" blanket and put the fleece on top of the weighted which was on top of the duvet.  (Following?)

This has been fine?  But I started to wonder if I could make it even more heat capturingly effective, and I wasn't sure the weighted blanket on top of the duvet was a good idea so this weekend I randomly decided to switch things up!

I have a small version of the fleece blanket that I've used a couple of times on my couch over my regular couch blanket (what, I like to be covered, it's cozy!) and it's really good as a layer like that (almost too good right now at this milder time of year!) so I wanted to try to maximize its layering abilities in bed too.

So I readjusted my bed to have sheet, weighted blanket, fleece and duvet on top.  I was really curious to see how cozy it might be (and secretly worried I'd not notice any difference).  When I got in to bed that night I knew I couldn't have the texture/weight of the weighted blanket RIGHT against me, it just didn't work so I got up, stripped the bed again and put sheet, fleece, weighted blanket and duvet in that order.

Well, having a fleece on top of a sheet is quite lovely to begin with!  And the rest seemed to work out fine but I don't think it was particularly cold this weekend and so I can't really say if it was more effective or what?

But I think that even if it's not "OMG AMAZING!" I still like the idea of the duvet not being squished by the weighted blanket, I don't know.... I assume that's a thing?

So yeah, once we hit a stretch of brrrrr cold, I'll see if my current blanket experiment is successful or if I need to switch things up again.

Science, am I right? (heh)