Beautiful Flannel Sheets and Bedding

As temperatures dive down across Canada, we’re dutifully digging out our old plaid flannel sheets and duvet covers (you know the ones!). While these cozy, brushed-cotton sets stave off the ever-present winter chill, this year we’ve found flannels that consider both style and function. So, let’s dive in! Check out our top 10 picks for the coziest and most stylish flannel sheets and bedding you can buy this year.

Zara Home Flannel Quilt and Throw Pillow cover with contrast check print stacked against a white background

Chapters Indigo

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Cream of the Crop

Let’s start with the classics — flannel and plaid have long been bedmates (ha!). Rather than a traditional bold tartan (think the red and greens of a Royal Stewart), use these new OUI organic-cotton flannel sheets as their own neutral. Mix them with other textured creams and soft greys for a luxurious layered look.

OUI Organic Duvet Cover Set, Chapters Indigo, From $260.

Skylark & Owl

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History Lesson

Flannel originated in Wales in the 17th Century, when local wool was tightly woven and then brushed to create a fuzzy, heat-trapping texture. The technique then moved to North America, where cotton was abundant and became the material we know today. This organic flannel sheet set goes back to basics with its natural cream colour and buttery softness.

Organic Flannel Sheet Set, Skylark & Owl, From $219.

Woolrich Flannel Sheet Set made with 100 per cent cotton featuring a Nordic themed geometric pattern of creams, whites and blue on a made bed with two pillows

Costco

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Nordic Nights

Hygge is in full effect with this Scandi-inspired blue-stitch flannel sheet set. Light a few candles and hunker down under layers of brushed cotton and fluffy down with a delightfully dark Danish novel and steamy mug of seasonal glogg. Bliss!

Woolrich Flannel Sheet Set, Costco, From $40.

Zara Home

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Windowpanes to Our Soul

This oatmeal windowpane check is a modern take on a more traditional plaid pattern. The repetitive squares and warm neutrals of this machine-washable quilt create a sense of calm, which is exactly what we’re looking for in our winter bedding.

Check Print Flannel Quilt, Zara Home, From $269.

Grey and white flannel throw pillow cover with a check print on a bed in a darkened room

Zara Home

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Throw Down

Thanks to its tightly woven fibres, flannel is amazingly resistant to wear and tear — in fact, it often gets softer and more beautiful with age (just like us!). Its durability makes it an ideal fabric for throw pillows, which get fluffed and squashed on the daily.

Flannel Throw Pillow Cover, Zara Home, $36.

Crate & Barrel

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Spruce It Up

With spruce green on one side and cream on the other, this organic-cotton flannel sheet set and duvet cover gives you decorating options. Flip and swap as the mood and season changes — variety is the spice of life, after all.

Organic Cotton Flannel Spruce Green Duvet Cover, Crate & Barrel, From $270.

HBC Signature Sterling Stripe Flannel Duvet Cover Set on a large grey upholstered bed in a chic black bedroom with grey floors and a knitted rug, a cane chair with a stack of books and white cup and saucer, and a white pendant lamp hanging from the ceiling

Hudson's Bay

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Earn Your Stripes

Hudson’s Bay’s iconic Sterling Stripes move from blankets to flannel bedding, layering soft-brushed cotton on top of more soft-brushed cotton. While these flannel sheets are made in Portugal — a European hub of flannel production — the design remains classically Canadian.

HBC Signature Sterling Stripe Flannel Duvet Cover Set, Hudson’s Bay, From $180.

L.L.Bean

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Best in Snow

L.L.Bean’s Ultrasoft Comfort Flannel is legendary in the bedding world — it’s held up as the gold standard. Resistant to shrinking, pilling and fading, these flannel sheets and duvet covers are made to last. (And aesthetically, you can’t go wrong with the versatile Feldspar Stripe!)

L.L.Bean’s Ultrasoft Comfort Flannel Comforter Cover, L.L.Bean, From $55.

Cantex

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Roll Up, Roll Out

Rolled up in a basket next to the couch or flung on the back of a deep-seated armchair, these brightly striped flannel blankets are versatile — and very economical.

Striped Flannel Blanket, Cantex, From $19.

Eddie Bauer Rookeries Flannel Sheet set from Amazon.ca on a dark grey upholstered bed with a patchwork quilt comforter and four pillows, in a bedroom with wood floors, a cream coloured rug, and a wooden bedside table with hairpin legs and book and mug on top

Amazon Canada

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Fluffy Flock

With their heat-insulating and softer-with-every-wash properties, flannel sheets are the ideal bedding for Canadian winters. As such, there’s also a huge selection of fun, seasonal-themed prints that would be right at home in a guest room over the holidays — or even a kid’s bedroom year-round.

Eddie Bauer Rookeries Flannel Sheet, Amazon Canada, From $56.