What about getting a quilt?
There a cottage manufacturer out there that has a solo tent that big enough to hold your gears inside the tent. Lightheartgear.com or something like that. I threw out couple cottage companies so you can compare their prices to the deals you can get.

And welcome aboard!
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It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.-- Horace Kephart