I'm leaving a very thorough review. Because when buying this blanket, I spent so long deciding and researching, it would have been faster for me to grow a cotton field, and then harvest, spin and weave the cotton into a blanket myself. So to save the next poor mother who just wants to know what they're in for, so they don't get yelled at by their overly opinionated and picky spawn, I mean child, here's the real deal on this blanket. Colour is as shown in photo, we got the lilac color. It's pretty. It's very soft for a cotton weave blanket, especially the top. My daughter always checks which side is softer on blankets, and yes, she uses this one the top side down because it's softer. No it's not fluffy soft, it's not like fleece, but I wouldn't expect that from a cotton woven blanket! There's only so much cotten can do, people. I actually expected her to hate it because she's used to fluffy fleece. I nearly got a strip torn off me about the difference between fluffiness and softness the first time she used it. Texture police over here. But, I bought it for hot summer nights because sleeping with no covers is weird for my daughter. I agree, only weirdos sleep with no covers. On one particularly hot night, I reminded the texture police about the lilac blanket for such a time. She relented, and 10 hours later declared that it's great and loves it and must use it for always. It alone is perfect on hot nights. On cold nights she uses this plus a fleece blanket and is plenty warm. And her bedroom gets bitterly cold. Like Elsa's cold, dead, heart kind of cold. The blanket is some magical material that keeps you cool in hot weather, and warm in cold weather. It's probably woven from the dreams of fairies, by the nimble hands of keebler elves, retired from the treehouse cookie factory. Or unicorns. I don't get it, but Princess Opinion is happy, so I'm happy. I washed it 3 times just to make sure it was de-linted. No lint for princess. But it didn't need the 3rd wash, it barely gave off any lint in that dryer cycle. And only an expected moderate amount in the 1st even. I washed and dried it on cold for the first 2 whole cycles because it said so on the care tag. It was painful because my dryer sucks and only has a 10 minute cold timer. I gave up on cold drying after the 3rd cold wash and instead of running downstairs a hundred times to reset the dryer, I just set it to regular medium heat. At that point I didn't care if it shrank to be Barbie sized because my thighs were screaming for No. More. Stairs. But it didn't really shrink that much. I'm sure it shrunk a little, ok it for sure shrank a little, but I don't know exactly how much. I didn't measure it before, nor will I measure it now because it more than covers my daughters twin bed. If I can tuck her in and get outta there at night, I'm not looking back. And good luck remembering to measure it in the morning. Ain't nobody got time for that. Can't comment on threads pulling or not, as we don't own a cat and our Clifford sized dog can't heft herself up onto our beds. So no threads have pulled out, but we haven't put it to the test in that way. Nor will we. Not taking in any more bodies to care for here. For the love. It's a good blanket. Pretty, soft, not too warm, not too cold, washes well. I'd buy it again. Considering one for the master bedroom.
