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Washing your Rococothrow

Hi there! The weather wants to saw Florida off of the country. Unfortunately as I live in Florida that means I have to deal with its attempts. (At current I’m chilling in the garage with a family member’s dog. She’s a little miffed.) While prepping for family to evacuate here, I had an opportunity to do some product testing…

I got to wash one of the blanket samples to see if it would bleed or rough up or generally make itself a problem. So, these blankets are 100% polyester. Which makes them pretty forgiving as far as machine washing goes, but it can make drying a little finicky (heat can damage the material and make it rougher, and this isn’t unique to this manufacturer. It’s just a thing. Life is hard.) The pictures on this post are from after washing it, and don’t look different than my initial sample photos at least to my eye.

For my experiment I ran the moth and friends blanket through a wash load for the first time.

The blanket has wash directions but realistically I’m going to default to washing it a set way, so I did that. I set the washer to bulky/sheets mode, cold water wash. This load contained the blanket plus two towels (one white and one black, one to check for colour bleed and the other to spread the detergent out more; using too much detergent for a load can damage the fabrics). I used one regular Gain detergent pod placed in the detergent slot. After it was clean (and I had to wring it out because our washer is trying to die a long, slow, suitably operatic death) I tossed it in the dryer with some wool balls to help the process, set it to low heat and then fucked off for like an hour and a half.

Results are good! No signs of discolouring, fading or colour bleed that I could find. The material (100% polyester) is still super soft on both sides, and the Sherpa lining seems fluffier than before. So it holds up in the short term, though of course I will not know about its longevity over months or years for a while yet (unless I deliberately subject it to Horrors maybe, but then I have to make parameters and guidelines. I will consider it.) I’ll throw something in the shop about it when I can.

… though right now I’m very tempted to listen to the rain and nap. I hope you’re having a good week. Stay safe if you can, friends. Thanks for reading

bonus: obligatory dog tax (sorry for photo quality, the first was taken on an ancient iPad that refused to focus while my hammock tried to spin me away from the Beast). This is Felicity she’s almost 10 and wants to fight god. Currently she’s hiding under a towel from the evil rain though.

Quick peek at the before (bottom left) and after of my latest updated piece! (Tumblr murdered the clarity, please click!)

This is another of the Swarovski crystal necklaces I made a while back, that I redid with newer and nicer materials. The leaves are glass, with new Czech glass interspersed with the large Swarovski facets. New shiny rosary bead chain too.

Watch for Elegant Autumn to show up when my shop reopens!

I'll have better photos once I get a light box. For now, click to get past the worst of the pixellation ;)

So I had this brief, delusional period after getting the sample blanket in where I thought I’d keep it long enough to quality check and grab pictures, and then sell it. That is not happening; this is my reading blanket now.

The fauxfur side is much warmer against you than the plush side. I like running my hands over the material, and how vibrant the print looks. It also has a subtle shine that you can mostly see where the fabric bunches up. I’ll have to design more patterns.

The last photo is strangely dull; I’m always a little worried about editing colour on mobile, so I left it as is. The blanket has rich, bright colours closer to the second image than the others. I’m especially pleased with how bright the Luna moth looks.

My life is an ~*~adventure~*~☆♡