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By Just Joe from Tampa Bay Area on 09/14/2009 Pros: Attractive Design, Comfortable Best Uses: Spring/Fall, Winter Describe Yourself: Budget Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: A truly Premium wool blanket. Much heavier and higher quality construction than expected. Still can't believe the price. What a value buy! Plan to give these to three teenage nieces for Christmas.
By Shark from Colorado Spings, Co on 09/14/2009 Best Uses: Spring/Fall, Winter Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I bought four even though knowing going in that they smelled like moth balls. I have friends from Switzerland and these are most likely from army surplus-good stuff. Down to the laundrymat, the industrial machine, Tide and baking soda. Hang them outside for a week, bingo smells like a wool blanket! Great for camping, the emergency blanket in the car or whatever!
By jo from Canada on 09/13/2009 Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend Comments: 10 washings and they still stink Now hanging on the fence probably stay there all winter. 20 washes the washing machine still stinks our smell = absolutly disgusting. Sierra will lose some of our business for this
Worth it to me, super warm blanket By busbusmaxmax from Homer, AK on 09/12/2009 Pros: Attractive Design, Comfortable, Easy To Clean Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I use the blanket for snoozin in my camper.
It was pretty stinky a la mothball when I got it; washed it a couple times with regular powder detergent and a healthy dose of Simple Green, in cold water.
It still stunk a bit after the second washing, but all wet wool stinks. I dried it on low until it was completely dry and it has no naphta smell at all now.
I use it all the time and it works great.
By Julia from Notre Dame, IN on 08/22/2009 Best Uses: Car camping, Picnics, Year-round Describe Yourself: Budget Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I read all the negative reviews about the mothball smell on this blanket and wondered if it was worth the risk, but I really, really wanted a wool blanket like this for camping, and the price is so great. Finally, I looked at the reviews voted most helpful and saw that the more determined people were able to get rid of the smell. I tried a variety of things, like soaking overnight in Dr. Bronner's Sal Suds (the all-purpose gentle cleaner) and baking soda, but that didn't seem to cut it. Finally I washed it with Tide and baking soda (letting it soak for a few hours before the rinse cycle). I know you're not supposed to use strong detergent on wool but somehow I figured that this blanket might be an exception since it seems so indestructible, and I just had the feeling that a mild detergent was not going to work, no matter how many hours of soaking. (Should wool that's been *boiled* still be treated as a delicate fabric? I don't know but I have to wonder.) Thankfully, the Tide took the mothball smell down to a faint, cozy-grandma's-cabin level that I can live with and didn't cause the fabric to self-destruct. Now I'm really happy to have these blankets (I took the plunge and bought two) for camping. The size is generous enough for two people to share, and I will probably be using them thirty years from now when I'm a rogue camping grandma myself.
By Baylee from Ferndale WA on 08/06/2009 Cons: Mothball odor initially Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I use these blankets as yoga props. We have two similar blankets purchased a couple of years ago from Sierra. Two washings of the blankets in the washer on the gentle cycle with wool soap and hanging them outside to dry pretty well eliminates the moth ball odor.
I should've listened to the others By CJ from Small Town, Montana on 07/28/2009 Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend Comments: Will my brand new front loading washer ever be the same again? I cannot get rid of the horrible smell from the blankets. Two washings did NOT remove the toxic moth ball/gasoline smell. I cannot believe STP would sell a product in this condition. While the quality and price of the blanket is great, it is not worth buying hoping you can eliminate the aweful smell. I would give this a minus rating if I could. By the way, mine were green, not the pretty brown in the picture. Sierra Trading Post Responded on 07/28/2009
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If you like the smell of moth balls... By JD_Bklyn from Brooklyn, NY on 04/09/2009 Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend Comments: While the blanket is probably very warm, getting away from the smell was impossible. I though it would be great for camping but even after airing the blanket, the smell will not go away. Even the dog was put off from the stink. I will have to return this. Sierra Trading Post Responded on 04/09/2009
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By Colorado skier from Marion on 04/07/2009 Pros: Attractive Design, Thick, Value Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Thick, but not as thick as the swiss are blankets I ordered from you guys a while back. They smell, but that is part of the charm. I may wash them as others have. I used a 25% off discount, which made them a very good value. I will be using them as extra blankets at the foot of the twin beds in our guest room.
By STP shopper from New England on 03/26/2009 Pros: Attractive Design, Sturdy Cons: Scratchy, Smells Toxic Best Uses: Moving Furniture Describe Yourself: Midrange Shopper Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend Comments: This could have been a great deal as a picnic blanket perhaps, certainly not the quality I would have on my bed however, it is inundated with the smell of moth balls which, even after running it through the hand wash cycle many times, smelled no noxious that our eyes and throats were burning from the smell left in the air and the next several loads washed now also smell like moth balls. Toxic!!! Too bad, it could be a nice sturdy blanket otherwise.
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