Hello, hello, it's Stacy from Trilly Majestic. Today I'm going to be sharing with you three different blankets that I have knitted up over the last few years and how they handled daily usage or some of them aren't daily usage. So you'll be able to see up close how they actually look and no matter what you do with a wool-roaming blanket it will shed. No matter how much you felt it it will shed to some extent. Definitely make the shedding less. So first of all please guys please share this video to your timelines on Facebook or Pinterest or wherever you share videos because I think this is really important for people to know that these blankets just don't hold up and you might be spending hundreds and hundreds on making. One of these beautiful, billowy blankets to begin with but in the end they do definitely flatten and they shed. So please share this and help your fellow arm knitters understand what actually happens to these blankets. So this green one gets got knitted up and I used it on top of you know on top of my couch and also we did actually end up using it under our bedding as a mattress top or for a while which is why it got really really flat. So it still looks great and it still is super warm but it definitely flattened and it didn't keep its billowyness because we were sleeping on it. And I felt that one up like mad in the washing machine. So it was the best out of all three of these. You can see how this one is felting up and peeling and we are using this one as a mattress to this is white, iter, top wool roving and I did slightly felt it in the washing machine to begin with although I wasn't too worried about felting it really good because we were going to be sleeping on it and underneath a you know it's underneath our sheets so it's not going to be shedding everywhere. You can see if you wanted to pull this yarn apart and unravel it and knit it into something else it has actually kind of piled and felt it together so you would really have to yank it because it has the whole blanket has started felting together. And it still looks pretty good you can use it on the couch you can use it you know under as a mattress topper like we've done because it makes your mattress so much more breathable and it's cool in the summer and warm in the winter and this just amazing amazing wool to use for a mattress topper. I'll put a link in the description how I made this and the cheapest wool I could find on the planet to you to make this which was really incredible because it's like 20 kilos of wool and it is so warm. Sorry that's not 20 kilos it's 10 kilos of wool which is 22 pounds. The last one really got destroyed and I knitted this up into a carrot blanket unraveled and knitted it loads of times just like the green one actually but the main difference is I put this one after a while into a synthetic polyester duvet cover and that was apparently not the right thing to do so this got used as a quilt on top of us or a duvet and the synthetic polyester cover basically destroyed the blanket so this is not something that you want to do because we thought maybe it'll shed less you know it's a little nice and cozy warm but it'll shed less all over the house and ourselves if we put it in a cover and that was definitely not the thing to do so it's full of these little pillars and it looks really dreadful it looks like something that should be made into a dog bed now so please don't do that with your covers they all of these blankets do shed to some extent but they are all well felted up and I use the washing machines I use the washing machine to felt them up and this is what they look like after several years of use so do take caution and take note if you want to make a wool rolling they will change they will not be huge and fillowy like they originally are but it does depend on your use you just sit there on the couch and you don't touch it if you're driving your car okay if you sit on the couch and never use it then it'll stay big and billowy but if you want to use this beautiful nice toasty warm blanket they do wear and after probably 10 years they'll have even more pillars probably so this was all of these blankets have two to three years of use and this is how they look so I'll just let the video continue to play it's about seven minutes long and you can just see the up close you know what I've done with each blanket I felt it all these up in the washing machine slightly to begin with and some of them the orange and the green one definitely got knitted more than the white one and I also put video links of me actually knitting you know when I first started knitting it was really puffy and beautiful and you can see the original state of the wool roving and also where I bought them all that will be in the description so enjoy the video please do share this just to get this information out to other arm knitters it is really important they understand how this is going to look after a few years thanks for watching bye you you