Questions fréquentes

For the smaller size, yes, comfortably, if you color the way most people end up coloring: outline a shape, fill the middle, leave some of the black showing. For the larger size, if you are determined to fill in every single petal solid, you will run some colors low before you reach the far corner. Green and pink go first, every time.

This is the number one complaint about every coloring blanket sold anywhere, so we would rather say it here than let you find out in week three. Any acrylic paint marker from a craft store works on this fabric and matches what is in the box. If you have picked the larger size and you know you are a finisher, buy a spare set at the same time and you will never think about it again.

Yes, if you color heavily. This is a single layer of printed flannel, not a canvas, and a saturated marker will push color through to the back and onto whatever is under it. Do not color it on a carpet, a good table, or a bed you like.

Put something down first. A flattened cardboard box or a few sheets of newspaper under the section you are working on solves it completely, and it has the bonus of giving you a firm surface, which makes the lines easier to follow.

Wait a full day after the last section you colored. This is the single thing that decides whether the artwork survives, and it is where people go wrong: they finish a big session at midnight and put it in the machine the next morning, and the color that had not fully cured moves.

After that: inside out, cold, gentle cycle, on its own the first time. Air dry it. Skip the fabric softener and skip the tumble dryer. Treated that way it goes back on the sofa and stays there.

It is a throw, and we want to be straight about that. The front has to be smooth for ink to sit on it cleanly, so it is a printed flannel rather than something thick and fluffy, and the back is a soft plain plush. It is the right weight for a lap, a sofa, an armchair, or over the top of a duvet.

It is not a heavy winter blanket and we will not pretend otherwise. If you want the one thing keeping you warm in January, this is not it. If you want something you colored yourself that lives on the end of the couch and gets grabbed every night, it is exactly it.

The honest answer is that it depends on the child, not the number. The markers are acrylic paint pens, so they are permanent on clothes, skin will need a scrub, and they have small caps. That means an age where pens do not go in the mouth, and an adult in the room.

The line shapes are large and clearly separated, so young children can fill them in and feel good about the result. Older kids and adults get more out of it because they can see how far it has to go. The most common thing customers tell us is that they bought it for a child and ended up doing most of it themselves.

It survives, and it is meant to. The markers are acrylic, which is the reason the whole thing works: permanent ink is what lets you wash the blanket at all. What you color in is there to stay.

That is worth understanding before you buy, because there is a different product on the market that rinses blank so you can start over. This is not that. Over a lot of washes the color eases a little, the way a favorite t-shirt does, but nothing you do in an evening is going to disappear. You are making a keepsake, not a whiteboard.