{"title":"Valentines Blanket","description":"\u003cp\u003eValentine's Day is the shortest selling window in the catalog and the one people leave latest. Six weeks from the first week of January, and almost nothing after the fourteenth of February. That short run changes what is worth buying and how much to spend on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Valentines throw blanket is a gift far more often than a purchase for yourself. That single fact decides the design, the size and the color more than any question of personal taste does, and almost nobody shops it that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSix Weeks, Then Nothing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristmas runs four weeks and comes out again next year. Fall runs ninety days without a break. A Valentines blanket runs six weeks and then sits unused for ten and a half months, which is the shortest cycle anywhere in this catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat argues for one of two routes and against everything between them. Either buy the loud version and accept that a Valentines day blanket is seasonal. Or buy something reading as a heart or a color rather than a date, which then stays out all year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second route is usually the better purchase and almost always the cheaper one per year of use. Our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/heart-blanket\" title=\"heart designs\"\u003eheart designs\u003c\/a\u003e carry the motif with no occasion attached to it, and nobody looking at one in June thinks about February at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eGift First, Object Second\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of these leave the house wrapped, which reverses the usual advice on this site. The person choosing a Valentines throw blanket is not the person living with it afterwards, and the two apply completely different standards to the same object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuy for the recipient's room rather than for the holiday itself. A Valentine throw blanket in soft pink works in a bedroom that already owns pink and looks like an intrusion in one that does not. Colors travel better than slogans, every time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eText is the risk worth naming out loud. A Valentines blanket with words on it commits the recipient to displaying a message, and there is no quiet way to retire one of those. A pattern lets them keep it without announcing anything to visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePink, Red, or Neither\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree routes here and they are not equally safe over time. Pink is the softest of the three and the most likely to survive past February. That is why a pink Valentines blanket outlives the loud red versions in most households by several years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is the traditional choice and by far the most committed. A Valentines throw blanket in deep red reads as the holiday from across a room, which is exactly right for six weeks and exactly wrong for the other forty-six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/pink-blanket\" title=\"pink throw blankets\"\u003epink throw blankets\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/red-blanket\" title=\"red designs\"\u003ered designs\u003c\/a\u003e carry both palettes with no seasonal reference attached to either of them. That is the route to take for a gift you actually want to see used in July, and it costs the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat Size Valentines Throw Blanket for a Gift?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmaller than instinct suggests, in most cases. A gift blanket gets unwrapped, admired, and then has to find a place to live. A large one in the wrong color becomes a storage problem rather than a present, and everyone involved knows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable\u003e\n  \u003ccaption\u003eValentines throw blanket sizes by style\u003c\/caption\u003e\n  \u003cthead\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eStandard throw\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eSherpa throw\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eBest for\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003c\/thead\u003e\n  \u003ctbody\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eSmall\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 x 40\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e37 x 57\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eA gift, a chair, a dorm room\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eMedium\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50 x 60\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50 x 60\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne person on a sofa, the safe default\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eLarge\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60 x 80\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60 x 80\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eA couple sharing, or the foot of a bed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 60 x 80 is the one exception worth making here. It covers two adults on a three-seat sofa with room to spare, which is the only size on this page that serves the actual occasion rather than merely referencing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/small-throw-blanket\" title=\"small 30x40 throws\"\u003esmall 30x40 throws\u003c\/a\u003e cover the gift end across every design in the catalog. That is the better place to start when the date matters less than the size does. For a Valentines throw blanket bought as a gift, it usually should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBuy It in January\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe window opens in the first week of January and interest climbs steadily through the month. Buying a Valentines day blanket on the eighth of February is how people end up choosing from what remains rather than from what they actually wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is a calendar argument rather than a scarcity one, and the distinction matters. Six weeks is a short run for anything, and the designs worth having are the ones picked deliberately in the first week rather than the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Two-Person Question\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNobody asks it and it decides the size. A Valentine throw blanket bought for a couple has to work for two people on one sofa. Almost nothing at 50 x 60 actually does that once both of them are under it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Valentine throw blanket bought for one person is a different object entirely, and the smaller sizes serve it better. Decide which of the two you are buying before anything else, because no design choice fixes a size that was wrong from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere a Valentines Blanket Ends Up\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a bed, on a sofa for one specific evening, and in a photograph more often than most things here. A Valentines blanket is the one you spread flat rather than fold, because the design is the whole point and folding hides most of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStore it flat rather than crushed once February ends. Ten months in a box leaves creases that a six-week season never gives you enough time to shake out. They show badly on a Valentines throw blanket meant to be spread flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo more collections carry the same register with no date attached to either of them. Our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/bow-blanket\" title=\"bow throws\"\u003ebow throws\u003c\/a\u003e take the romantic look into the rest of the year, and the heart motif runs alongside both of them without ever naming a month.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/throw-blankets.com\/collections\/valentines-blanket.oembed","provider":"Throw Blankets","version":"1.0","type":"link"}