We were disappointed to see the Nuzzie Knit Weighted Blanket’s stitching (which anchors the end of the “yarn” to the blanket itself) loosening up over the course of the few weeks we tried it. We also noticed a bit of T-shirt–like fuzzing after drying this blanket. The Nuzzie blanket comes in bed sizes (twin, full, queen, and king), each heavier than the next size down, so the feel of the weight on your body isn’t drastically different with any given size because the pressure is dispersed. And yet the 15-pounder we tried—which was the size of a full-size bed, as opposed to a throw, in the case of the Bearaby Cotton Napper—still required a full-size machine to wash it. The Nuzzie is a beautiful blanket, though, and some people may prefer it to the Bearaby blanket. Instead of cotton yarn, it’s made of a sleeker-feeling microfiber encasing filled with recycled plastic. As a result, in our experience it was less heavy and wet going from washing machine to dryer, and it took less time to dry. We tried the redesigned Nuzzie blanket in our 2022 testing but found that the new version was heavy and unwieldy. One tester described it as being “comically large.” We ordered the 20-pound queen blanket in sky blue, which enveloped every tester who tried it, looking like a scene out of a Dr. Suess book. The Nuzzie blanket also became nearly impossible to carry from the washer to the dryer, as it held 9 pounds of water, and it took nearly three full cycles in the dryer (and even then it still had some damp spots here and there). If you try the Nuzzie blanket and don’t like it, you can return it within 30 days of arrival for a refund; a $20 processing fee applies (but is waived if the packaging is unopened).
