I purchased the twin-XL in purple. First of all I was excited to order these, since I have a hard time finding a set of purple TXL's. My room is purple. I live in MN so I like flannel sheets. They arrived in good time. I opened the package and they felt like cardboard. It said to wash them before use so I did. As I was taking them out of the washer and putting them in the dryer the pillow case was ripped where the tag was. It was a good 4-5 inch rip. It looked as though the seam was not sewn right. So I had to pull my sewing machine out to sew it. As I was making up my bed, I saw a flaw in the material up by the top of the sheet. The sheets were soft, but not Ultra-soft. Maybe they will soften up in time. When I buy something new, I don't like or want to sew it up. Also the flaw disappointed me too. Feel really bad about this review, but this is what happened.