Hi All…HorseyGal here again, reporting to you live from my work room!  Let me tell you…I just love this new blanket repair business!

I’ve been telling friends how much fun it is going to different barns and meeting new people.  There is nothing better than being appreciated for fixing blankets that look like they are beyond repair!

If gives such a sense of accomplishment, and pride to make something look so good when you are done!  I think sewing has become a thing of the past because of how cheap clothes are to buy.

I learned to sew from my mom when I was really young.  She made all my clothes because “off the rack” clothes were too expensive.  In fact she teases me that she would hate to sew patches…and I say give me a patch over button holes and making sleeves fit any day!

So here I sit with the smell of clean horse blankets, and see the accomplishments I have made and how happy my customers will be when they see their dirty old blankets looking pretty darn good!

I would say the trickiest ones I have come up against are the ones that have ripped the belly surcingles off.  Because you have to remove some of the heavy webbing in order to reinforce it so you can reattach the surcingle strap.

Those take a little more time and more fabric for patching.  I charge accordingly.  But if it looks like the repair is going to be more than what the blanket is worth, I call the customer to make sure they want it repaired.  I only do this if it’s going to way too time consuming to fix it.

I’ve had one complaint so far, and that was that I had used black webbing to replace a leg strap on a blue baker blanket instead of a blue strap.  So that taught me I had better have a variety of webbing on hand so that everything matches.  When in doubt, match it!

Okay…I’m going to sign off for now.  I will keep you posted on the horse blanket repair business!

To learn more about starting a horse blanket repair business…click here.

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