Hi There…Horsey Gal here with a new first time learning experience!  What do you do when somebody wants you to repair a filthy dirty, coated with mud horse blanket without laundering it first?

I received a call from a lady that needed a blanket repaired.  She said it was only a little dirty, and it needed a new leg strap.  She suggested meeting at the local feed store so I could pick it up.

When we met, she pulled out this crusty dirty old blanket.  On the phone she insisted it was just slightly dirty.  I felt a sorry for her because it sounded like she couldn’t afford the price of laundering…but said I will see what I can do.

After I got it home…I tried fixing the leg strap, and sure enough my machine quit in the middle of it!  It looked like my needle was sticking, and it wasn’t sewing right!   After I got it rushed to the repair place…now remember these sewing machines weigh around 70lbs so please make sure you have help when you’re moving them, he got it fixed pretty quick for me.  He looked at it while I was there, and pulled out the mechanism, oiled and cleaned it, and it put it all back together for me.

So this is my new rule…I got it from Karen’s Book..

From now on, if the customer can’t say they would sit at their dining table with this blanket in their lap or on the table, then it for sure needs to be washed!

Happy Ending…I washed the blanket for her, and got it repaired…and she paid me for both the repair and the laundering and was very happy with it.  She went on to tell her friends about the great repair job and how good her blanket looked afterward.  I didn’t let on about the machine breaking, because I didn’t want her to feel bad, and it kept her as a customer and she gave me referrals!

Hope you are finding my insights helpful…Until next time…happy horse blanket repairing.

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