Has anyone repaired the lining of a blanket? The rest of the blanket is in great shape, but the taffeta lining has a huge rip/run in it. Mostly straight line. I don’t have a sewing maching capable of a blanket (nor would I trust myself to do that) but is there a way to glue or tape it together and hand-stitch? Thanks!
You can buy iron on seam tape or hemming tape for a more pro look.
I’ve used duct tape in a pinch on the inside so the duct tape isn’t touching the horse.
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The lining is usually the fist thing to tear on my blankets for some reason. When I send them for repairs, the best repairs have stitches all the way through the blanket, which affects the exterior waterproofing but is the sturdiest and easiest to keep from bunching.
I fixed one of mine with gorilla tape 
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Sometimes, a horse finds it necessary to pick up his blanket with his teeth and wave it around in the air. This can have consequences.
If it’s just a tear, I hand-sew it shut. But you can perfectly well patch them with a similar smooth fabric. Make the patch much bigger than the tear so that the stitching doesn’t overly stress the torn fabric edges.
I haven’t had luck with the stickability of duct tape or Tenacious Tape on blankets, outside or inside, for longer than a couple days.
Ha ha yeh that’s what I did with one of mine 
Me, too. And it has lasted years, and stayed on through washing many, many times.
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I had a liner repaired professionally. A few years ago my (late) gelding ripped a perfectly brand new Rhino Wug just in the liner. It’s now adorning my 14 yr old pasture puff and holding quite well. There was no way i could have repaired that properly myself.
Tenacious Tape all the way - washable, can’t be beat. Do not bother with non name brand versions.
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I have repaired many.
You absolutely could hand stitch. Rips often fray but that’s ok, it just looks messy on the inside. What I have done, as long as no material is actually missing, I will pin the liner in place, regular sewing pins are usually too weak and short for this, I use the biggest safety pins I can find because they are very sturdy, easier to push through the layers.
Once pinned, use a medium size needle and a regular weight thread, use a simple back and forth stitch, grab a bite of good material on one side -grab a bite on the other side and pull together. Sometimes if there is a lot of fraying you will lose size in the inner liner but if you have a large enough gap that it will affect the size then you need to insert a patch.
It may not look pretty but done this way it won’t affect the outer layer.
You can hand sew in a patch, just use lots of pins to hold things in place.
Once sewn you could use some ‘no-fray’ on the edges of the material and over the seam if it seems they might continue to fray.
Thanks, guys! I will look into all of the suggestions. Meanwhile, pony is wearing new pajamas bc either way I can’t fix it while he’s wearing it.
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