How To Mend a Dog-Ripped Comforter

Last night, I had every intention of manicuring my nails. One home from work, I immediately traveled upstairs to change out of my work clothes into something more comfortable. However, what do I notice on the floor by the bed? The comforter. And what do I see hanging out of it and thrown all over the floor? The stuffing. Damnit! Dodger likes to chew and when you've been gone too long for his liking or during a time when you should be home, he finds something to take it out on. Yesterday, it was the comforter. Here's the damage:

 ripped comforter

the culprit

After dinner, instead of manicuring my nails, I grabbed my sewing kit and got to mending. I learned three things from this. First, this would have been a whole lot easier if I had a sewing machine. Let me rephrase. It would be a whole lot easier if I had a WORKING sewing machine. We have two. One is a janky hand-held machine that jams after two stitches. The other machine would be great, but we don't have the power cord for it. We have everything else, but no dang power source. Therefore, I was forced to sew by hand. Second thing I learned was that when mending by hand, I should work in shorter pieces. Not knowing any better, I cut off too long a piece of thread. That was dumb! It kept knotting and tangling and twisting and knotting again. It was a vicious cycle! Next time I will work in shorter pieces to prevent the knotting, tangling, and twisting. The final thing I learned was that this takes forever (or that I'm extremely slow). I'm probably really slow because it took me two episodes, sans commercials, of Criminal Minds (thank you Netflix). 

see the string hanging toward the left?

sorry about my face!

the mended result

Good thing this was on the back of the comforter because it doesn't look pretty! But, hey, as long as it keeps the stuffing in there, I don't care. I'm just thankful it was repairable because I didn't want to buy another one only to have it ruined. 

Happy Mending!

--Am