Repairing a fly rug . . . .

[awelshandawarmblood]

I have a playful youngster who keeps shredding my other horses fly rug playing! The battered rug is an Amigo Aussie so a cotton type material, I'm loathe to send it off for repair as this is obviously going to go on all summer!

Would Iron on patches with glue around the edge be suitable to fix it & has anyone tried? I'd put it on the outside so as not to rub.

Any help much appreciated!

 

[poiuytrewq]

If you don’t mind how it looks too much, I got an old sheet and sew patches to my ponies fly sheet. He’s super old but bit of a serial fly sheet ruiner!

 

[Shilasdair]

Buy a cheap white pillowcase from a supermarket, then use it to patch the Amigo (they are thin enough to be no problem to a sewing machine).

 

[Widgeon]

My horse got his leg caught in the leg strap (I think!) and ripped the whole rug right accross the middle. He then climbed out of the hole. I'm torn (sorry) between being very glad I didn't see it and wishing I had seen it just to know how on earth he did it.

I got a long reel of cotton webbing, about 1.5" wide, and used that to patch mine back together - zigzag stitch on either side to put the shredded edges of rug together again. It's held up really well and the rug is still in use. The benefit of the webbing tape is that it doesn't need any sort of hemming.

 

[cauda equina]

I've patched a ride on fly rug with a bit of spare leg strap

 

[Fjord]

I've repaired Boetts when it's been a straight rip (not a hole) using a close zig zag on the sewing machine. Holes have been patched with scraps of material or webbing tape

 

[Carrottom]

For small holes I cut patches from an old rug and stuck them on with copydex.

 

[Carrottom]

To deter the rug ripping I used nettex anti crib gel along the top of the rug and on the tail flap.

 

[awelshandawarmblood]

Thank you all for the advice! I was all prepared to fix it as it was only the one right angle tear yesterday . . . . today it was literally shredded into streamers so it's a bin job - past the point of no return!

Off to invest in a Rambo protector & rinse the credit card. Hopefully that'll withstand his teeth!!!!

Thanks again!

 

[Fransurrey]

For small holes I cut patches from an old rug and stuck them on with copydex.

I've done this, too. It works pretty well. The last repair used bits of my OH's old jeans, though. I'm done buying new rugs for horses with sweet itch!!