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Use a little speed sew on it.

Just sew it up with some wool yarn/cotton or something.

are you trolling the sub??

Not intentionally; just completely ignorant as to all things fabric repair. Why?

it's incredibly simple is all.

just take a needle and thread and a few stiches. it's surprising to me that it's not common knowledge.

Perhaps, but I've never learned to sew

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I mean, I could certainly just do that if I wanted to lol. But since I have no knowledge of this thing I wanted to seek out that knowledge because my desire is to repair it as good as I feasibly can, and I don't know what I don't know.

Something like Tear Mender sounds like a good option. I think what happened is that the corner of the blanket touched the fire ever so briefly and a few of those threads may have burnt away. I thought it only touched the fire for a split second and I wouldn't have thought that enough to do this, but who knows.

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That seems a bit hyperbolic to me; sewing has never really been a needed skill for me and not knowing how to sew hasn't really impacted my life in any way. And even if I did know how to sew, I would still seek specific knowledge related to wool. Hopeless is probably the least relevant word to describe me, because of the fact that I'm aware of my ignorance.

Tickly1, I am not sure you realize how discouraging your messages come across. OP is asking this sub in order to get help, not feel made fun of or looked down upon. I know you are sharing your honest reaction, but do you see how your reaction comes across as quite condescending? Sometimes “being brutally honest” is just being “brutal.” Not all of us learned all skills, and it should always be ok to ask :) there are many reasons why someone hasn’t learned a skill like sewing! For example I only learned to cook and sew in my 20s, because my parents tried their best but they had to work multiple jobs to pay all the bills, and often they just weren’t home or when they were, they were just too exhausted to teach skills like this. I learned other skills instead during my younger years, and I could help others with those when I was older. Consider being mindful that if someone is asking for help, they are being brave :) not knowing something and asking for help is always ok and shouldn’t be discouraged with judgement :) I hope you have a lovely day in any case! ❤️

na, just a bit of roasting; we all have our own little embarrassing laspses in knowledge.

but yea, i suppose the tone doesn't translate well with text.

Why the down votes? In my country we learn how to do this in elementary school. It really isnt hard to do, trust yourself.

Google how to do a slip stitch, or other basic mending stitches. You can fix this one yourself!

I wouldn't use any of the fabric glues on it. It can't be done invisibly because there are no overlapping flat surfaces, and you couldn't get it out of the wool once in.

You have two alternatives: If you stop into a sewing store, or perhaps even a Walmart, you can get needle and some button-strength thread to match, and give it try. I wrote some instructions below, on how I would mend it. Your other alternative is to take it to be mended, which would be inexpensive and completely worth it for a Pendleton blanket. Most dry cleaners have someone to do mending like this.

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This may be slight overkill, but one wants something sturdy for a blanket. Thread the needle, pulling the thread double, and knotting the two threads at the bottom. Begin sewing on the wrong side of the blanket, passing the needle through the bottom of that loose edge (the part that is already overcast with thread) and wrap the thread around that same bound edge, and come back up between the two threads to anchor it.

Then it is simply a matter of overcasting between the bottom of the loose edge and the blanket, around and around to secure it, making sure you far enough into the blanket to get to the securely woven part of the fabric. I would do extra stitches at the outside edge for strength.

When you have done this, with the thread on the right side, cut your thread in two by the needle. Then rethread one thread, and pull it through in one place; remove the needle, go back to the other side and rethread the other thread on the needle, poking it through in a slightly different place. Tie the two ends to anchor. You don't usually need to do this for mending, but given a blanket is a coarse weave, it will be the most secure.

Just sew it

You can sew it. There are lots of simple sewing sites online. Take your time and go slowly and you can do it.

Look up a tutorial online on how to do a blanket stitch, then get yourself an embroidery needle or a needle with a large eye in it and some wool thread from a craft store like Joann Fabrics or Michaels. They should have it in the embroidery section all together, but the employees are generally pretty nice and get beginners questions all the time if you get lost. Buy yourself a sheet of cheap felt from the kid's craft section while you're there.

Once you get home, practice the blanket stitch a couple times on the cheap craft felt until you're comfortable enough that you won't tangle your thread when you go to repair the actual blanket. Make sure when you're stitching that,you stitch a little bit further than the actual damage so that the threads don't continue to unravel past the repaired portion. If the tutorial for the blanket stitch doesn't tell you how to tie off your sewing, there's a lot of other tutorials online that will.

Good luck OP! If I can make a suggestion, pick a color of thread that doesn't perfectly match the damaged ones but looks nice with the blanket so people can see your mending. You worked hard on it and it's nice to show off a skill you learned.

I didn’t downvote them, but in my opinion they came off somewhat judgmental that I didn’t know how to sew lol. Guess what, in elementary school we did not learn how to sew. Not everyone has the same experiences as everyone else.

For the record, I didn’t give you downvotes on any of your comments : )

I’m not handy at all and hate throwing things away. My dry cleaner is a wiz at sewing and repairing cloth and wool items. It’s not typically cheap but they do extend the life of a lot for me.

Blanket stitch is very easy to do and easy to learn and sturdy. Heck, it’s great on blankets! If you’re going to own BIFL things then mending is a great skill to learn. This is a really easy one to start with!

You can’t sew?

That is correct

r/visiblemending may be able to help

Just sewing it is fine, but if the corners get a lot of wear and tear, you can also add on bias tape to protect them.

A nearby tailor shop or dry cleaner can usually sew or modify things quickly and neatly, and they’re often very inexpensive.

I second what most people are saying about sewing. But if you want to try something else, I've been pretty successful patching wool with needlefelting. I bought a small needle felting kit and patched a bunch of moth holes on my wool blanket. It's a very visible patch, but was fun to do.

It's definitely fixable.

Dry cleaner shop near me does alterations, etc. Always pleased with the work when the lady there sews up my fraying cuffs on work shirts. Very affordable, too.

Maybe an option for you. And for a Pendleton, perhaps even a regular tailor shop?

Needle felting is so dang satisfying, too.