Mend it, or toss it?

[smudge ★]

This WAS a real nice wool blanket from HoSmudge's folks' house. He put it in his shed at camp, and the squirrels got to it. Do you think I could mend it? I'd hate to toss it. Suggestions?

[BR46]

Use it as is.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

Let's just say I wouldn't expect the squirrels (present company excepted!) to be toilet trained...

I, with regrets, would toss it.

[Longjohn ★]

Holy blankets that would take a lot of patching.

[jsharr ★]

mend it.  use squirrel pelts as patches

[Wilbur ★]

Sorry for the loss.  Urine soaked wool is the worst!   

[Zealot]

Mrs Z would salvage what’s still usable and repurpose it. 

[Airehead]

Make a pillow

[ChrisL]

I’d toss it but the lower section and the left section on the image looks salvageable. Pieces from the upper section could patch the smaller holes.

Not sure what you would do with a blanket that small though. 

[Kirby]

Do you quilt?  If so, I'd cut some patches out of the blanket and use it in a quilt.    If you don't want that big of a project, you could quilt a pillow.  Or if you have some nice pics of the family, you could do a frame with some of the pictures of his family/house  etc, with a piece of the blanket and maybe something  else of sentimental value.

[Bikeguy]

29 minutes ago, Airehead said:

Make a pillow

[shootingstar]

4 hours ago, smudge said:

This WAS a real nice wool blanket from HoSmudge's folks' house. He put it in his shed at camp, and the squirrels got to it. Do you think I could mend it? I'd hate to toss it. Suggestions?

If the wool was thicker, would suggest sitting cushions, but that looks abit sad and thin.

Headbands or light cap? You might need to line it.  Then I would use the rest as rags.  Do dogs like  wool blanket material?  I'm not  a pet person. I dunno...use it as a liner.

 

[Parr8hed]

13 hours ago, jsharr said:

mend it.  use squirrel pelts as patches

We can stop with any further replies, shut down the site now, hell....turn off the internet.  You won't get a better answer than this.

[Ralphie ★]

Even a cheap bastard like me would say toss it. But I guess you could use it as rags if you are so inclined. 

[jsharr ★]

1 hour ago, Parr8hed said:

We can stop with any further replies, shut down the site now, hell....turn off the internet.  You won't get a better answer than this.

Bikeguy’s pillow idea is better

[petitepedal ★]

You could make a triangle shawl/wrap for shoulders using the one end..with very little patching...patch it and bind the edges in a contrasting color or patterned wool.

[MoseySusan]

6 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

You could make a triangle shawl/wrap for shoulders using the one end..with very little patching...patch it and bind the edges in a contrasting color or patterned wool.

Best idea. I was thinking vest, but shawl is more versatile.