I've got about 20 guide and brownie badges to sew on camp blankets (x2) :-(, can I use glue?

[sandyballs]

Title says it all really, AIBU? I've sewn on two and I'm losing the will to live. What sort of glue should I use, superglue? fabric glue? Help!

Wonderweb? Does that even still exist??

I was going to say wonderweb too, my mum used to use that on everything because the one time she sewed something on it was hideous

You'll never get your badge-sewing badge using glue. :o

I haven't been brave enough to try using glue, but I feel your pain!

I am dreading ds growing out if his current cubs jumper and having to re sew everything onto a new one.

Sorry, not very helpful!

fabric glue is fab. You can get it in homebase.

Glue is no good, it doesn't last and the blankets just end up getting manky.

Guides should be doing it themselves though, we've had meetings where we've told them to bring in their blankets and we have taught them how to sew them on. They don't tend to look the neatest but last much longer (and saves parents a job).

I do know of a Leader that had so many that she got some 'invisible' thread and did it with her sewing machine, just went from badge to badge without stopping.

Using a sewing machine is the quickest and neatest way to do cloth badges, name tapes etc and they stay put forever.
Not much help if you haven't got a sewing machine!!! but you could always ask someone who has and offer a favour in return.

What jen said.

I have a box with about 50 badges in which I really should sew on to my camp blanket. Some are years old now! Every so often I sew a couple on.

Camp blankets surely don't need to be kept so up to date?

We had a meeting the other week about back to basics, what being a Guide is all about. Everyone had to iron their necker and learn how to tie a friendship knot as one of the activities. It was funny to see so many of them that had never used an iron and really enjoyed doing it. I told them to go home and say how much they enjoyed it and that they would probably get the opportunity to do it more often :o

I too have a box of badges, had my warrant for 8 years and still have only sewn 5 badges on my blanket

What about asking your Brownie and/or Guide to do the sewing? I think that's what the Guide leader and Brown Owl might expect.

I also think the Guide/s at least should sew them on. I sewed mine on and I was the most cack-handed child in the world. I remember sewing about four badges on a uniform shirt sleeve while watching TV, then finding I had also sewn them through the sleeve onto my skirt and having to unpick the lot.

Winder web is great, you can get it here... www.amazon.co.uk/Caraselle-Vilene-Extra-Strong-Wundaweb/dp/B000LFE898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329142621&sr=8-1

wunderweb

Thanks I'll try wunderweb. I agree they should be sewing it on themselves and they ahve done a couple but I'm fed up wtih nagging.

We use wonder web on ds's Beaver uniform, works no problem.

I cant sew I glue them on and TBH dd has stopped putting them on things so we have a collection of badges , her guides seem to give out badges for turning up these days