to think LIFE'S TOO SHORT for sewing on Brownie badges

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I would probably not do it at all but found a note-to-self written by DD2 saying...

'I am sad becose mummy did not come to my promise party and [DD2] won't let me sleep in her bed and my tadploes have turnd intoo froggs.'

I can't pile more misery onto DD2s wee shoulders so have spent last 45 mins cursing while trying to sew fecking badges on to horrible yellow uniform. Grrr

All six badges now on - just don't look too closely (or put gilet on radiator). Plus, I have just been into DD2's room to find that she has snuck in to DD1's bed. So she will be v happy tomorrow as long as we can find some more tadploes.

hmmm... sewing badge...

I did sew DD's Brownie badges onto her sash, but it wasn't a problem. While her uniform was passed on to a girl it fitted, DD kept the sash as a memento when she moved up to Guides.

I've just done dd's. During the procrastination phase, I hated badges. Now I've done them, I have some weird domestic goddessy glow about me. Until the next one...

As a brown owl, can I plead with you to sew badges on (or wonder web or glue them, or attach them somehow to your daughters uniform). They are expensive to buy, they are part of what your subs pay for. Don't just lose them/chuck them away. They hopefully mean something to your daughter and with any luck, she will keep them for years and look back fondly at her time spent in the brownies.

Yes they should go on the uniform but it is a bloody nightmare trying to figure out what goes where. Many parents also work, have multiple children and have other commitments. Time is short!

Badge glue!

Fabric glue here (and I'm a leader!) :)

Absolutely agree with Euphemia...there aren't many scout/guide leaders who don't also have family and work commitments... Tonight my nearly 14 yr ds was invested as an Explorer. Tomorrow in my lunch break I willsew on the six badges - in time for the dash straight to beavers at 5.15 so that my son who also helps as a young leader alongside me can proudly wear his new uniform.
Don't underestimate the sense of pride your son/daughter gets from their badges whatever their ages .

I remember having to do this for my sons - and the horror of finding out two were in the wrong place and needed redoing - but it paled into insignificance next to all the name tapes for ds1's secondary school. There were far too many of those that couldn't be ironed on or glued on, and had to be sewn on - and like the guide sash, his lab coat was made of kevlar - and needed the sleeves taking up too.

But now all mine are older, no longer in Scouts, and no longer need name tapes, I am wondering if I should offer badge sewing-on as a service locally - at £8 for 6 badges, I could make myself some money and spend it on knitting yarn.

I quite like sewing on the dcs badges

I've just made a right pig's ear of the house badge on DD's blazer. I stuck the school one on with glue and then tacked it but the house one was too small.

I've told her to tell anyone who judges her for it that her mother had much more interesting and exciting things to do when she was growing up than learning to sew neatly.

That said, I've quite enjoyed sewing name-tapes in and keep singing Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colours" to myself and thinking of the line, "the love my mother sewed with every stitch" Obviously, this is conditional love which only applies to easy tasks

Get your daughter to do her Brownie Skills badge and she can sew on her own badge!

Can't you just have the kids sew on their badges? Or is it for really wee littles that can't be left with needles? (Never did brownies myself so don't know!).

For what it's worth I was sewing leather tack and turnout rugs at 7/8 (think throwing your body weight into a massive pillar sized needle ) and therefore think all your kids are completely spoiled and should be sat up of a night sewing in their badges, before going up the chimney

Honestly though, if they're an age where they can hold a needle then surely they're proud enough of their badges to want to sew them on themselves? I was always a bit jealous of the brownies and swimmers getting patches when I was little. Being able to attach one bit of cloth to another is a useful skill to have. Throw em a needle and some thread and let them get on with it while you have a glass of wine!

I used to think that but when I behold my only best mate of a teddy who is exactly my age and falling to pieces because my mother let me "repair" him myself instead of forking out a few pence for it to be done properly (was the seventies) it makes me think twice...

Kevlar sashes! They are impossible. DD2 put her badges on her gilet

Used to ask beg mum to saw ds beavers badges on, then tried myself and realised I should have paid attention in home ecs, whilst in my limited sawing tin I realised I had wonder web left over from shortening my trousers gave it a go didn't hold much hope - worked a treat ds commented on how much I'd improved as they were streight!!

I thought the brownie sash idea was great, as DD never outgrew it (unlike the 3 lots of uniform). But can anyone tell me where guide badges are supposed to be sewn on.

Audrina But surely, if he hasn't been repaired since the 70's, and the last repair job you did on him was when you were a kid, he would be falling apart by 2013 wouldn't he? Even he had never needed a repair job at all, if he was a well loved bear, he'd be quite worn out by now.

Patch him up next time you've got 30 mins in front of the tv, you big meanie

I can't, he is fraying and may not survive the operation. He is in a babygro and hat though

At the risk of sounding completely psychotic, could the babygro and hat be stitched into his skin?

To prevent further fraying at delicate areas, naturally!

Yes I think that was a line from Silence of the Lambs: It stitches the babygro to it's skin...

Good idea.

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I collect an entire envelope full of hard earned badges that have fallen off craply glued uniforms over the course of a year. It makes their uniforms look like awful with white sticky marks, and trying to work out whose badges they are is a nightmare. After every meeting kids come up and give me grubby sticky badges they have found on the floor.

And yes, I have a full time job, three children (one with a disability) and three volunteer roles, only one of which is running weekly meetings and weekend camps for your kids. My two girls are in guiding and my boy in scouting. I'm with you, Euphemia. Busy is contextual and guiders aren't serene sahms who potter about in the long afternoons idly looking for crafting ideas. We're jamming it into our lunch breaks.

I also get my mil to sew on the badges. I'm too busy planning camps for over a hundred girls to look after my own kids' uniforms. I wouldn't be seen dead with them glued on though. If mil couldn't do it (and she lives over three thousand miles away) then I'd forego sleep to get it done. Your daughters have worked hard for this stuff.

And afterwards it celebrates by putting the lotion in the basket.