To want DS to quit Beavers so I don't have to do anymore sewing?

[ATrampsVest]

Obviously IABU but I just spent the best part of an hour sewing on three badges and two of them are wonky. Plus I managed to stab myself with a needle twice. I hate sewing. Always have. Why can't they give out stickers instead? Much better for my poor fingers.

I sew them on and can manage it quickly because I don’t do it neatly and I fold the jumper over against the badge to make it easier.
I know what I mean 😂

One hour a term is a lot less than the 2 hours plus your volunteer Beaver Leader spends planning and running the sessions, plus taking time out to order said badges. Maybe be grateful your child has got them?

Apparently sticking a plastic bottle up the sleeve helps (I've yet to try)

One hour a term is a lot less than the 2 hours plus your volunteer Beaver Leader spends planning and running the sessions, plus taking time out to order said badges. Maybe be grateful your child has got them?

Ah, there's always one who takes a clearly light-hearted thread and has a moan.

For what it's worth, I actually help out most weeks unless my husband is away and I've got no one to look after the youngest. But you carry on.

Copydex is the answer. My son wouldn't have made it up to explorers without copydex...

I am good at sewing and I glued them all on. Ain’t got time for that! While we are at it I also paid for a stamp so I stamp my ds’s names into his uniform and shoes.

@ATrampsVest glad to hear you help out

I think your scout section is missing a trick.
They could charge per badge for the scouts to sew onto uniform

I laughed when I read your title OP - my ds didn't do beavers but he did cubs and scouts. I am rubbish at sewing. DS is rubbish at sewing.

Fortunately for us both, dh is not rubbish at sewing and did them all.

I would have either paid someone or used glue otherwise.

(possibly used glue in more than one sense)

My mum refused to sew any more badges on (I was a very enthusiastic guide, got a double row of badges down each sleeve, which then had to be transferred on to the sash when the uniform changed)

I solved the problem by fixing them on using safety pins. I would jangle when I walked!

Imagine my distress when ds grew out of his beavers jumper 9 months before he was old enough to move on to cubs. I had to unpick all of the badges and resew on a new bigger jumper. I nearly cried.

I had to sew most of my own brownie badges on. My DC don’t do these activities, but I still have karate club badges to sew on suits, and bits for dancing costumes too.

Take them to a mending shop. It’ll be the best £2.50 you’ll spend all week.

I hear you, OP. I have one child in Scouts, and one in Brownies. I fecking hate sewing, but it has to be done. I considered fabric glue, but I need to be able to get the badges off when they move up a level in the staged activities, so I just sewed them in the end.

Seriously, wonderweb and light tacking around the edges. Just catching the top layer of fabric, no need to go all the way through.

I have been a rainbow, brownie scout and leader. EVERYONE uses wonderweb or glue 😂

our group does a badge service for 50p a badge which ive been very willing to pay as the jumper and shirts are very thick and i just havent the patience either

ive 2 kids in there oldest has gone all the way from beavers to explorers and the other in cubs and my partner has been/is a scout leader for 8 years now

ive not sewn 1 badge i pay for the service which is the beaver leaders wife

all money goes to the group pot

Sewed DGD's this week...........till my fingers bled!!!

Brownie - glued onto her sash

Scouts - first full set - we paid someone. The odd one I can do. She now needs a new shirt and we will pay someone to remove and re-sew the things.

On top of that I also had her pony club badges, they are a lot worse than the other ones and had to go on a thick jumper.

Send it my way. I love sewing.

My daughter 11 does her own scout badges. Otherwise I charge her 50p each.

Sewing badges on is my go-to activity when I feel that I must do something useful and productive, but would really rather sit on my backside watching Netflix. As in "sorry dear I would help you load the dishwasher, but sadly I have all these badges that demand my immediate attention".

It has never occurred to me that there might be people who hate sewing enough to offer me money to do this. How many badges do you reckon it would take to justify quitting my job for a lifetime earning money from my sofa?

Sympathy. I use the machine to save my fingers but that does lead to some slightly strange sewing (small circles on the machine is a little out of my comfort zone). I asked DH (former Scout Leader) when I could expect DS (6) to do his own...DH howled with laughter and said ‘maybe in Scouts!’. Argh!

Yanbu- is t the pint that they learn to do these things themselves??

DS1's scout group used to get them to do their own. Badge day happened then the following meeting was sewing.

My dh does it. He likes hand sewing and is brilliant at it, I loathe it.