To think someone must have invented an alternative to sewing badges on by hand?

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I don’t have the time or patience, not to mention eyesight or skill, to sew badges any more. I’m drowning in them (brownies, guides, pony club, karate) - all making me feel like a bad mum for not wanting celebrating my DC achievements with a needle and thread.

Please tell me some entrepreneural mum has invented an alternative by now? Have you found it? Please share your secret?

Badge glue!

What about using hemming tape?

Sewing machines have been around quite a while too.

There is! Lots of our Brownies' parents use badge glue. It's not that reliable though

Can’t you get iron on transfer sheets you cut to size and use? I swear that’s a thing.

Badge glue
Makes them difficult to remove and move on to camp blankets later though, if that is what you might do.
I’ve sewn on all DS’s Beaver and Cub badges, but I’ve told him he needs to do his own Scout badges now. He has a couple waiting, but hasn’t taken me up in my offer to teach him yet.

What Squishy said. It's like a sheet of wonder web. Cut to size, iron onto badge then iron badge to clothes.

I did the badge glue then a few. Little stitches to hold in place...
Although when ds outgrew his scout shirt. We had to transfer the badges over 30 of the little delights... I got mil to do it.. We'll she said she had no plans that eve and was w bored as fil was away with the car so was stuck in.. It really was kind of me lol

Get the kids to sew their own badges on

Or use badge glue

Or take them to a local sewing / alterations place .... we used to charge £3 per badge in my shop though, so it's not cheap if you have loads of them .... but the advantage is that they are sewn on by machine so they don't come off unless you deliberately unpick them

I got a sewing machine for Christmas, a really cheap one (as sewing machines go). I’m having lots of fun making draft excluders and things but, mostly I just wanted it to sew the bloody badges. I’m getting quite good at it now.

Re Badge Glue - are we talking Badge fix loctite 595?

I've tried in the sewing machine but the badges were so thick, I kept breaking the needle.

The needle needs to go in where the edging stitches 'insert'. It's possible to sew them perfectly securely by doing just 6-8 separate little catch stitches, which is a lot quicker than faffing around with wonderweb and irons - and it's a few snips to take them off at a later date.

You don't need to sew all around every millimetre of the things.

In any case, sewing badges on is the job of the person who earned the badge - it makes their Craft Skills (or whatever has replaced the old Seamstress Badge in Brownies) Badge a lot easier to earn because they already know how to sew.

Iron on tape, like you use for curtain drops and trouser hems. Here's a wide one, probably OK for badges. 8m long is a lot of badges for £3.50

www.amazon.co.uk/Korbond-EXTRA-WIDE-HEMMING-60mm/dp/B007TKD69G?pf_rd_p=d8ceedee-c193-5352-afb5-918f9ebc0ed0&pf_rd_r=RA3CAYNKPPPQQ7FQKFA0&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-10&pf_rd_t=BROWSE&ref_=s9_apbd_otopr_hd_bw_b3LLcul&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&pf_rd_i=3063856031

Superglue....

Teach them to sew on their own badges? I did that with my two age 8. It was painful but they got there in the end and it was so worth it. I taught dh at the same time.

Get jeans needles for your sewing machine and sew them on with the sewing machine. Until you get too far down the sleeve for it to get on the machine - thanks beavers!

Someone who's old enough for Guides is surely old enough to sew her own badges. Sewing is a useful, even essential, life skill which all children should acquire.

Agree with the others - show the children how to sew their own badges on. Once you can do badges, you can do name tapes for school uniform without too much difficulty.

Gah now I feel like slack mum for not being arsed to teach the DC AND DH how to sew on badges. I really just want a quick fix. I love the idea of outsourcing the whole thing.

Wonder web!

glue gun

What about this? 😃
I’ve seen this in use and it’s quick and easy... just bought one myself a moment ago for my kids Scout badges!

www.amazon.co.uk/MicroStitch-Avery-Synthetic-Material-18x3x22/dp/B001CE8JPQ?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

The real quick fix in teaching them is that you don't have to deal with loose buttons, badges or dropped hems ever again afterwards.

A product called fusible web is an iron-on product that adheres one piece of fabric to another. This should work for patches:

www.fatquartershop.com › 5-ct-fabric-fuse-peel-n-stick-sheet-4-14-in...

Five Fabric Fuse Peel 'n Stick Sheets | Therm-O-Web #3344 ...

I save them up and take them to a tailor.