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?

@Familyof aliens I'm hopeless at gardening we should team up come the apocalypse, another thing everyone used to be able to do when it was functional rather than a hobby.

It’s a deal, @NotMeNoNo. I’m sure sewing will be an excellent skill for me to have when the zombies are coming for me.

Sorry that was the OP's comment about gardening.

Sorry to crash thread but would a glue gun work? A hot glue gun that is? I might try it anyway..

For all those saying it really hurts their fingers, you're doing it wrong!

You don't sew through the badge, you just catch some of the stitches that frame around the edge of the badge and use them to sew it on. Kind of like doing invisible hemming where you just catch a couple of threads, rather than doing a full in and out running stitch. I'm sure there are proper technical sewing terms for these techniques but I don't know them!

Aliens I was thinking of the tattered and hungry aftermath

@NotMeNoNo DD went through 3 Brownie hoodies, none of them was in any state of being sold or handed down. Same with her Scout uniform. I am amazed of people whose children are not destroying the uniform.

I actually think the badges on the sash look neater, no danger of paint or glue or mud at trips on the hoody, they wear them to parades or for the carol service our pack did each year.

Try putting a message on your local Facebook page offering to pay anyone who'll do it for you. I bet someone will offer!

We are sewing with the Brownies at our next meeting.

(Mind you, I glue DS’s cub badges onto his jumper because I am terrible at sewing and also have no time what with work and Brownies admin!)

Sewing machine, if you have one. And a study needle, I use one for denim.
If you line it up right, you can sew around just inside the edging line without much difficulty as it’s already perforated from the edging. Picture attached of a couple of badges, one flipped over so you can see where the green meets the white and the little holes, that’s where you want to be sewing along.

I outsource to my MIL! Sorry not helpful.