INSIGNIA AND BADGES on the New Uniforms

Most youth in our area sew (or have someone sew) their sash on to their campfire blankets as they move up. Now what? Remove them all from the latest size of shirt and do them all individually? If they're iron-on or some sort of stick-on, then what? Cut the sleeves off?

This sash on the campfire blanket is interesting, as I have never seen that done. The campfire blankets I have seen are always just camp type badges.

I don't think being able to sew the sash onto the campfire blanket is a valid reason for keeping it. There are many other ways to keep the badges as a keepsake (including cutting the sleeve off if you are so inclined, if you aren't passing on the shirt to another child).

While the sashes looked reasonably good (reasonably, because my son's always seems to fold in half lengthwise and never sits right) I have never really liked them. Most of the time they get taken off, because they are not suitable for play.

This sash on the campfire blanket is interesting, as I have never seen that done. The campfire blankets I have seen are always just camp type badges.

It's a smart-looking way of keeping them together. I'll be interested to see how well the new ones come off the sleeve. Nobody's going to want a hand-me-down shirt with the sleeves covered in badge goo.

Most of the time they get taken off, because they are not suitable for play.

That sounds like an excellent way to keep it in good shape. Our guys don't have that problem.

...Finally, a psst to the media types who posed the kids in promo shots--- it's impossible to get the Awards shown on the sash with the star-badge combo also shown -- even my Cubs pointed that out...shame ...

It could be worse. The Saskatoon Starphoenix posted a image of BSA uniforms claiming they were our old uniforms. And I have seen a few others that imply the activity shirt is the new uniform.

If you sow the badges on the arms with cloth thread instead of invisible thread you hardly feel the stitches.

I'm one of a few people in my area who have sown the sash onto the campfire blanket. I get cubs coming up to me all the time at area campfires to checkout my sash. It is a good opertunity to share with them the fact that I was once like them.
I've got camp badges covering the rest of my blanket.

I dunno about all this.I have my Kings'Scout, 1st and 2nd Class Badges, and my Tenderfoot on my campfire blanket. They are surrounded by my proficiency badges, Gold Cords and Bushman's thong in one specific area. I have my District and Provincial flashes and my Plumes also in another place and all my Camping badges scattered in any open places available. In Quebec, in the old days, we issued a badge for almost every activity. All my Tamaracouta Camp badges are alo there. Sewed most of it myself. Hard work, but still adding badges as I visit camps and also the Sposor and Group badges from GK and the old Maple Leaf Region where I first joined Canadian Scouting in Europe.