First I taped over the whole arrow point and sewed right over the tape.
I tried this out when I had to sew a couple arrow points on Sammy's shirt. She said she uses tape instead of pins when she's trying to put on smaller patches. I noticed some tape sticking to a patch on one of the roundtable staff's shirt a couple months ago and asked her about it. This could work for the knot patches as well. Bigger patches are way easier, plus then you don't have to keep trying to get them all lined up. This saves you from sewing 3 separate small patches. TIP 1: When sewing unit number patches, sew them together first, and THEN sew them to the shirt. I had to add some patches on to my sons' shirts, and got to try out some patch tips I'd been given. There is always the patch glue, but that looks terrible if you ever have to take patches off. I would be strongly in favor of changing uniform policy to accomodate this.Any scouters out there know that sewing on patches isn't always thrilling, but hey, we want to look snazzy, right? So it must be done. I can't imagine what it could possibly harm.
Can we not also say it is OK for young men to wear the Eagle Badge (and only the Eagle badge) until they are 21. But at 18 years old, there is still a lot of boy left in those young men. Now, think back to those newly minted Eagles who at 18 never get to wear the patch. But it is the greatest achievement in my life and it makes me feel good to acknowledge it. No,I don't do it to say to others "Hey, look at me!". And every appropriate chance I get, I wear my Eagle Medal. But I proudly wear the knot 32 years later. In any case, I never really got to wear the award on my pocket. Sure, they earned the badges, but do they really have the Eagle Mindset? Doubtful at that age.
My personal opinion is that I look at 13 year old Eagles and wonder how much they have really gotten from the program. There was much hard work involved in getting there and a lot of Scouting fun. My Eagle COH took place after I was 18 years old.
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