Bonnet Flash from Tartan Swatch?

**Bugbear** · 29th March 09, 07:47 PM

Any ideas?

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I have a swatch of my tartan fabric that I would like to use, in combination with a lapel pin, as a bonnet flash, and possibly still as a lapel pin sometimes. The swatch has a usable rectangular part that measures four inches by two and a half inches. The pin is one inch by a half inch. In the picture, a piece of the "L" shaped swatch is folded back behind the usable part.

I have been given measurements for a bonnet flash in another thread, but I would like to see what others think.
And thanks to DWFII for providing those measurements of his bonnet flash for reference.

**DWFII** · 29th March 09, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

I have been given measurements for a bonnet flash in another thread, but I would like to see what others think.
And thanks to DWFII for providing those measurements of his bonnet flash for reference.

Actually, I cut a piece of tartan 3" x 2-3/4". I did a zig-zag stitch along each side about a quarter inch in from the edge. Then I frayed each edge just by pulling threads parallel to the edge.

That's it! Hand sew the flash onto your bonnet and put a pin through it. You could even just pin it to the bonnet if the pin was big enough...could have interchangeable flashes if you have more than one tartan

**Bugbear** · 29th March 09, 09:53 PM

Thanks, DWFII.

Secretly, it would be a hat pin or worn in some other way because I don't have a bonnet yet.

I wouldn't be wearing it with a tartan kilt because I don't have a kilt in that tartan yet... So it might end up as a kilt pin on one of those kilts

But it would be nice to wear a little of my tartan etc. Perhaps I could turn a piece into a watch fob...

**Bugbear** · 30th March 09, 04:49 PM

All right, I cut the swatch into a strait rectangle, then I folded over about a half inch of the fabric at the topand held that back with the safetypin I use to pin it to something. The paw pin is centered between the sides and more toward the top; hopefully over the stripes on the swatch.

All the sides are fringed, though the top is folded back. It is still two and a half inches wide, and is three and a half inches long with the top folded back. I could trim that top, it is slightly uneven on one corner.

I could pink the bottom edge, or knotch it like a garter flash, or even fold it into several different tartan origami shapes. For now it is a rectangle, though.

**JolyStNicholas** · 30th March 09, 04:51 PM

I use a small swash from my Clan Claus Kilt on my Red Bonnet and I think it looks great, no matter which kilt I have on. I do switch out Bonnet pins too,
sometimes using my clan (Lion Rampant) for the Reindeer Believe Bonnit pin
from my Clan Claus.

**Bugbear** · 30th March 09, 10:30 PM

Well, for now the swatch and the bear paw pin are going in the drawer. I'm not sure this idea will work. I thought maybe this could take the place of a clan badge, which I do not have, but probably not. I will probably wear the pin on it's own, but not with a kilt; those have gone in the closet for a while.

I guess there are no other ideas on this.