What to Do with Tartan Flashes?

[BEAS]

" Steve McCroskey: Johnny, what can you make out of this?
[Hands him the weather briefing] or in this case flashes
Johnny: This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl

one great scene from Airplane

[DWFII]

I believe (haven't tried it) that you could make a bonnet flash for your TOS.

[Bugbear]

I believe (haven't tried it) that you could make a bonnet flash for your TOS.

I'll have to look into that, thanks.

Today, I was givin a Zuni sterling silver bear paw done in their overlay style. It's not really big enough on it's own to make a cap badge, but placed on something else it might work out well.

Perhaps a piece of a flash. It is a one inch by half inch pin.

[DWFII]

I'll have to look into that, thanks.

Today, I was givin a Zuni sterling silver bear paw done in their overlay style. It's not really big enough on it's own to make a cap badge, but placed on something else it might work out well.

Perhaps a piece of a flash. It is a one inch by half inch pin.

Ted,

My WPG TOS has a bonnet flash made to the specs that I got from several sources, generous folks at XMTS among them...it is 2-1/2' x 2-3/4", single layer, and has a bit of fringe (1/8" ?) around all four sides. No complicated sewing involved, at all

The flashes that came with my kilt are made of tartan fabric roughly 4" wide, folded and seamed, and 6-1/2" long (not including the "points."

So theirs plenty of fabric to make a bonnet flash...in fact, if I'm figurin' it right, there's enough for 8 bonnet flashes in a pair of hose flashes.

I mounted my jump wings and a metal pin version of my old unit patch on the bonnet flash, and left one side of the flash (the side to the rear) a little open to accommodate a sprig...looks good to my eyes.

[Bugbear]

Ted,

My WPG TOS has a bonnet flash made to the specs that I got from several sources, generous folks at XMTS among them...it is 2-1/2' x 2-3/4", single layer, and has a bit of fringe (1/8" ?) around all four sides. No complicated sewing involved, at all

The flashes that came with my kilt are made of tartan fabric roughly 4" wide, folded and seamed, and 6-1/2" long (not including the "points."

So theirs plenty of fabric to make a bonnet flash...in fact, if I'm figurin' it right, there's enough for 8 bonnet flashes in a pair of hose flashes.

I mounted my jump wings and a metal pin version of my old unit patch on the bonnet flash, and left one side of the flash (the side to the rear) a little open to accommodate a sprig...looks good to my eyes.

I now have a swatch of my tartan to go with that pin I was talking about, so I will be looking into making one of these. However, I won't be wearing it with the tartan kilt I have now because that is the Half-Sett Lamont tartan.

I might have to start a new thread asking for written instructions on how to make the flash, just to make sure that I do it correctly.

[Rogerson785]

If you have a cat you could get some cat nip and sew several of the flashes together and let the cat enjoy the scent.

[Colonel MacNeal]

Give them to the ladies as a memento.

[Bugbear]

Thanks, DWFII. I will take down those measurements. It sounds like a good idea.

[DWFII]

PS...I've often wondered whether there might be enough fabric in a single flash to replace a kilt buckle strap. Or...if one was very lucky...match the underlying tartan if, and when, a feller needed to move a kilt buckle.

[Bugbear]

I think there might be... Although, that is a very good reason to ask that the kiltmaker send all the leftover scraps with the kilt. I had forgotten that some kiltmakers include a set of tartan flashes with the kilt.

Also, being that I do not wear a kilt often, I guess I could use a tartan flash and pin on a jacket lapel or even as a hat pin.