Making own courtesy Flags?

[CharlesM]

Hello All

I anticipate requiring around 5 or so courtesy flags over the next 2 months, and was wondering what you peeps do.

As flags will probably be afound £15 each, do you make them? My Sweet has got herself one of these mini sew machines (£15 @ woolworths).

Can one buy 1/2 m of various colours?
What type of material?
Do you sew patches onto a single piece (base) or sew patches together for the whole (Then back may be backwards)?

etc?

Thanks
Charles
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[TigaWave]

We used plain whit cotton, quite thin then painted them using artist acrylics, they're a bit stiff when they're new but a bit of flapping in the breeze and they look better. Some of the flags have pictures of a parrot on which would be very tricky to do with patches, and little stars.
Just stitch around the edge and start painting...
Neil

 

[snowleopard]

jimmy green sell kits with small quantities of materials to make your own flags.

you can also buy flags for the nearby islands throughout the caribbean.

 

[jerryat]

Hi Charles,

Before we shoved off on our travels we bought a flag-making kit, fully intending to make what we needed en-route, a simple job as we carry a sewing machine. It contains all sorts of coloured material, thread etc etc to allow most courtesy flags to be made. However, we've never used it to make new, only to repair those we bought when U/V turned the material to powder!! It's a lot more messing about than we realised and we decided to buy (I think we got the lot from Jimmy Green Marine at a boat show) new.

Lazy but convenient! Can't remember where we got the kit though it was at one of the boat shows too.

Cheers Jerry

 

[RPC]

We used to sew the easier ones and paint the complicated bits.

If you need lists of flag designs you can get them here http://www.onpassage.com/Flags_Burgees/Flags_Burgees.htm

Hope that helps
Rod

 

[zephyrsailor]

i was planning to knit mine!

 

[Keith]

we used an old cotton bedsheet cut to appropiate size and permanent marker pens ,remember to draw in pencil first so the scale of the "parrot" etc is right, yes it is time consuming but the one thing you have when cruising is time?......keith