Fresh Flower Kilt Pin?

[Mathew MacKillop]

I hope this is the right place to post this.

I am not overly gifted in creative aspects myself, five thumbs on each hand making crafts made by myself rather crude. I do, however, have a good idea from time to time! Or, at least what I think is a good idea.

I am wondering if the creatively gifted folks around here would have any ideas how to go about making a kilt pin that would contain a small tube of water and nutrients, so one could keep a small flower or other such appropriate growth alive for a day, and wear it as a kilt pin. I imagine that some sort of rubbery closure would be in order to prevent spillage, and a somewhat weighty covering for the container to make it actually serve it's purpose, but I think it's possible...

Any ideas?

[Father Bill]

So long as you don't sit down or walk too fast and spill it, or wear somebody else's clan badge.

[Mathew MacKillop]

I was considering some sort of semi-free swinging bearing for where it attaches to the kilt. Would add some weight, if the bottom of the tube is weighted, gravity should do the job of keeping it upright.

Excellent point about the clan badges, though! Hadn't even considered it!

[YOJiMBO20]

Florists use little water-tight vials of water to keep individual flowers fresh. I bet you could find a way to attach a pin to one.

[Mathew MacKillop]

I'm betting I could!

Something like so:

http://www.afloral.com/Floral-Suppli...bes-100-Pieces

A pin, though, does not seem adequate. Some sort of free-moving pin-like attachment, otherwise, as Father Bill stated, you would still risk dribbling on your kilt. Those tubes are not quite perfectly sealed. And then to come up with a non-hideous way to cover it up, and keep the weight of it towards the bottom.

[Riverkilt]

I do so love ideas out there on the edge. I'm thinking for just one day - or the time of one activity for a few hours - no need for the water and vial. Just pin it on like one would pin a flower on a lapel. Or what do women use to pin a fresh flower in their hair. Can't be too complicated without the water. Blossoms for most flowers you'd want to pin on should survive for the length of the function you're wearing the blossom for.

[Pleater]

Rather than have 'loose' water, use a well saturated sliver of sponge or tissue, large enough to hold the stem of the flower, so there is no danger of losing it, and slice the stem on the cross l/ so that the long cut is against the wet sponge.

When worn in a buttonhole the vial is usually slipped into a pouch made from a folded over ribbon sewn down each side and held to the back of the lapel with a tiny gold coloured safety pin at the top and an ordinary pin at the bottom.

On a kilt it could be fixed with safety pins from the inside of the kilt, and if it is a bit light one or more of those flat lead curtain weights could be tied on to a pin to hold it steady.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: