John Pannell has begun an interesting series on patches shaped like the home state of the issuing lodge. John titles the series These 50 States. First up is North Carolina.
I can’t think of any NY shaped patches. I do have a couple of neckerchiefs with the outline of New York State, one likely a private issue from Otahnagon and the other some sort of OA event issue, I’m still looking for more information on that one.
A patch shaped like of New York State would be tough; Long and Staten Islands would keep drifting away. 
HEy John, I believe Lodge #60 issued a Texas shaped patch.
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November 10th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Long Island drifting away from the rest of NY? Probably wouldn’t be a bad thing.
… coming from a recovering Long islander.
Several other states would pose problems, too. The one VA shaped patch I found left off VA’s part of the Del-Mar-Va peninsula. Alaska would have a long and fragile extensions… as would WV. Then there’s all the “square states”.
Actually I could imagine a neat series of patches from Hawaii, if only the two lodges there would do it. Make a patch in the shape of each of the main islands. On the patches depict some aspect of Hawaii — native life, culture, plants, maybe tourism…
Hmmm… Maybe I should say “Aloha” to my Hawaiian Scouting friend and tell him about this…