February 17, short but sweet!

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  • #6423
    beattie
    beattie
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    February is the shortest month as we all know, but this year is turning out to be an “anti-leap year”. Instead of getting stats for 28 days, you’re getting them for 26.5 as I won’t have internet access after this evening.

    I’ll do a catch-up post eventually if there are any changes to report from the last day and a half but these are the stats so far.

    3026 bags have been made by 48 pods. I don’t remember so many pods adding bags in one month before – amazing! No doubt Offcuts will correct me if there are duplicates.

    Bag-making pods

    Earthlings
    Guy’s Marsh Prison
    Whissybags
    Wundertuete
    Bude Baggers
    Pickering Stitchers
    Sue’s Mountsorrel
    Material Girls
    Darting Frog
    Macs Bags
    Niffy Bags
    The old bag
    Atherstone Pod
    Less is Mors
    Die Nähdamen
    Brislington WI
    Made in Quarry Bank
    Trusty Bags
    Offcuts
    Megsmors
    Women of Wimborne (WOW)
    Whetstone Whales
    Daily Thread
    Valbags
    Bargebaggers
    JEMors
    Crafty Chatters of Lowdham
    Greenbags
    Rags to Bags
    Ballypod, Ireland
    The old bag
    Handcross Bag Lady
    Les’spod
    LoopyBags
    The Taylor’s Needle Community
    Bag Masters
    Anstey, Leicestershire
    Eversewcrafty
    Ivybags
    Harborough Hit Bags
    prime2357
    Megsmors
    Monty Morsbags
    Stoffdronning
    Chayce
    Friends of St.Margaret’s
    The Asfordby One
    The Scrapstore Birmingham

    We welcome 12 New pods

    Sue’s Mountsorrel
    Made in Quarry Bank
    Megsmors
    Women of Wimborne (WOW)
    Anstey, Leicestershire
    Tam’s Pod
    Bagsofbags
    The Sewing Corner
    Upcyclebags
    Stoffdronning
    Friends of St.Margaret’s
    The Asfordby One

    Kudos to the pods that appear in both lists – you get a gold star for not letting the grass grow under your feet 🙂

    Comments

    LoopyBags wrote
    “Solo morsbagger just getting back into the swing of making again after a few months inactivity (Feb 2017). Aiming to get to 2000 made by end of 2017.”
    Welcome back Chris!

    “At the The Taylor’s Needle, we believe in supporting our community with the skills and resources that we have available. We use our leftover scraps of fabric (and considerable amount of skill ; ) to help improve our environment and the lives of others in our community. We welcome anyone wanting to join our little team here in the Treasure Valley!”
    For those not in the know, the wonderful-sounding Treasure Valley is at Nampa, near Boise, Idaho, USA

    Noosa Dillybags writes “I joined Morsbags 7 years ago when I had broken my leg and sewing was about all I could do. Since then I’ve joined a group called Boomerang Bags, Noosa and we share the same goals as Morsbags. We currently sew from Wallace House, Noosa Arts & Crafts in Noosaville on Monday & Wednesday mornings from 9.30 to 12.30. We have made hundreds of bags which have been distributed throughout the Noosa shire to organisations such as Noosa Council, IGA supermarket and many smaller retail shops selling fruit and veg, books, health foods and more. We welcome all new volunteers whether you can sew or not. There are many jobs for non sewers and we are happy to teach you to sew if you want to learn.”
    Noosa is in Queensland, Australia

    “Wundertüte is a solo pod and bags the local library and the Vechelde book swap. Recently I discovered the Morsbag pattern for wheelchairs and gave them a go. I found a willing “test pilot” who tried out my prototype bag on her Zimmer frame. As a result, eight other ladies in the nursery home requested bags for themselves. I was thrilled and, of course, obliged.”

    Thanks for all your efforts, morsbaggers everywhere! The turtles and whales thank you too! 😀

    #6434
    offcuts
    offcuts
    Participant

    Thank you Beattie for compiling these stats. x As far as I can tell 8 of the pods are in Leicestershire! 😀 😉

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    #6494
    beattie
    beattie
    Keymaster

    We’re back from our hols, I’ve de-spammed the forum (sorry about that…) and had a look at the stats for the last day and a half of February.

    I hope you’ll be interested to learn that 9 pods added another 214 bags, bringing the total for February up to 3240, and one more pod should be added to the Roll of Merit for that month – congratulations HopStitching!

    #6500
    offcuts
    offcuts
    Participant

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    #6516
    beattie
    beattie
    Keymaster

    Very pretty Offcuts! 😆

    #6561
    offcuts
    offcuts
    Participant

    ;-/

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