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Wow! What a month for new pods joining morsbags! We had 29 – count them, twenty-nine new pod registrations. 😀
They are –
JustJane
Halifax Raggedy Baggers
Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd
In Stitches
Mistletoe
Phoenix fabrics
Barbara’s Bags
MDBags
No Waste Witches
The Bag Lady
Wysebags
Capel Iwan Quilters
Faire Des Sacs
Stewkley Toddlers
Bega Valley Eco Bags
Landford / Nomansland Baggers
BA1Bags
Vermillion’s Bags
Waste Not Want Not
Milliebags
Holsworthy Baggers
Bumble
Rejig Bags
Tezabag
Baggage Reclaim – Coventry
Wastefreewinky
Beechwood WI
Toot’s Bags
Hardwick CarriersWelcome to you all, I hope you enjoy your bagging. As I write this there are two days to go til the next official handout (though you can give morsbags away whenever you want, organised or impromptu). Why not have a go at a little guerrilla bagging (giving bags away to passers-by in your local shopping street), you’ll probably enjoy it! If you’re not in the mood for that, all other methods of bag distribution are perfectly fine.
Active pods that added bags to the global tally in January were –
Niffy Bags
Bude Baggers
Stashbusters
Die Nähdamen
The Scrapstore Birmingham
Bladen Bags
Kentish Essex Girls
Te Awa Pod
JustJane
St Paul Baggers
Panache
Monty Morsbags
Seaside Sisters
Tam’s Pod
Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd
Tivoli West
Sally South Bags
Toni Fab Bags
Pickering Stitchers
The old bag
Phoenix fabrics
Whale bags
Whissybags
LoopyBags
Helland Baggers
Crafty Chatters of Lowdham
Macs Bags
HopStitching
Earthlings
Valbags
Wysebags
bobbin bags
Ivybags
say no to plastic
The Chickadeez (and friends)
Snobbyeddy Crafts
Less is Mors
MDBags
Meddon Morsbaggers
Faire Des Sacs
No Waste Witches
Landford / Nomansland Baggers
Morsbag Meisters
Cuckoobird
The Taylor’s Needle Community
Handcross Bag Lady
Atherstone Pod
Vermillion’s Bags
Worth Stitchers
Wundertuete
Ellabee’s
Milliebags
Butterfly Bags
Holsworthy Baggers
Bumble
Kreative Koepfe
SusiSews
Offcuts
Norfolk Knitters and Stitchers
Tezabag
ECOBAGSAnother record – there are 61 on that list. Sixty-one pods added bags to the tally in January 2018! That is just amazing. Well done every stitcher represented on that list – and double congratulations to the ten pods appearing on both lists.
And how many bags were made in January? 2744 – all ready and able to replace countless single-use plastic bags.
I look forward to recording even more bags made in February, March etc….
That’s a fabulous start to the year.
Just had a look at last years stats.
2592 bags were made last January.Thanks for looking that up Tori. So we even managed to make more bags than at the same time last year – fantastic! 🙂
Fantastic result isn’t it?! I think now with the plastic situation being taken seriously, more people might get involved and realise there isn’t a catch!
Just one thing, off topic….why is the forum so quiet now? At one time there were new messages hourly and we built up a good repartee with each other. The FB page just isn’t the same!
A wonderful start to 2018.
I have just added to our total for Feb. some of which were made by our local Girl Guides at their meeting on Friday. They all made beautiful bags and were so full of enthusiasm that they also took home a second bag to make at home. We went to the meeting at the suggestion of one of the girls so word is spreading.
Regarding your comment loopychriss, it is very quiet. I don’t do FB so this is my only contact with other pods.
I wish I knew why the big migration off this site LoopyChris! Without other people to talk to it’s hard to keep it lively – I’m very pleased you and Agwen replied. I did join Facebook a while ago but only look on there every few days.
Loopychriss, I think you’re right that more and more people are becoming aware of the problems with plastic, especially single-use plastic. Keep on bagging!
–Kathy, Mid-Missouri USA, Earthlings podIt’s really in the news at the moment, and not just bags!
I’m new to all this – I’m Faire Des Sacs down in South Warwickshire and have been going since the new year. I’ve been digging around to find out what the ‘challenge’ tally is for on my pod page and see that it was for an event in 2017. Is Morsbags.com linked to an event for 2018? I would willingly make some challenge bags. Trish x
Hi Trish, you’re right, the “challenge bags” was for an event last September, and that feature was created for that event. I don’t know if morsbags is going to do it again or not. The event was a great success, but from my point of view the venue suffered from dreadful disorganisation behind the scenes…..
Have you handed out any of your bags yet? Fun, isn’t it? 😀
Still quiet on here, but I’ll post anyway. Been stuck indoors for 4 days now due to the snow. Not that I’m complaining, I love being at home and have made the most of it by making bags. I had a beach clean due this Sunday (I live in Herne Bay), and have been making re-usable rubbish bags out of thermal curtain linings. The idea being that we can put all our rubbish in them, and then empty them into litter bins or the (dreaded) plastic sacks that the group organiser has us put our findings in. Unfortunately the beach clean has been cancelled because of the snow so I’ll have to wait until next month to give them their first outing.
Hoping to get a few more made and reach my target of 2,000 bags in a couple of weeks!
That’s a really interesting project. How big do you make those reusable rubbish bags?
–Kathy K, mid-Missouri, USA (Earthlings pod)
No snow here right now, knock woodLoopy, I think it is to do with forums generally not being as popular as they were 5 or 6 years ago. To be honest we do find Facebook is more immediate for local pods. Bude Baggers, for example built themselves up purely using Facebook. We get a lot of enquiries on Facebook as well. Tori works tirelessly on Facebook for team leicester and Beattie does the same on here. I am proud to have them both as my friends!
Thank you Rosie! X
Much the same comment was made just yesterday on another website I use. Someone asked “Where is everybody?” and the reply was the same as Odd Handles gave above, it’s a general flight from this sort of forum to “social media”, i.e. facebook, twitter, instagram and so on.
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