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I had found some of the old labels and attached them to some bags I made last week. Having got used to the new, square format and made lots of bags with them on now, it was a shock to go back to the old ones for a while. Maybe it’s lack of practice, but I found my stitching was a bit wobbly without the dotted line to help me. I don’t usually stitch right on it, but use it as a guide and sew a bit outside it.
I hope you and your pod will get used to the new labels too, Pickering Stitchers. It would be a shame to stop morsbagging because of such a small thing.
You can now buy ‘retro style’ morsbags labels here http://morsbags.com/product/morsbag-labels-retro-style/
They are a limited edition run until we finalise a final new label shape and design (the price is a little more due to the label size and it being a smaller bulk order than usual)
enjoy!It might be too late to mention it but there is one little thing I don’t like about the new labels, the little blue line between them. Do we really need that? It’s only a little thing but I am cutting above and below the dividing line and it looks a bit untidy if you can see bits of the line.
that line is part of the printing process, I can see if it can be removed in subsequent orders. Even the older labels had this line.
It’s very kind of you to go to the trouble of ordering and stocking two sorts of labels Joe and Pol! I prefer the new ones now I’m used to them, but having the choice is good for those who don’t.
Just an update – the square ‘new’ labels are now temporarily discontinued and we will only sell the retro morsbag labels for a while.
We are looking into sponsorship for new labels to try subsidise or fully remove cost from labels.
We are holding off from a final design due to a potential feature we want to introduce to labels which is ‘sequential numbering’ – each label will have a unique number that links back to the pod who bought them. This would create an interactive element of each bag allowing the user to find out who made the bag and why – thus driving more traffic to morsbags as well as putting local people in touch with their local pods. At the moment it is just an idea but if we are able to order enough labels in bulk with sequential numbers printed on them it should add little to no extra cost.Good idea! I number my labels when I put them on my bags. I started this for my own reference really as I could never remember to change the number made on my pod site. To my surprise I have found that people love the idea of an individually numbered bag! I have to admit that my handwritten numbers look a bit raggety though, whereas these new labels sound potentially very smart.
This sounds interesting.
If we spotted a bag in the wild, it would be interesting to see which pod had made it
and how far the bag had travelled.I DO like the idea of numbered labels. I was thinking about our old ‘vintage’ sewing machines and how the Singers have more information about them, and in some ways are more interesting because we can look up when and where they were made. Singer’s website gives that information on all their machines as the serial numbers were issued in batches. Cool.
And it will make morsbags like numbered prints – even more collectable than they are now! 😀
Sequential numbering does sound interesting. I haven’t really got any comment with regards to the square label, as I never ended up needing to buy any. I always buy labels in such bulk quantities that I haven’t run out of the old ones yet!
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