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Agwen 8 years, 11 months ago.
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I had a letter from one of my ex customers. Caroline and her husband used to come and stay with us when we had holiday chalets. In the eight years since we sold the business Caroline has stayed in touch and comes to see me when they’re holidaying in the area. We chat and sew and talk gardens. Caroline and Steve don’t “do” the internet – can’t get on with it, so she wrote a letter with what she’d like to say.
MORSBAGS
I first started to learn about Morsbags from a friend in St Agnes, Cornwall. Both she and her husband work very hard making them and handing them out. I’d not heard of morsbags til then. B has since shown me how to make them and although I can see they are straight forward to make I get problems, but then, that’s me. I feel the more I do the better I may get with the help of my husband Steve.I’ve been packing my shopping bags and people in the queue have asked “Where do you buy them from?”. Thanks to B I have various sizes (don’t just use them for shopping). They are so easy to pop in a handbag as well.
While cleaning for a lady near where I live in Petersfield I saw she had a bag on the table top (very pretty colours) then I saw “Morsbags” on it and asked her if she got it from around Petersfield. She said “No, we went to St Agnes for a few days break and they were giving them out.” I’m not sure where but her mother saw it and I told her to go online and get a printout of the pattern. We are both going to order more morsbag labels but we want them mainly for ourselves and family and friends.
It’s great collecting mostly old curtain material and putting different patterns together to make the bag, and how they are stitched, they are so strong.
Good old morsbags! I’d advise anyone, even if like me, no needlewoman, to have a go.
Caroline
It’s a bit weird to think of all those bags out there finding, via unknown paths, their hidden niches to be useful in, only to suddenly be glimpsed again years later.
I like the bit about the other lady having a bag from us too! 😀
What a great letter. Using a Morsbag is like belonging to a secret club, when you see someone else using one, you can’t help but smile or comment on it.
How lovely that they are now going to make them and spread the Morsbag message even further.I was really touched when Caroline asked me to post the letter on here for her. I hope she and her pod carry on the good work too! 😀
It’s a nice feeling for us when we have motivated someone else to make bags isn’t it?
I had a nice encounter not so long ago.
I met a lady at the big textiles show when we were both taking part in a crochet workshop. We recognised each other but it took us a few minutes to work out where from. It turned out that I had taught her how to make a Morsbag at an event about 18 months previously. I remembered her really well. She had really shown an interest in morsbags but took quite a bit of gentle encouragement to convince her to sit behind the sewing machine and have a go. She had bad memories of terrible sewing teachers at school and was genuinely nervous of the machine. Anyway, she made a bag and really enjoyed it. It sparked a real interest in sewing for her. Although she hadn’t made anymore morsbags, she had been to other sewing workshops and got interested in various other crafts. It’s was a nice feeling to think that I had given her a gentle push in the right direction that had gone on to be a new hobby for her.
(She did make another bag at the big textile show!)What a great story Butterfly! 😀 It’s lovely when making a lovely, simple, useful morsbag rehabilitates someone who’s been put off sewing and other crafts by a bad experience. There must have been some dreadful sewing teachers around.
Thats a lovely letter Beattie. It amazing how morsbags spread and swim and move around and pop up in different places to find us again. Someone said something to me that I think is very true; when we first started out not many people had heard of morsbags, now not many people haven’t……
Yes I agree the letter from Caroline is lovely.
Macs Bags gave a talk to a WI last week and two of the ladies said they already had some and used them regularly. It is such a thrill to hear that and of course to see them in the wild.
Best whishes to Caroline and her friend, hope keep making morsbags.
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