Marvellous March (again!)

[beattieKeymaster]

What is it about March? We always seem to do well, morsbags-wise in that month and the latest one is no exception. I knew we were shaping up to record a lot of bags made as more than one productive pod added a lot of bags, having not added any for a little while (lost passwords seem to be to blame frequently). So here we are with a bumper month!

4985 bags were made world-wide. I really thought last night that we’d reach 5000 but we ended up being fifteen short – so close! But it’s still an amazing number of new bags in the world. 😀

Bag-making pods – of which there were 80!

Transition C POD
Odd Handles
Butterfly Bags
Bude Baggers
Die Nähdamen
LoopyBags
Panache
baggers
Cuckoobird
OlympicECObags
Sewkulele
Innsbruck
The Taylor’s Needle Community
Niffy Bags
So Mrs Bag
Offcuts
fingerhut-vellern
Macs Bags
Sally South Bags
Less is Mors
Monty Morsbags
St Nick’s
Paula’s Morsbags for everyone
Justliz
The old bag
Holsworthy Baggers
Seaside Sisters
Sew-in-pressed
Stashbusters
The Chickadeez (and friends)
MDBags
SW Sun Seekers
South East Living Skys
Barrow Baggins
Wundertuete
in Stitches
Faire Des Sacs
Whissybags
Daisy Bags
upcycling is fun
Greenbags
Halifax Raggedy Baggers
Meddon Morsbaggers
Morsbag Meisters
Kinderspielstraße Agenda 2030
Nellycmr
Kentish Essex Girls
Landford / Nomansland Baggers
Earthlings
HopStitching
Toni Fab Bags
LoopyBags
Rejig Bags
Whetstone Whales
Two Doors Studio
patchikins
Morsbags et non Morsbach
Harborough Hit Bags
cats in the bags
HolySpiritChurch NewLifeBags
Barblin’ Along
Valbags
Guy’s Marsh Prison
Dar el Ma
Bargebaggers
Bag for Love
Grayshott Bag
Ditsy bags
Ballypod, Ireland
Ivybags
Barrow Bagging
Pickering Stichers
Milliebags
Guggles
prime2357
Duisbags – die Pottnaeher
Bumble
Suzies @ Plas Dur
Hamblins Habybaggers
ECOBAGS

So when you’re sewing away, on your own or with a group of friends or family, remember that you’re part of a worldwide movement and that there are others sewing away with you, not necessarily in the same space, but still there and doing their bit too!

Welcome to the 21 New pods

OlympicECObags
Camelot Carriers
South East Living Skys
GT Bags
Woolsery Baggers
Sew-in-pressed
Sewn2gether
Daisy Bags
GlassyBaggers
Barrow Baggins
upcycling is fun
Magpie
Herne Bay Belles
Tropical Totes
Kinderspielstraße Agenda 2030
Canterbury Food Bank
Grayshott Bag
Cathys Pod
HolySpiritChurch NewLifeBags
Ditsy bags
Stitchers Coven

We’re so pleased you joined us, double congratulations to the several pods which appear on both lists!

Interesting comments

From GlassyBaggers – “We are a group of stained glass makers and we want to create Morsbags, to offer to our customers, free, instead of plastic bubblewrap.”
Great idea, GlassyBaggers, and you’re in my area – just shout if you’d like some input (fabric, thread, help setting up)

Only our second morsbags pod in Singapore!
upcycling is fun writes –
“fighting the plastic bag craziness in Singapore – one Morsbag at a time…”
Hoorah, well done! Someone has to lead the way.

Tropical Totes writes
“Taking the Morsbags philosophy to the Costa Tropical, Spain. Trying to share the fun and rewards of recycling fabrics for good use!”
😀

I love seeing the morsbags message spreading to other countries and continents. How do you think April will go?

[AgwenParticipant]

Thank you once again Beattie for collating the list of bag makers in March.
A wonderful list of active pods and a truly staggering number added to the total.

The number of bags ours replaces is also staggering. I saw a lady in town yesterday with a morsbag made from fabric that I recognised we had used 2 years ago. I wonder how many plastic bags it had replaced in those 2 years.

[beattieKeymaster]

That’s wonderful Agwen! I love seeing bags I and people I know carried round our small town too. 😀 Makes me very happy. Morsbags are so durable.

Sometimes I see them in the wild too – and the one with hand-made label was given out at our first hand-out, during a postal strike. Our first label order was stuck in a sorting office somewhere, so when I realised they weren’t going to arrive in time I sat up til about 3am the night before, hand writing lots of pieces of white sheet and sewing them onto the finished bags. There were seventy-something of them….

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