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Hi Tintin! I’m so glad you can join in too! 😀
I’ve got some kits ready to sew, will set everything up later today, so I hope to get a good start tomorrow morning.
I’m so glad you’ll be joining in with the Chickadeez Jan, good to have you aboard. 😀
The home page is admin territory Jan, sorry, I’m powerless! I just show the spam the door.
Welcome Ursula! Wouldn’t it be good if your labels arrive in time for the International Morsbagging Weekend!
Have you got some fabric made into kits ready to sew?
Great Kathy! I’m looking forward to it, have some kits prepped
Would they pose a fire risk? I don’t think I could recommend using them as insulation unless covered by a reliably fireproof layer.
I know someone who recycles surfboards as pin boards. They’re covered in used coffee bean sacks, trimmed with recycled rope and sold at a profit, I hope. She has also contemplated chopping them up to use as bean bag filling, but you can’t believe the mess that makes!
That’s wonderful news, Newbiebagger! Well done for an excellent day spreading the word – you all did brilliantly. 😀 Thanks for writing such a great report of a lovely day. It’s particularly encouraging to hear that some people arrived with morsbags already 🙂
Thanks for the suggestion Rosie! I used to enjoy International Morsbagging Days – and we all made lots of bags 😀
I’m so glad it was a success Jan!
The day AFTER the Great British Sewing Bee we were walking along the Embankment near Lambeth Bridge when I saw this red phone box.
I have no idea what was in it, all four sides had blinds drawn down and there was a fancy lock on the door….
Saturday and Sunday
On Saturday we were joined by Marie who had travelled from Buckinghamshire, and Helen and Kate, who I think both came (separately) from London, so there were seven of us running the stand. Joe is the one missing from this photo, being behind the camera.
Plus Baby Morsman as before, making her contribution of course.
Luckily someone remembered to take a photo of some finished bags – thank you!
Marie brought a few wheelchair bags (the handles go fore-and-aft instead of side-to-side, in case you were wondering) and also some wheelchair bag kits, all nicely labelled so we wouldn’t get confused.
We made 68 bags on Saturday, not a bad haul for the day!
Sunday was the last day of the show and the “core four” (Claire, Joe, Frank and me) were joined for the day by Helen again (she must have enjoyed it!), Nicky (a friend of Chris who came on Friday – he obviously didn’t put her off too much). Sarah came down from Leicester again for the afternoon and Rosie managed to get a lift from a friend who was coming to the show, presumably to buy and network.
I hope this will gladden Marie’s heart – the first customer of the day was in a wheelchair and chose one of the special kits she’d made up.
Our stand was within earshot of the catwalk where a variety of dresses made up from Vogue patterns were modelled twice a day to catchy tunes that got into our heads for the rest of the day. On Thursday, a couple of the models visited us and one, Charlotte, decided to make a morsbag. She picked a kit and got started, but unfortunately, was a bit short of time and had to go and re-do her make-up before the bag was finished, so I gave it to her to look after and invited her back another time. On Friday the stand was manic, with long queues and when Charlotte returned we were too busy to fit her in. Saturday passed without her looking in, but on Sunday she came back with a friend and was able to finish her sewing.
Her friend, Laura, was able to make a bag too.
Joe talking
Nicky with a very patient queue
Sunday afternoon
On Sunday we made 70 bags, making a total of 294 over the four days of the show.
I will draw a veil over the breakdown process, let’s just say that it was over with, eventually!
What made the whole effort worthwhile was meeting so many people who “got it”. They like sewing, have fabric some of which they’re not quite sure what to do with, and got the whole “Random Acts of Kindness” ethos of morsbags – as well as saving whales, turtles, sea birds and all sorts of other wildlife.
If you joined after meeting us at ExCel and the Great British Sewing Bee, welcome!
Thanks for your posts everyone and apologies for taking so long to add my twopennyworth. We’ve been recovering from the unaccustomed effort! I forgot to take any photos, except for a few on Sunday, so I hope nobody minds that I’ve taken some from peoples’ posts on facebook and uploaded them to flickr.
Wednesday, Thursday and FridayMost of the kit we needed for the show was transported by James the very kind friend of morsbags who has a campervan. The rest was put in our car boot and Claire (with morsbaby), Frank and I arrived at ExCel on Wednesday afternoon. We set up our stall as best we could and retired to our various accommodations to meet again on Thursday morning, ready to finish off decorating and preparing.
F and I had a simple quarter of an hour walk from our hotel, Claire and Joe had a more complicated traverse from their hired house-with-no-chairs-or-lightbulbs. We had a pleasantly busy day – the show wasn’t packed,
but we had enough customers to keep us turning over and by the end of the day we’d made 65 bags. Sarah had the presence of mind to take a photo of the last customers of the day.
Friday dawned and we met up as before, being joined today by Mike and Wendy of Macs Bags and son Bernie, who was over from Germany – all of whom we’d worked with before. We also had the pleasure of the company of Em who’d travelled from Market Harborough and Chris who’d cycled about half an hour across London to reach us.
A couple of interesting observations – we made 91 bags with 9 volunteers on the stand, of whom five were men and four were women. Who says sewing’s for girls?
To be continued…..
I noticed that last night, but it was late and I’d logged off so I grabbed a screenshot to post later.
Congratulations to morsbaggers everywhere, it’s an amazing total to reach, especially considering those bags have been made by people in their spare time, working unpaid.
As Sarah says “Here’s to the next quarter of a million”
I’m so pleased you got the labels you needed Jan. I hope they arrived in time for your event and that it was a success.
What lovely news! Thanks for sharing it with us, Dillyshambles!
We had an even busier day today. Thanks for getting stuck in and starting your pod so promptly.😁Kathy, I’m so sorry, I have only just seen your post from 23rd July. I will email the administrator of the morsbags flickr group and see if she has authorised you. I don’t know why you’ve been having problems posting photos.
I’m so pleased you’re having fun and making more friends Jan! It’s great that you’ve got a drop-off point for donations now, and that donations are arriving. “I love it when a plan comes together.” 😉