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Thanks to Offcuts for pointing out the duplicated pods in the list above. Hope we’ve got them all now. 😉

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Excellent work Charnwood Pod!! I haven’t seen them added to the tally yet – when you do, we’ll count them into August’s figures. That’ll get us off to a flying start for the summer hols 😀

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LOL! Nice that you’ve found it though Tarragon! 😀

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How are you getting on with ways to keep your morsbags tidy in handbag/pocket Tarragon?

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Thank you Butterfly and Krisaby! 😀

I was very glad I’d taken the tarpaulin! We’ve worked in marquees pitched on grass before and come across the “interior rain” phenomenon before, even when we weren’t just under a hole to let a tent pole out. You can get an awful lot of condensation.

Still, we had an enjoyable and productive weekend away, and M/C can justify having 4 wheel drive now 😀

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We came, we saw, we made bags.

After attacking the connector between car and caravan lights with sandpaper to remove the corrosion that had built up since it was last used, we drove to Boconnoc, a large country estate near Liskeard, arriving at lunchtime on Thursday. We found a big luxurious marquee with almost nobody in it so far, so we lost no time in setting up our pitch while we could park conveniently just outside.

We retired to our caravan with dire forecasts ringing in our ears……

Next morning we lay in bed speculating on what was making the noise we could hear. Was it grasshoppers dancing on the roof? Was it a plague of locusts battering on the walls? Was it a team of humming birds practising clog dances aloft?
I think you may have guessed – and I was glad I’d remembered to pack wellies.

A day of heavy showers meant that we got off to a slow start. Just as well, as there was a bit of mopping up to do. Our pitch had a tent pole in the corner and the canvas didn’t quite meet the pole, so it rained onto our gear stacked close to the pole overnight. Fortunately I’d wrapped our spare supplies in a tarpaulin, so there was only a shallow puddle.

We had a steady trickle of customers and I managed to bag nearly all of the craft sellers in the tent.

Friday = 20 bags made

Saturday’s weather dawned glorious and we had a lovely, happy, busy day. It got quite warm in the marquee, but it wasn’t too hot.

This trio of ambulance personnel took teamwork to a new high and worked together very amicably to make their bag

and the little girl helped daddy by winding the handle very sensibly.

The people selling all round us seemed to be doing a good trade, all went well.
Saturday = 21 bags made

On Saturday evening the couple camping next to us (they’d brought a classic car to show) heard the weather forecast, packed up and left. As did lots of other exhibitors and some of the traders.

Sunday found the clog-dancing humming birds at it again, they woke us, they woke EVERYONE up several times during the night. There was a steady stream of assorted vehicles heading up the hill and out of the gates as we had breakfast and slithered to our post in the lovely, almost completely dry marquee.

One of the crafters who lives close enough to go home told us that they had to wait to get in through the gates as they were blocked by vehicles leaving – and when the burger vans start leaving, you KNOW things are looking bad!

We sat in our tent, made bags and chatted with any passers by – we had plenty of time to discuss their old sewing machines, after all! 🙂

A lady selling lovely vintage jewellery brought some fabric that her daughter had bought while she was working voluntarily in Uganda and I made her a bag out of some of it.

We were still steadily busy – some of the stall-holders came and made themselves a bag, while keeping and eye open in case they got a customer.

Sunday bags made 24

Usually we let the people in a hurry leave before us, we sit in the caravan, have a cup of coffee, make and eat some food , then pack up and go, but Masterclock was worried about the state of the mud in the gateway to our field, so we got organised licketty-split and headed for home. That involved the inaugural use of M/C’s car’s four-wheel drive option and I was very glad we had it.

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Thank you Tarragon! As Offcuts says, it’s nice to have other enthusiasts to talk to! 😀

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Wheels already invented 😉 –

1) I’ve made bags with an integrated pocket sewn onto the inside top folded over seam, so it dangled inside – could hold your shopping list when bag is unfolded. Sorry, can’t find a photo, I’ve changed computers.

2) I made a bag that folds into an outside patch pocket –

I got the idea from one of those rainproofs that folds into a pocket on the front.

3) Ivybags did instructions on how to make a morsbag that fits into an integrated minibag on the old website. The instructions are here –
https://morsbags.com/forum-archive/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1471

4) Pennywill invented a bag with Velcro and a strap –
https://morsbags.com/forum-archive/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=781

This isn’t a morsbag, but it gave us some ideas….
https://morsbags.com/forum-archive/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2246

I’d be interested to see if you come up with any more cunning wheezes Tarragon! 😀

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Offcuts wrote “And who said anything about sewing machines!!”

It was Wenznz who mentioned sewing machines –

“… our sewing retreat is a residential weekend where we pack up all our sewing machines and equipment and sew uninterrupted for the weekend.”
So that’s why I assumed we’d bring sewing machines

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I remember Sazzie getting the threads off with parcel tape wrapped round her hand. I hadn’t seen that before and I think it’s a great tip!

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I get worried with ritzy joints – sewing machines often leave scratches in my experience. Certainly the old ones have scratchy bottoms! I’d hate to wreck an arts & crafts table 🙁 At least Goddards looked as if it has nice easily swept hard floors, rather than carpets that hold every thread. Especially in the skittle alley…..

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Sounds lovely Wenznz. I think Offcuts may be onto something, though Goddards looks a bit ritzy to me! 🙂

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Hi Gudrun! We’d love to see your pictures 😀

Joby wrote a piece about adding photos/ videos to your posts when this new website was produced. It’s here –

Embedding pictures and video

I use http://www.flickr.com to host my photos but I believe other hosting sites work too – there’s instagram, photobucket.com and lots of others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo-sharing_websites

Basically, you don’t upload your photos to this site, you upload them to the photo sharing site of your choice, write your post on here and include a link or links to where the photos are held.

I’ll add some spaces to the address of the photo below so you can see what it looks like.

https ://www.flickr.com/photos/27935030@N04/17111335656/in/photolist-s554Wy-rPMQDS-rPLF3N-s7n1ki-rPUDBM-s54Smj-s1THb8-rJv2bg-rJv1VB-rYEqiU-rJv1tz-rJn4cq-s1XtZe-r5a2hF-rSpaBm-rzVV2L-rA4Gtz-qVHQVX-rzXdqd-rzXdch-rwZArw-rPto5X-qSLkBZ-qSyqgU-qSh59G-ruXiK8-rkeBDd-r6njQ2-r6f63W-r4v2Ar-qZp4gN-oSNGkX-oSnXk2-oSnXev-oSnXaT-oSnXbz-oSnXbe-oSnX5x-oMG4J9-oLptH1-otWjBk-oLoAsW-otVHCA-oLozZb-otW1qm-otVH8h-oJoAsS-oLozHu-qqPV37-r6f3yC

I added a couple of spaces after https so that you could see what I’d copied and pasted. You don’t need to use any of the buttons above – and especially, you don’t need the “img” button any more.

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I noticed!! 😉

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Mmmm Abinger – I used to go Youth Hostelling around there – not far from Holmbury St. Mary and Ewhurst Green. Happy days…. 😀

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