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Hahaha, Ivybags! I might take your advice 😀
Great work all morsbaggers!Congratulations morsbaggers, what a November SewVember we’ve just had!
131 pods added morsbags to the worldwide tally. This is the second-highest number of active pods to add morsbags to the monthly tally – ever!The pods on the roll of honour this month are –
3Ps In A Pod
Abergwaith Stitch & Bitch
Ambitions
Angie’s Bohemian Bags
Baggers of Gowerton
Bagpuss
Bags from Rags
Bags Galore
Bagsy
Bagzee
Bargebaggers
Bartley Bagger
Bella Napoli
Belperbaggers
BishEcoBags
Brierley Bags
Broadland Bag Lady
Bude Baggers
Busy Bees
Butterfly Bags
Churchstoke Baggers
Claire Bear Morsbags
Coastal Dunes
Coco Creations
Coffee and socks
Crafty Maid
Cuckoobird
Darting Frog
Day-Light
Debi’s stuff
Die Nähdamen
Dilyn@EC
Earthlings
eco.on.the.quiet
Ecobaggers @ St.George’s
ECOBAGS
ECOTBAGS
FabGBags
First State Pod
FOLKE BAGS
Fraser Valley Morsbags
Frau D.
Frutteltuttel
Gatchastitch
Gemma Pegg’s Pod
Great Oakley and District U3A
Greenbags
GT Bags
Handcross Bag Lady
Harborough Morsbags
Helping Handles
HopStitching
Ivybags
Joli Sisters
Kathy’s bags
Kingsley Bags
Knitpatch
laudatosi.cdm
LC Valley Morsbaggers
LoopyBags
Macs Bags
Mad bag lady
MaggiesBaggies
Megsmors
Middlesex Federation of WIs
Monifieth Morsbags
Monty Morsbags
Morsbag Meisters
Morsbags
MorsbagsLudgershall
Nanamontana’s pod
Nanapodster
Nannypaddy
NeuenburgNäht
newbridge on wye
Newby old bags
Niffy Bags
NoMoreWaste
Nottingham City WI Bag Ladies
Odd Handles
Odds n Ends
OHS Green Council
Olney pod
One Pod
Oxford Craft Club
Pickering Morsbaggers
Plastic Free Bingley
Podronus
Polly’s Pod
PotCaf Bag
Ragtag Bags
Sally South Bags
Sasha’s pod
say no to plastic
Settle Age UK
SheilaMatilda Bags
Sinjun’s Bags
SJBBags
South East Living Skies
South Molton Scrapstore
Squeak’s Bags
St Paul Baggers
Staffordshire Stitchers
Stakes WI Bag Ladies
Stitching Kitchen
Stoffbeutel
Sue’s Mountsorrel
SWLQ
Tatty Princess
Tethera
The Bag Bubble
The Bay
The Chickadeez (and friends)
The Fig Derby
The Lazy Baggers
The old bag
Thornbags
TLT Morsbaggers
Toni Fab Bags
TricksyBell’s Pod
Two Doors Studio
Ummi’s Love
upcycling is fun
Upper Wreake
Valbags
Wantage Pod
Western Cape Morsbags
Whetstone Whales
Whissybags
YouCan
Zebediahs
32 NEW pods joined in November
They are –
Cranbrook Quilters’ Guild
Ecobaggers @ St.George’s
Great Oakley and District U3A
Coastal Dunes
OHS Green Council
Kathy’s bags
Bagzee
Baggers of Gowerton
Richmond-1st
Jubileeclip
Joli Sisters
Echt EcoBags
Cazbags
Patch-Up-Girls
Bags Against Garbage
Bags Afloat
The Bag Bubble
Minipod
Momma Bear Creates
Lindas morsbagging
The Bay
PuddleJumpers
Lingwood Quilters
Gisusabag
Mummylady
mary’s pod
All Saints
Nairn and District Baggers
Bagsy
Fraser Valley Morsbags
Busy Bees
Stoffbeutel
32 new pods is almost a record-breaking number, not quite topping the record set after SewVember 2018. New pod registrations have gone through the roof since January 2019, so the annual total is shaping up to be very interesting.
Just as a comparison, in the whole of 2018, there were 204 new pods registered.
So far in 2019, we have 398 newbies. Amazing growth, so good to see. 😀And how many morsbags did these industrious sewists make in SewVember 2019?
The answer is 5562, which is almost as many as in last year’s big effort. We were 61 bags short of equalling last year – so close! (Just about 1% less, a negligible amount.)Interesting Comments:
Cranbrook Quilters’ Guild has just joined morsbags.
“Our pod consists of the members of the quilters’ guild in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Our membership varies from 65 to 95 people from year to year. We are planning on making 150 Morsbags, one for each attendee at the quilt conference we are hosting near our city in 2020. Quilters from miles around will be attending to share ideas and inspiration.”
Baggers of Gowerton writes
“We have an ongoing number of pillowcases received from another project, we will make into bags :)”
I say “Great idea!” Pillowcases can make great morsbags, quickly and easily.
One Pod of Brighton writes:
“We are a socially active church engaging with food poverty, homeless and environmental issues. Just taken over a farm which supplies our farmers market & our social activities. Found Morsbags at Great British Sewing Bee where I was exhibiting my quilts & fabric origami. Want to give out bags at our farmers market, at our barista training project and at other places”
Momma Bear Creates writes:
“Making bags from surplus clothes left over from my memory bear business, I always felt it was an awful waste throwing away excess fabric if the owners didn’t want it returning to them. I know my customers will be behind me knowing that their loved ones clothing is going to make the world a better place. Please feel free to join me”
OHS Green Council writes:
“We are a high school environmental club with a mission to empower students to make positive change in their school and community by modeling and promoting sustainable habits with a focus on reducing waste. We have collaborated with area sewing experts who stitch together the fabric we cut for our Morsbags.”
These two comments from new pods summarise what morsbags is all about.
Fraser Valley Morsbags says
“Sharing bags with family and friends and encouraging fellow sewists to help reduce the plastic waste in our landfills and oceans.”and Busy Bees’ comment struck a chord with me –
“Wasn’t sure why I had kept left over material for years until I heard about Morsbags – obviously they are the reason why!”Stashbusting at its finest!
You’re not the only one to have this problem. I thought I remembered answering a similar question a while ago
It’s actually over four years ago, but I hope it helps.
Sorry you can’t post pictures directly, Stoffbeutel.
The photos need to be on a picture hosting website such as flickr.com. This is the one I used to use, until they started charging for hosting more than a small number of photos (which I had long since passed).You could try Instagram, imgur.com, or add them to add morsbags.com facebook page to share with other morsbaggers. I googled “photo hosting sites for forums” and found a variety of suggestions, some of which want you to join.
Thanks very much for covering my job as well as yours Ivybags! Mistress of the labels, and pod authoriser / number-checker extraordinaire 🙂
I’m sorry for the late arrival of this reply, gemcat, and thank you for taking the trouble to reply FabGBags.
I think it got lost while I was on holiday, apologies to both of you.
You’re doing a great job sending out the label orders Ivybags. I’m sure it gives you an accurate picture of mors-activity.
How much do people have to pay for a robust bag for life if they’ve forgotten, Dartfrog?
Good work Tintin! 😀
I’ve yet to make my first SewVember 19 bag, but hope to get it done this evening.That sounds like a big step forward Dartfrog! People will have no excuse for not having a bag with them now.
Thanks for those suggestions for showing photos Ivybags. (And welcome home again! 😀 )
Hetty, another tip for using very thick fabrics occurs to me. You may find it easier to make the body of the bag the alternative way out, i.e. join the side seams with right sides together first time you sew them together, trim some excess fabric if necessary to neaten and reduce the bulk of the seam, then turn the bag right side out and sew the side seams again. This avoids having to turn the bag the other way out when you’ve sewn the side seams for the second time. It’s really difficult to make “tidy” corners with lots of layers of very thick stuff that doesn’t like to bend!
I’ve found that a lot of people like to have a bag made of thin fabric as it fits easily into pocket or handbag. I’ve never used interfacing to stiffen tops or handles of bags, but the morsbags design is very flexible and if that is what you prefer, that’s just fine.
Hi Hetty! Thanks for your question. We find that really quite thin fabrics can work really well for making morsbags, provided that the fabric is strong enough. Some fabrics are thin as they are worn out or may be degraded by sunlight (curtains and their linings are particularly liable to become brittle and thin through this).
Morsbags have been made from very light sari fabrics with beautiful results and the bags made from them are very strong – it just depends. Bags that rip and let the user down are not what we want, as you are obviously aware.
If you are unsure you could see you easy it is to tear the fabric. We have sometimes had fabric that tears in one direction but not in the other – confusing, so try in different directions.
You could make a test bag and try it out yourself, to see if it is likely to give way when in use.
If the fabric is lovely and worth the extra trouble you could make the bag with a lining.
Other uses for possibly unreliable fabrics are to use as applique pieces / patches / pockets to enliven otherwise dull bags.
You could use thinner fabric to make morsbag handles as the fabric will be folded into multiple layers and sewn lengthways a few times. Contrasting handles can make a nice touch and using thinner fabric for the handles is a good tip when making bags out of thick fabric.
Sometimes people think that making a morsbag out of extra thick fabric will produce an extra strong bag, but unfortunately it is more problematic, as when sewing the handles into the “pointing up” position you sew through eleven thicknesses of material. Domestic sewing machines struggle to cope with that, but using sheeting for the handles on bags made from upholstery fabric can work out better.
Any other comments from other morsbaggers?
Hi Gemma, you can contact site admin using the email address admin@morsbags.com
I see that you have registered a pod and have added 2 bags to the tally. What do you want to do that is giving trouble?Thanks for your input Rosie! I thought you’d been quiet recently – will email / phone you XX
Brilliant Gemcat! I see a new pod that I think is probably yours. There’s nothing like getting on with what you want to do. You can have your own pod and meet up with an existing group as well. 🙂 I hope you find morsbagging fun and make friends too.