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A holiday in Estonia Beattie – that sounds lovely! Just checked and there aren’t any pods there, so there’s a challenge!Good idea to bag the local shop and mini footballer’s families Agwen and Offcuts…
I love these bags and I love the overall idea! Can’t wait to see the next batch… very inspiring 🙂
Great bagging skills – quite an autumnal morsbag! I think I know one of the reasons you love it Offcuts – it has shades of rust in it!
Hope everyone had a lovely Mothering Sunday pampering their lovely mums or being pampered themselves…. 🙂
The entries are stunning – as ever, glad I didn’t have to choose a winner as all look beautifully made and all made me smile at the ingenuity and craft(wo)manship involved! So well done and thank you so much for entering – my mum’s neighbour Sarah (Sarah-Next-Door we ingeniously and affectionately call her) had a browse over cake and tea in our shed/summerhouse yesterday and decided that the winner is…. Sue Lamont (Mrs So Bags) due to the yummy looking fancies on a plate, good enough to pick off the bag and eat! She also loved the Cath Kidston feel to it with the matching floral tea service…. CONGRATULATIONS SUE!
The other bags are terrific too – we all loved the applique and the care and the colours – hopefully they have all been given away with love and will be used and enjoyed for many Mothering Sunday’s to come!
Lovely updates Masterclock and Beattie – Beattie you look so chic in that hat! Absolutely love the fact that you spotted wild morsbags; just shows that a) you’re a wonderful pod and b) how well made your morsbags are that they last so long 🙂
Hope lots of morsbags are enjoying their first taste of freedom out in the wild tonight…
Good luck with the book sale later in March Krisaby
Thanks Offcuts – will look into this a bit more next week.
These are inspirational – lovely 🙂 Thanks for showing us… my morsbags suddenly look a bit dull!
Great to hear that Sazzie is back home – hope she feels better very soon xx
So has anyone been wearing their t-shirts out and about? Maybe it’s a bit chilly for tees…
Brilliant Bagging Barbara and Ruth (and husband!) It’s certainly bagging weather Beattie… 🙂
Thanks Sazzie – and that’s a really good point about email rather than phone… Thanks for contacting local pods and schools too – hope they respond…
OK, so here’s a draft – please suggest any changes here and then we can put in the resources section for general consumption and send it to people hoping they will send it in.
Can you sew? Do you have a sewing machine? Do you have any spare material? Do you like making people smile? If so, you sound like a morsbagger!
I have been a morsbagger in this village for X years and have been making reusable bags and giving them away for free to people in the hope they will use the recycled and lovingly hand made morsbags rather than a plastic bag. It’d be wonderful if even more people got involved in the local area.
Please go to https://www.morsbags.com to download the free pattern and/or watch the ‘how to’ and make morsbags from old curtains, duvet covers, tablecloths etc. or give me a ring on: xxxxxx if you’d like me to give you a hand making your first morsbag, or give you a few of the labels we sew on to help spread the word.
Groups or ‘pods’ of morsbaggers are stitching worldwide and have made and given away over 140,000 morsbags to date – potentially replacing over 73 million plastic bags – but I’d like to concentrate on getting everyone in THIS village supplied with a free, strong, unique, reusable, washable morsbag – and this is where I hope you’ll join in. Many hands make light work and as a morsbag only takes 20 minutes to make you’d be joining in making a lovely gift as a random act of kindness.
Please help spread the word about this non profit, community initiative in some way, or dust off your sewing machine, or phone me, or donate material, or ‘like’ it on Facebook, or tell a local teacher/guide leader about it… the list is endless, and so are the number of plastic bags masquerading as jelly fish in our oceans right now, ready for a whale to ingest.
Thanks, and Happy Bagging!
I love this story!! (apart from all the poorly eyes!) A new generation of morsbagger coming up the ranks!!
Thanks for re posting Beattie. I’ve been sticking to my NY resolution of daily bagging people, mostly anonymously, but if people do find out where the bag came from they tend to thank instead of make…. I’ve started to use the phrases ‘pay-it-forward’ and ‘random acts of kindness’ as a way to get people to understand that it’s an act with a means to carrying the process forward as much as a free gift (although it is of course a free gift as well) but preferably a slightly viral one!
Does anyone else have any ideas about how to move the recipient past the glee stage and onto the ‘please also make one yourself if poss’ stage?!
Thank you for setting that up! Love the care home chat…. perhaps this could be a competition that we need to tell teachers about too…
Sazzie – sorry to hear that the patient still hasn’t recovered 🙁
