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We love them! And they don’t get blunt like pins!
And here they are!
Congratulations on making 1000 bags!
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It was a pleasure Beattie and Frank. We couldn’t have done it without you deffo. It is a great idea to do a special event for the royal kits. Maybe a Christmas event? We really enjoyed and appreciated having the royal curtains in Leicestershire and the publicity has been great but thats it, we have done it and it is someone else’s turn now!
Here is the other mega task that Beattie did for us. This is a photo of my garden with some of the contents of the shed. Beattie brought about 20-30 of the big containers containing fabric into the garden, we sorted it out and she carried them back in. It was an amazing feat! Thank you so much Beattie. Offcuts2 picked up their 8 boxes today!
What I like is in that situation you can talk to several people at once, or rather you can often get a little crowd listening and adding their comments, memories etc.
I agree that the social side is great. We have met so many wonderful people. My favourite is when paths cross like when people say ‘ooh my mum had was given a morsbag in x’ To me that shows that the growth thing is really working. I need to move now to campaign in another county!
So pleased that you are morsbagging again Tracy. I love it that there is the possibility of coming and going. 🙂 xx
Hope it goes well Scalleywagbags and lovely to hear from you x
Yes! I could hear it in the lift,in the loo and in the carpark!
I just want to say a massive thank you to Jenny and Tony Lees for having us along. To Beattie and Frank for all their help, humping things around and company, to Team Leicester for all the pre-show work and their help on the day.
This is a lovely event at a spacious venue and we had a successful day. Squillions of thanks to Beattie, Frank (who set everything up for us) Tori, Maggie, Freda, Jean (who makes morsbags with the children at Leicester Grammar), Sue and Chris.
Very sorry not to see Agwen and the Sazzies this year 🙁
Ooh good!! I’ll see if Sue fancies making it. It would be good to take to events. 😉
Brilliant! Can we have a photo!?
I think that morsbags used for publicity purposes are totally valid. Pol has a whole wall of them.
Might be having a word with our special morsbag maker Sue Lamont to see if she can do us one with the elephant idea.
I was thinking on eating/meeting at Grange Farm pub every evening that Beattie and Masterclock are here; it is my my job to look after Frank’s stomach while they are on tour so I am taking the easy way out!
I do unashamedly pay people who let us use their venues with bags though!
I have seen that Tori and Sazzie have started the page but not had time to look at it properly yet. We have been moving Team Leicester’s base and had 3 big events to organise, I have had 2 babies, another is on her way, and Grumpy has come a cropper and needed 5 hour shoulder reconstruction! And then there is the morphine knocking me out!! But I shall have a good look next week! I wouldn’t have been able to all this stuff without the dedicated help of everybody involved.
So I shall look soon but I think it is a wonderful idea and look forward to hearing how it goes. It is not really my sort of thing, I tend to use vintage fabrics for my work. A friend of mine is a textile artist/teacher and she recently had to scale down her studio and I was lucky enough to be on the receiving end of some of her vintage fabrics. She has just been teaching in France and has come back with some beautiful french linens.
I think Sazzie and Tori’s initiative shows how social media can be used in a positive, interactive way to make links with like minded people. This has happened recently in Leicester when sewing teacher and morsbagger Julia (bobbins and Buttons) said a throw away comment on Facebook about setting up a social group for sewing enthusiasts. Well she did and it is growing and growing. Tori and to a lesser extent myself are on the team. In fact Tori came up with the name Sew Sociable. It is slightly based on the model of morsbags in so far as we are trying to keep it totally free. I have always found that because we give our time energy and bags for free people do everything for us free. In the hundreds of events we have done I have never had to pay anyone for a venue. It is a great move against capitalism! Again its success is mainly due to social media and the enthusiasm of the people involved
The downside of social media is it can be too immediate and stuff can disappear very quickly and this is where blogs and websites come into their own. There is a wealth of information and photos on this and the previous morsbags website showing the history and achievements of morsbags. I am planning to make a book of morsbagging in Leicestershire with the help of Beattie only I haven’t asked her yet!
Tori, if you want to run up some flyers we could give them out at the BTS
Tori and Sazzie, if one of your month’s is original vintage (not modern vintage reproduction!) I’m in and I know a few others who will be! Good luck xx
Tori, if you want to run up some flyers we could give them out at the BTS
Sorry if I have rambled, its the morphine!!
Howabout an elephant carrying a morsbag with a caption ‘never forget your morsbag?!
You might need to check whether we as exhibitors are eligible. We have had lots of chats with Jenny over the months and she has not mentioned it! Also they sponsor our printing so that might effect our eligibility.
Unfortunately Edward didn’t go to school at the new campus. They have only been there a few years. He went to the city version! I did find him on the school photos though when he was captain of the cricket first X1!
Have a safe journey Beattie! 🙂
