Hi Jen, yes, do make modifications if you like. We find that shoulder bags with long straps are quite popular. I also sometimes make bags with extra short handles – popular with the less tall. For children I find slightly smaller bags are good – about 15″ wide works well, and correspondingly shorter. We try to make the best use of the material and if that means that they are a bit varied that’s just fine! I find “Beach bag” shaped bags that are wider than they are deep and with long handles are popular too – just go with the flow.
If you want some variation, I have a few really GIANT bags that I take when buying loo rolls or kitchen rolls (or big Lego sets for Christmas presents), or on holidays to contain laundry. As long as it is made out of reused or repurposed fabric, has a morsbags label on it, is used instead of a plastic bag and is given away free (or used by the maker!) it counts as a morsbag.
Re the polypropylene tape you ask about, we’ve used it, but find it hard to find wide enough. It’s very hard and tends to cut into the hands or shoulders of the bag user unless you find a wide one, and it tends to break sewing machine needles. Himself (who also makes morsbags) comments that you don’t want it to be too thick (as opposed to wide…) as it is more likely to break needles when it is thick and is hard to bend upwards into position when sewing across the handle so it points up out of the bag.
On the plus side, it does save sewing up lots of handles and is almost indestructible. Also comes in lots of jolly colours.
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