BOCONNOC STEAM FAIR part 1
Here we are, home again after a weekend of morsbaggy happiness!! 😀
Were we lucky with the weather??
I should say so!! 😀
We arrived early on Thursday afternoon and set up our stand in a lovely spacious marquee. We had a generous 10 foot frontage – which was about 6 feet deep too, but as it backed onto a stall selling craft supplies we couldn’t use all sides of the table. No worries, we had enough space to fit in three hand crank sewing machines and plenty of storage space for the reserve machines, kits for the other days and other necessities.
When we were set up and ready we retired to our caravan which was parked a couple of fields away – with the classic car owners this time – and fried sausages, to the accompaniment of rolling thunder. After a lot of rumbling the lightning and rain joined in and we had a classic, lengthy thunderstorm that went on for hours and hours and…. you get the picture. It was still going on and lighting up the caravan when we went to bed and I woke up a few times during the night hearing rain on the roof.
But, lucky us, the next morning dawned dry if not sunny, that was coming later. I donned my wellies for the “walk to work” and got ready for the first customers.
Here is Masterclock giving the first three sewing machines a once over.
It took quite a while til I could tempt anyone to sit down and sew a bag with us, but at last this lovely lady came and sewed. As we stitched, she told me that she was here on a coach trip and had spent the last four years in a Buddhist retreat. Guess what she did there? Made bags for the monks to take out with them – and also made pleated meditation cushions that sounded very complicated. So making a morsbag was a breeze!! 😀
We had a humourous misunderstanding. I thought the Buddhist retreat was in New York, but it turned out later that it was NEAR York! 😳 LOL !
This gorgeous lady had a stall opposite us, selling beautiful scarves and bags. We made her a bag out of one of the most popular fabrics this weekend. I’d cut up a HUGE king-size duvet cover a couple of days earlier and it made 18 and a half kits (the half was a small bag). Almost all of the 18 kits are already sewn up and in people’s hands and pockets. It’s a good job we had so many, or we just might have had punch-ups, or at least, disappointments. The ultra-popular fabric was a mid grey, with small pink and white sprigs of flowers and leaves. Perhaps it was a bit vintage-y. I don’t really get its appeal, but lots of others did – it just goes to show there’s a taker for every bag!!
I had nettle falafels for lunch from the wild food stall 😀
http://www.wildfoodkitchen.com/
(Went back for some to take home after we’d packed up but found that so had they…. 🙁 Oh well, another time…… )
I discussed how to make them and could probably give it a go now 😀
We and our “customers” made a total of 22 bags on Friday – and the best part was the large number who said “I AM enjoying this!” 😀
Several stall holders and people exhibiting interesting vehicles
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/14700188911/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/14516704389/
found us rather late in the day on Friday but came back on Saturday or Sunday and made bags later on, so that was nice!!
It’s now nearly midnight, so part 2 and part 3 will have to wait til tomorrow afternoon.
Adios for now, morsbaggers! 😀
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