Saturday and Sunday
On Saturday we were joined by Marie who had travelled from Buckinghamshire, and Helen and Kate, who I think both came (separately) from London, so there were seven of us running the stand. Joe is the one missing from this photo, being behind the camera.
Plus Baby Morsman as before, making her contribution of course.
Luckily someone remembered to take a photo of some finished bags – thank you!
Marie brought a few wheelchair bags (the handles go fore-and-aft instead of side-to-side, in case you were wondering) and also some wheelchair bag kits, all nicely labelled so we wouldn’t get confused.
We made 68 bags on Saturday, not a bad haul for the day!
Sunday was the last day of the show and the “core four” (Claire, Joe, Frank and me) were joined for the day by Helen again (she must have enjoyed it!), Nicky (a friend of Chris who came on Friday – he obviously didn’t put her off too much). Sarah came down from Leicester again for the afternoon and Rosie managed to get a lift from a friend who was coming to the show, presumably to buy and network.
I hope this will gladden Marie’s heart – the first customer of the day was in a wheelchair and chose one of the special kits she’d made up.
Our stand was within earshot of the catwalk where a variety of dresses made up from Vogue patterns were modelled twice a day to catchy tunes that got into our heads for the rest of the day. On Thursday, a couple of the models visited us and one, Charlotte, decided to make a morsbag. She picked a kit and got started, but unfortunately, was a bit short of time and had to go and re-do her make-up before the bag was finished, so I gave it to her to look after and invited her back another time. On Friday the stand was manic, with long queues and when Charlotte returned we were too busy to fit her in. Saturday passed without her looking in, but on Sunday she came back with a friend and was able to finish her sewing.
Her friend, Laura, was able to make a bag too.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/23521896358/in/dateposted-public/
Joe talking
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28356801@N08/23521894828/in/dateposted-public/
Nicky with a very patient queue
Sunday afternoon
On Sunday we made 70 bags, making a total of 294 over the four days of the show.
I will draw a veil over the breakdown process, let’s just say that it was over with, eventually!
What made the whole effort worthwhile was meeting so many people who “got it”. They like sewing, have fabric some of which they’re not quite sure what to do with, and got the whole “Random Acts of Kindness” ethos of morsbags – as well as saving whales, turtles, sea birds and all sorts of other wildlife.
If you joined after meeting us at ExCel and the Great British Sewing Bee, welcome!
Recent Comments