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So you want to make a reusable, original, recycled, washable, strong morsbag that will last for years. Hopefully this will be the first of many, so you can use yours, then make more to give away to friends, family, colleagues and unsuspecting strangers. Beware – it’s addictive!
Grab the pattern below for simple, step-by-step instructions. This basic pattern will help you make a morsbag strong enough to carry your tins of baked beans, bottles of wine and cauliflowers… AND lovely enough to attract glances of admiration wherever you go.
Fancy a change? Feel free to modify it – add a box bottom, longer straps, or change the dimensions. It’s your creation. The only thing we insist on is that you sew a label on to make it a bona fide morsbag, so that people can find their way to the site and make more. That way the word spreads, the cycle continues, and the turtles don’t have to eat bags for breakfast.
Everything you need to get bagging
1. Get the pattern
Simple, step-by-step instructions to make your first morsbag – download, print and away you go.
2. Prefer to watch?
Follow along with our short film and see a morsbag come to life stitch by stitch.
3. Sew on a label
A morsbag isn’t truly a morsbag until it has a label. Labels are what point people back to the site so they can make and give away more – that’s how the whole lovely cycle keeps turning.
We don’t profit from labels – we sell them at cost price. We just ask people to buy them so the word spreads as morsbags are given away and used. Without labels directing people to the site and the pattern, there wouldn’t be anywhere near the huge number of morsbags out there today. So please attach them with pride and joy, and help spread the word!
Making bags for wheelchairs?
We’ve got a special pattern that hangs better on the back of a wheelchair – handy, secure and easy to reach.
There are no rules – only good ones
Make morsbags by yourself, in a group of friends, at school, in your village hall, in a tipi – wherever and with whoever. There are no rules except to create, recycle, give away and enjoy. Everyone loves a newborn morsbag!
The only thing we insist on is a label – so the word spreads, the cycle continues, and the turtles don’t have to eat bags for breakfast.
Ready? Let’s go bagging
Once you’ve made a few, why not gather some friends and start a pod – a local group turning donated fabric into free bags for your community.