A Week of Blues

 With blue being the RSC colour for January, there certainly was plenty of blue in my week.  I have  added another RSC to the mix.  You may remember that I stitch up draw string bags for foster children from time to time - they use them for toiletries, pencils, or to keep treasures in.  There is a big bag sitting by my sewing machine on the floor, stuffed full of small pieces of fabrics, lining, and cords.  Any interesting small pieces of fabric which I think might be suitable gets put away, as well as random quilt blocks.  Why not use the RSC monthly colour prompts to get stitching bags again, I thought.

A bag full of bag makings

So I went looking for blues, and found pieces to make 8 bags.  They were mainly dark blue, but that doesn't matter at all.  There are trains, baskets, fish, sailing ships, a random happy block, colourful rectangles, and nails of many hues.  When I purchased this fabric quite some time ago I thought it was full of pencils, but no, they turned out to be nails, which just goes to show that you see what you expect to see.  And not forgetting the jandals - summer beach footwear, also known as thongs overseas.  Not here in New Zealand though, thong is the word we use for those rather skimpy undies! I'll continue making these bags each month if I have fabric of the selected colour.

Eight blue draw string bags

My favourites, the jandal bag, and Thomas the Tank Engine's friends

I've done as much as I can on my secret heart project - need to purchase some border fabric next.  So I've shifted my attention to the second half of this project, the stars.  These need sashing, I've made a start so I'll keep stitching away.

Blue stars

And how about this for a beautiful blue creation?  Vicky from our Creative Crafts group  has finished her gorgeous blue coat, a one of a kind original.  She has done couching, and applique, adding all sorts of beads, threads, ruffles etc to show an undersea wonderland with the seagulls circling in the blue sky above.  She is happy  for me to show the photo on my blog.

Wow, this coat is amazing

I've been to the movies again, this time  to see "Song Sung Blue".  This tells the true story of a pair of out of work singers who meet and become a Neil Diamond Tribute band.  The music was amazing, I was sitting engrossed enjoying the story, their stage performances,  and the songs, when bang, tragedy struck them.   I won't tell you the rest of the story in case you want to see the film.   If you love Neil Diamond music, I certainly recommend this film, it is the best one I've seen in ages.  

Song Sung Blue

There was a sadder "blue" happening this week.  Robin's brother Gary had died just before Christmas and I attended his memorial service mid week.  That was certainly sad, Robin's passing was mentioned, and there were family photos of him in the photo tribute, so there were plenty of tears seeing his image up on screen.  Gary was four years younger than Robin, and they died twelve months apart.