Red and Burgundy Drawstring Bags

 Red is the colour for Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month, so I dug into my big bag of bag making bits and pieces, lining fabrics and cords,  to see what I could find.  I like to make drawstring bags for foster kids from time to time and have been using the RSC colour of the month to keep me on track.  Not much red there at all, just enough for one bag.  This one has cute little teddy bears with red bows on it.  I got this little piece of fabric from a pile of free fabric at my quilt club meeting this week.

Teddy bear bag

There were several pieces of burgundy fabric to use, that's close enough for red, I decided.  So I stitched a bag made from burgundy tie fabric, that might appeal to an older boy, perhaps.  Then one using a piece of Japanesey looking fabric, and then I had some  New Zealand print.  Lastly was a small bag featuring little dolls.  The bags all end up being  slightly different sizes, depending on the size of the feature fabric I have to use.

Four more in shades of burgundy

I went to see the Wuthering Heights film recently.  But first I re-read my copy of the book, to make sure I knew what was what, and who was who.  I was disappointed in the film, there were so many major differences.  But to those filmgoers who have never read the book, it probably would have been quite a good film, with gorgeous dramatic scenery and plenty of passionate lovemaking taking place.  Of course, that never happened in the book, theirs was a love of the heart, mind  and soul, even surviving death.  It is a strange book, full of love, power, cruelty and revenge - not a classic love story at all really.  

My daughter gave me this book some years ago, and I treasure it.  Nicky has her own copy and told me she likes to re-read it every couple of years, she is a real fan.