Green sofa and dress

pattern source The Paper Pieced Home

I am a bit behind... know what I mean?
The Rainbow Scrap Challenge Folk have moved on to June's color and here I am finishing Greens.

Making decisions on the sofa, dress and TV were surprisingly hard this month.
I have a lot of stress at the moment, and that probably influences creativity. Still...

I  paper pieced the sofa,  I had to print out the pattern, cut it apart into sections and copy the sections in order to give myself seam allowances. 

Won't you come in and have a seat? Choose any color sofa you'd like... click on any picture to see details.
This time I'm serving limeade cool and tart in a tall glass, please use a coaster... what do you think of my dress???

I love the fabric on my simple summer frock!
Who doesn't love a polka dot? 
Why do they call dots polka dots? 
Do they dance across the surface? 

The little striped belt gives me a bit of a waist...but a person might need a stern foundation garment under such a tailored dress. Plus hose and heels, and a set of pearls. 

Want to see the others in my closet?

I absolutely must do the Aqua sofa and dress for June! RSC
Now the TV is under construction, so there will be no I love Lucy this week... looks like the travel show will be on.

Vintage TV, Sofa and Dress--a l'orange

Shall we put on our dress and pearls, sit on the sofa drinking some Tang, and see what's on TV??

Why, it's a baking show!

You know we baked a LOT in the sixties!!

I even made Eclairs as a young thing in the 70's

I especially like this TV with it's many knobs, space theme, and bright red legs! Wish I had one of these too!


I found this little scrap given by a friend, in my orange collection, so it had to be pieced in right??

One of the bakers had to be appliqued.

These are paper pieced, paper-doll dresses.

Remember paper dolls? We were not so fussy in the sixties... we were happy cutting out paper clothes to fit our flimsy cardboard ladies, with little tabs to fold over her shoulders.

The doll stood on a cross piece, and we would place them near each other, "walk" them around, talking for them. Dressed in fancy clothes we wanted to wear, saying fancy things we wanted to say.

"Darling! Do come in and enjoy the TV, it's COLOR don't you know?!"

We would change their clothes often...

Pattern for all three blocks is paper pieced home

 

Imagine having a sofa like this today! With those awesome shiny painted turquoise legs?? Awesome! 

Then having to choose between all of these...

I think this would be a fabulous design for today's family rooms, don't you?Which one would you choose?  To watch your favorite show on one of these TV's...

Linking to several parties including RSC  

and  can I get a whoop whoop

monday making 

Midweek makers   I was featured on this blog, how exciting! 

"If life is what you make it, I'll make mine colorful!!"

What would you watch on a purple TV set???

Finishing up the month of purple at superscrappy  my purple TV.
Wish I had one like this, don't you?  (it's only missing rabbit ear antennae and a layer of dust!)

The Paper pieced Home

The seams aren't pressed well so it looks like it's not aligned, but it is.

There are all three sets to the left... can't have too many!

There is a bit of static on the brown and blue ones, but the sewing show is coming in loud and clear on this purple one!

I've been collecting fabrics to remind me of the 50's and 60's for a couple years now, but haven't found exactly the right pattern idea to make the quilt yet.

These ladies seemed to fit the era...
When I was growing up, my people made their own clothes so naturally as soon as I could take a class in sewing I did. I made my clothes all through junior and senior high school. Halter tops, hot pants, jumpsuits, and lots of pretty summer dresses.

As long as I can remember I have loved TV.

She came from this fabric

can't wait to see what else comes from using this.

And
Goody for me to cut into a piece this big!









A couple weeks ago my friend Mari, at academicquilter   sent me this surprise...

She said it looked like me...

awe shucks! It sure does!

I might just make a shirt today...

LeeAnna

linking to parties see my links page
A couple are: Freemotion
and sew cute Tuesdays 

Purple dress and sofa

Voila my purple sofa and dress blocks of the month.   Love the red legs on the sofa!!!

I didn't have time to do the TV yet... stay tuned (pun intended)

All three colors so far,










check out other people's purple blocks at   http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/
And the three sofas...have a seat!

brown dress, sofa, tv and recliner

whew! That's done.
Brown is the focus color of the month at RSC2016
Using the book, Paper pieced home I did these retro blocks in browns from scraps...

The tv is my favorite. We had a tv like this when I was growing up, as I told you about here: CLICK
The one in brown seems to have a fuzzy picture, guess the station went off the air for the night, time to go to bed!

First of all, I love the designs.
Second, I hate, and I know that's a strong word, hate her patterns. 

The only way I got through them this time was to print one out from the cd (I bought that book of patterns with good money, thinking she would have done that for us)

Cut CAREFULLY along the faint blue lines separating the 7 sections on just the chair block alone, RE-COPY them separated into sections so that they can be Paper pieced in a normal fashion.

She does not do this for us despite it being on a CD. She does not enable us to resize or flip orientation despite it being on a CD.to resize them,  I get in the car and drive to office depot and fuss with their copier.

Who doesn't remember lazy boy recliners??

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.    (SewPrecise software is SO MUCH BETTER)

But I do like her line drawings so I did the work to make my own patterns from them. I guess Ill go to the store to try and mirror image the chair if I do another one. Which is questionable.

The things I do like. The shapes. The Fabrics I found in the scrap bin that look so interesting on the sofa and TV. The brown and pink fabric scrap for the dress. In our 1960's house, we had a rattan porch sofa with cushions similar to the palms on this one. The hexies on the seat cushion are for my love of that shape and metallic gold. The turquoise legs are just plain fun.

 I wouldn't mind brown so much if I found a sofa like this one.So here's the room of mismatched furniture...

just like around here.

sofa, TV and a dress

I have had a lot of fun lately using my blue scraps.
The RSC2016 party going on is celebrating the color blue. Following my mantra of "USE IT!" this year, I tried some patterns from a book I bought called The paper pieced home.

My review?
While I love the designs, so many of them clever retro items...
While I love paper piecing...
I do not enjoy the format of these patterns.

So you print them out from a cd. The author has not added seam allowances or broken the pattern into sections. You have to cut VERY CAREFULLY on the little blue line to create sections.

I wish I had taken each section to the copier and printed again because having no seam allowances to sew through made the whole process very unstable. Grrrrrr. Rip, rip, rip.

That being said, I might have to do 12 sofas in rainbow colors this year. AFTER I print out the sections again this time with seam allowances all around. That might make the section joining easier. It just makes me cross to pay for a pattern and it doesn't do what you expect.

The little paper doll dress is cute but again, rejoining 9 sections on a little block is annoying when they squiggle around. Still, it's cute, which is why I bought the book.

We had an enormous cabinet tv in the 60's. One where you had to adjust the antennae. You had to get up from a sofa to turn knobs to change it to one of the 6 available channels! The squiggly line showed up when the programs went off the air at the end of the night and they played the National Anthem.

I only wish I had a blue tv now! I love the little circle fabric used in just the right spot to make crazy knobs.

On the TV we had when I was growing up, the knobs fell off, so we often had to turn the channels with a pair of pliers. I was the "remote control" because I was the youngest. I could be called in from another room to change the channel. If the picture was hazy, I could be called into service to hold the antennae in an awkward position.
Can you relate?