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.