In my fabric stash I have extra poems and images leftover from previous quilts. In 2018, I made Almost Cherry Season and printed surplus copies of both the image, a reduction print of cherries, and the poem, which I had letterpress printed from handset metal type. Recently, after arranging the wood type letters P I E on the press, I printed and overprinted the words in piecrust brown, then let all sit to cool, various ideas for them still cooking.
The acrylic triangle templates I had just bought for the diamond-patterned quilt were the way in: pie wedges. And cutting the print in circles to break up the straight lines became the compositional answer.
The title? A little printer's joke. When type is "pied" it means it has all fallen over and jumbled.
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