MOCK PIE STUDIO'S NEW WEBSITE

Mock Pie Studio FINALLY has a website at mockpiestudio.com! Happy day! Please take a moment to view it and let me know what you think!

GRANDMOTHER'S FLOWER GARDEN

In the summer of 2007 we stayed with Ryan's parents while we were waiting to move into our house.


All my studio supplies were packed in storage and I figured I could handle a summer without sewing, but that only lasted about a week and a half!


I headed off to the fabric store and decided to make a hand pieced grandmother's flower garden. I chose colors for the quilt that I was planning to paint in the house: green dining room, yellow tv room, orange library, and white molding.


I finished all the piecing that summer and this year, I hand quilted it. It will shortly adorn the wall in the tv room.

They say that a great quilter can quilt something like 12 stitches to the inch. Pish Posh! My stitches are big 'n chunky and I love them! What do you think?

APPLE-MANIA

It's that time of year again...I'm in an apple pie frenzy! Pie! Pie! Pie!


Midgie looking at me asking, "Whatcha' doin' now, Ma?"


I'm busy making pie...until I die! Kidding. But making 36 pies is A LOT of work. It's the thought of having delicious pie available whenever I want it during the next year that keeps me trucking. I've already made 24, so only 12 more to go!

NEARING THE FINISH LINE

Farmer Gram's little quilts are all hand quilted...

bound with yarn and thread...


signed...


...and will shortly be mounted to canvas for hanging.

In the spirit of reusing clothing, I cut this material from dresses that I have either outgrown or no longer wear and added it to my fabric stash.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE

Happy Birthday, Dad! You're an oldie, but goodie!

THE HILLS OF HOME

Beautiful.

Peaceful.


Home.

Come home soon, Jimmy. I love you!

BITTERSWEET SALVAGE

Bittersweet. According to Merriam-Webster: pleasure alloyed with pain. I have been putting this project off for years, but am glad I finally started. I am creating mini-quilts from some of my Farmer Gram's clothing that I was fortunate enough to salvage after her passing. It nearly went off to the Sal-Val so I am very thankful to have rescued it. As I work with the material, memories come flooding back. Her scent lingers deep in the fibers. Yes, bittersweet.

Strip piecing scraps.


Finished individual blocks.


Blocks post trimming.


Mini quilt layouts on the design wall. Even though the individual fabrics are very different from one another, they still look great together.


At the end of the night...all finished.


Layered with batting, backing, and prepped for hand quilting.

To be continued...