Thursday, October 15, 2009

Not Your Baker's Yeast


Felice Frankel's macro photogra-
phy of yeast colonies magnified many times inspired this quilt. The filamented circles, although pretty, are invasive colonies and can cause disease.

Not Your Baker's Yeast - detail


This quilt is made with cotton, silks, velvets, cheese-
cloth, and decorative wools, ribbons and threads. Machine pieced and appliqued, machine and hand quilted