Quilts with beads to be topic at guild meeting

FALLBROOK – It’s all about beads this month for the Oct. 6 meeting of the Fallbrook Quilt Guild. The guest speaker will be Thom Atkins of Santa Cruz, an artist of many dimensions. Atkins is well known in the art world for his glass art, sculptures, landscapes design, not to mention bead work incorporated into quilt art.

After a traffic accident, his wrists and thumbs were damaged so molding and kneading clay was out of the question, so Atkins decided to combine a love of fabric and beads into extraordinary quilts. Besides, quilts are far more easier to pack around than sculpture, although he s...