Art Quilt. Commercial cotton prints, cotton batting, cotton thread, fusible. Fusing, machine quilting.
A resident of Southern California since 1957, Del Thomas has been making quilts for sixty years, since her childhood in Oregon. But her addiction didn’t start until the late 1970s and it just gets worse every year. She tries the many fascinating new techniques, but she still prefers commercial printed cottons, traditional piecing and few embellishments.
Her quilts have appeared in magazines, a calendar, traveling exhibits, major and minor quilt shows and two solo exhibits. Many are in private collections. Her work was included in the books America From the Heart and Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project.
Del is the owner of the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection that is shown at different venues, quilt guild meetings and all over her house. Quilts from the Collection are loaned to museums and galleries to help promote art quilts. The Collection has grown to more than ninety quilts, some will cover a wall and some are smaller than a playing card. Included are works by well-known and not-so-well-known artists from across the USA, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Japan.
Memberships: Alliance for American Quilts, Beach Cities Quilters Guild, Fiberarts International, Kansas Art Quilters, Quilts on the Wall, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Visions Art Quilt Associates
Color Bowls - Two
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Color Bowls - Two
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Color Bowls - Two
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