Barbara Adams grew up on a farm in Oregon. She had her own horse who was ¾ thoroughbred and stood 17 hands high. She saddle trained him herself.
Her grandmother quilted and she always wanted to learn. She retired in 2000 but contracted seven more years. However, she found time to quilt when she began taking Kathy’s class in 2003.
Barbara is active in her church and began a Quilt Ministry. She began buying fabric from a gentleman who worked for AAA. He sold fabric at flea markets. After he found out that Barbara was using the fabric for quilt donations, he gave her the fabric.
The Quilt Ministry started out with four women in 2008 who knew how to quilt. Two from Kathy’s class were in that first four – she and Barbara Goldhammer. They now have 13. The quilts are tied and with each knot a prayer is said. The quilts are blessed in church by their pastor and the back contains a cross and a label explaining that the quilt was stitched with love and prayers from Calvary Lutheran Church. In the first year they gave away approximately 200 quilts and this year will exceed that number. All quilts are requested and not all the recipients are Christian, but are asked if they would accept the quilt with the cross on the back. They have gone to people all over the United States and Europe.
Married to the same wonderful man for 46 years, they have one daughter and two grandchildren in San Jose. One is 12 and the other 15. They met on a blind date and the rest is history. Barbara has many hobbies and loves to cook, but a little know fact – she was a biker-girl. Well, her whole family were bikers. They each had a Yamaha motorcycle. She, her husband and daughter would ride the gold country hills together.
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