Our sweet Linda began quilting in 1999 but started buying the magazines in the 1970s. So, she has wanted to quilt forever! She began quilting at Hayward Adult School in 1999. After the Hayward school was cancelled she and her best quilting buddy, Linda Blackburn, transferred to San Lorenzo Adult School with Kathy in the intermediate class. They had finished their sampler quilts but after spending time in Kathy’s class, they moved back to baby-beginners to learn “Kathy’s” way.
She had wanted to quilt after seeing a Crazy Quilt on display at the Oakland Museum. It made her heart stop! She stood and stared at it for at least two hours. This mush have been around the early 1980s. She thought it was too special a skill that she’d never master but her sister signed them up at the Hayward class.
Married to the most wonderful man in the world since 1970, 41 years in July, they have two daughters and one grandson. She gets to sit with "Jack Danger" four times a week. Isn’t being a grandmother bliss!
Linda was born in Hayward and excepted for two years in Oregon, she has lived in Hayward all her life.
A little known fact is Linda volunteers for the Hayward Police Department, is a block captain in the neighborhood watch, supplies goodies to the DUI checkpoints and was the DARE organizer for over ten years. She was PTA president and room mother even though she doesn’t drive! She had a day care in her home for over 30 years.
Linda collects antique dolls, doll houses and teddy bears. At one point she had a doll hospital but we know her best as the Yo-Yo queen.
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