Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Dorothy Wadsworth

Dorothy Wadsworth has always sewed, making clothes for her family, was a dressmaker and was a tailor. During the war she worked at Hamilton Field and was assigned to tailor uniforms for the service members. She lived on base and ate in the mess hall. They found out she liked spinach so the mess cooks loaded her tray - mile high - with spinach. Also, at Hamilton she delivered mail On A Motorcycle!

Dorothy also painted and sold her paintings in Castro Valley. Additionally, she painted signs on cars and business windows. She finally began quilting with Linda Cumming in the last 1980s. Dorothy taught decorative painting for the seniors at Hayward Adult School and oil painting in Alameda. She won second place in coloring in second grade and was featured in the local paper. She even did upholstery and furniture refinishing. Our Dorothy is just a Renaissance woman!

Kathy Honeycutt was also one of her teachers and Dorothy learned a lot from her. Linda Cumming and Dorothy took quilting lessons at Daughtry's in Castro Valley together, but didn't remember that until the shared notes.

Married 61 years, Dorothy lost her husband last spring and is still having a difficult time without him. We all remember her loss. They have four boys and 11 grandchildren. Dorothy is blessed to have four great-grandchildren. It might be more...! Dorothy admits to having Senior Moments! Well at 87 years young it happens.

Born in Annapolis MD - her dad was in the Navy, where they moved to Los Angeles then to Vallejo where she went to school through high school. In the second half of the 12th grade she went to Long Beach to stay with her grandmother.

A little know fact about Dorothy is she was a Cub Scout Leader and made the boys sew on buttons and make tea towels. She also learned to swim in the ocean when she was five and when she was a Girl Scout she learned life saving.