Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Jennifer Schofield

Our Jennifer Schofield and her dear friend Dawn Luber, were the last Baby Beginners to join our Tuesday evening class at San Lorenzo Adult School. So, I have a special affection for the girls. Enjoy her story. Barbara Heep

Jennifer Schofield (Jenn) attended Kathy’s baby-beginner class in 2008 and has been an active quilter since.  Jenn is a Physician’s Assistant who works in the orthopedics, office and operating room.  She is an avid 49ers fan and a Trekkie!!! Her two adorable kitties are named Athena and Starbuck, which are Battlestar Glactica characters. Mom and Dad love it when she brings these grand-kitties around for a visit.   Can I say she is a lady after my own heart?

Her current project is Grandmother’s Flower Garden – just to have something to do with her hands. She has MANY UFO’s at home and wants to finish at least one project. Since she works full-time and has a very active social life, quilting comes in third. 

Jenn grew up in Danville, went to school at UC Santa Barbara and finished graduate school at USC. She now lives in Dublin with the two cats.  She lives close enough to visit her parents frequently. Mom and Dad are crazy about their youngest child as she only has an older sister with who gave Jenn four nieces and nephews.

Dawn Luber is the friend who brought her Kathy’s class and then told Jenn about Pieced Together Quilters. They are co-workers and good friends. It is so cute to see them together. Just like sisters!

Jenn has made at least ten quilts and numerous smaller projects. Her favorite is the Shoofly Mystery Quilt from Kathy Honeycutt’s class.  She promises to bring so we can see her masterpiece.

A little know fact about Jenn is she was adopted. Both she and her sister were adopted from separate parents. Jenn loves the fact that her parents won such a precious prize in the baby lottery. Thank you Jenn – I so enjoy our special time together.

Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Susan Burke

Our Susan has only been a member of Pieced Together Quilters for two terms but has accomplished much in that time.  She has finished table runners, pillow cases and knit & crocheted items for sharing almost every meeting. She has been a quilter over 20 years because her baby sister, 10 years younger, showed her how. 

 Diana Davallou told Susan about our group and had she known, Susan would have joined sooner. Diana showed Susan all her quilts inspiring Susan to start again.  Susan was in Kathy Honeycutt’s Tuesday evening class for 14 years in the late1980s and 1990s. She had to stop when her nephew was diagnosed with cancer.

Married 43 years in June to the most wonderful guy in the world.   She met Dennis on a blind date. They dated through college and were married at the Naval Academy – under the swords. She says it was the most romantic wedding in the world. They have two children, a boy and a girl, but no grandchildren. Susan had to give away a score of baby quilts since there are no babies in the offering.  Susan’s daughter, Sara Burke, is best friends with Kathy’s daughter-in-law Megan Brock Honeycutt. They were in dance class together, and scouts and in the same school in Alameda.

A native of Virginia, Susan and her husband came to the Bay Area by way of the Navy.  Dennis is from New Jersey, and was the first YANKIEE she’s ever dated.  Good match Susan.  He took her to see Gone With The Wind in New York City and the audience cheered when Atlanta burned. Susan was appalled!!!  They were in the Navy – six years active and 21 years in the Navy Reserves.

A little know fact about Susan is she taught school 38 years – K though fourth grade in San Lorenzo Public Schools.  She did missionary work in India and China with First Covenant Church in Oakland.  The Chinese government closed their school in China so she didn’t get to go this past year, but she is still active by e-mailing the students every week.

Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Pat Kelly

Pat is a totally self-taught quilter. Her mom had a sewing machine and Pat has always thrown things together and sewn. She took sewing in Junior High School and made her clothes then. Her first quilt was then too – like a crazy quilt. Her mom bought wool fabric and they used it in the cabin in the winter.

Not a member of Kathy Honeycutt’s class, she ran into Linda Long, from the evening class, while shopping for fabric JoAnn’s and joined Pieced Together Quilters. After joining our club, she discovered she had two neighbors in the day class and two neighbors in the evening group. After all the quilts she made before – joining our group was incentive for her to learn to quilt correctly!

Married 50 years this May – to the greatest guy in the world. Ron and Pat met right out of high school and soon welcomed two daughters and a son. Her oldest daughter, Debbie, has two daughters and her son, Ron Jr., also has two sons. Her youngest daughter,  Karen has two sons and a daughter. Now she is waiting for great-grand children. Her grandchildren range in age from twenty to five.

Other than quilting, Pat is a youth chaperone in Rainbow Girls, she snow skies, loves to read and she and hubby have a motor home and they travel around his hobby – drag racing!  He and their son race super stock and super gas. Pat enjoys cooking for her clan.

Pat was born in Alameda, grew up in Oakland now lives in San Leandro. 

A little know fact about Pat is, she always wanted to sing. She’d love to have a Karaoke machine as she thinks she sounds like Patsy Cline. She and her husband love to square dance too, but she really doesn’t like Country Music that much. Thanks so much Pat for sharing all this with me.

Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Jan Marshall

When Jan was in college she spent spring break with a friend. The friend’s mother was a quilter. So, after she retired in 1994 as an executive secretary at Kraft Foods in Hayward, then in Pleasanton.  She took Linda Cumming's class. She did attend a free class with her Bernina purchase, but that just whetted her appetite to QUILT! She finished the sampler quilt, finally finished hand quitting the sampler years later.  She joined Kathy Honeycutt’s class two years after Linda’s class. She quickly made friends, which she still keeps.

 Married 56 years in June to the most wonderful man in the world. They have three girls and five grandchildren. She got a puppy but shared with her daughter that babies are so much better.  She also had grand-dogs. At Christmas there were eight dogs at the house.

She still attends San Lorenzo Adult School Wednesday mornings but is so grateful to have Pieced Together Quilters.  Jan attended Kathy’s class for years and is still heartbroken after losing Kathy.  She is thrilled to have so many quilting outlets like the guilds, SLAS and, thanks to Joan Allie, our little club.

Besides quilting, Jan loves knitting, counted cross-stitch, gardening, reading and cooking. She got a new kitchen last year and thoroughly enjoys using it. Jan is sitting here knitting away telling me about her Labradoodle, Jennie, who is the most wonderful dog.

A little know fact about Jan is she was Navy brat who luckily ended up back here in California.  She was born in San Francisco.

Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Doreen Griffin

Doreen began quilting in Kathy’s first class at San Lorenzo Adult School – over 25 years.  She had to make her own templates and hand piece her quilts – Kathy insisted we learn “The Hard Way” first. Doreen lusted after a quilt but couldn’t afford it so she joined the quilt class with her friend Karen Ross. They bought fabric at $3.25 a yard back then.

Her favorite quilt is a color wash Irish Chain using many colors. She would love to make another Irish Chain.  She loves to do hand work but wants to machine quilt. She does have one quilt that she needs to finish hand quilting, but her hands hurt so she may have to send it off the Amish.

Other than quilting she loves the San Francisco Giants and gardening. She has a small little deck so she only grows flowers.  She loves geraniums and fuchsias. She loves reading – her last book was “The Help.”  She loaned her Kindel to a friend in South Korea – she can’t wait to get it back.

Doreen grew up in San Leandro and now lives in Fremont. She works in San Francisco but on quilt night she drives to Bay Fair BART station so she can come to group. Otherwise, she wouldn’t get to Fremont until 6:10 PM.

No children but she does have two nephews, Finn and Kerry a Labradoodle and a Wheaton terrier.

A little know fact is Doreen has the largest stash of UFOs in the history of quilting.