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.