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.