Who’s Who in Pieced Together Quilters - Milinda Mayfield

Milinda Mayfield has been quilting since 2004. Her mother, Lizzie, needed to have a kidney removed, so, Milinda required a challenge to divert her attention. Thankfully, her mom is doing great and thinks every quilt Milinda makes with a butterfly belongs to her.

Not married – no children and all her animals are stuffed! She does have lots of nieces and nephews that she enjoys spoiling then sending home. Milinda loves her purple house and her purple studio where she sews for all the family and friends.

Quilting since 2007, in Kathy Honeycutt’s Thursday evening class, she moved to Pieced Together Quilters with her class-mates. Pat Bailey was the sweet quilter who brought Milinda to us.

Other than quilting, cycling for charity and skiing and gardening are her hobbies. She grows vegetables, having just harvested 12 ears of corn, tomatoes, green beans, green peppers and turnip greens.  Milinda loves to cook, but doesn’t collect cookbooks. She says she cooks better than her mom just getting recipes from the internet and friends.

She works for Cisco Systems so she doesn’t have as much time to PLAY as she would like, so most of her time is spent quilting and tending the garden.

Milinda is a California girl born and raised.  She was born in Fresno, grew up in Oakland and now lives in Hayward – in the purple house. A world traveler, Australia in the summer is heaven.  However, no matter where she goes, there is no place like home!

Our cute Milinda was the California Spelling Bee champion in Junior High School, competing in the State Capitol. She finished third in the state. What an accomplishment. I can barely spell Barbara.