Lincoln Park Quilters
All Levels of Quilters Welcomed – Especially Beginners!
Lincoln Park Quilters is an extension of SFQG. We invite SFQG members to visit and/or become regulars. We meet “in person” on the 1st, 3rd and if there is a 5th Friday of each month (9:30 AM to 11:30 AM) at the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church. It is located at 417 -31st Ave. off Clement St. SF. (Ring the doorbell on the Clement St.door if you arrive after 9:30 AM). Each attendee pays $3 per visit to cover the space rental. We zoom from home on the even Fridays of the month.
Our space includes a number of round and rectangular tables and chairs. We all help to set them up and put them away before we leave. There are also 2 wall storage cabinets for several of our sewing machines and quilting equipment. There is a kitchen and 2 bathrooms. The stage and tables may also be used for pinning quilts. We also have stage space for free quilting items.
Through the years, we’ve sewed thousands of pillowcases, face masks, wheelchair quilts, quilts, holiday stockings, holiday bags, and preemie quilts going to clients of various organizations. Trudy Hom-Gee leads our volunteers to coordinate with Adrienne Hickmann and Jessica Church in SFQG community outreach projects.
Either Betty Tang- Fitzpatrick or Caroline Lieberman “Calls the Group to Order,” make announcements, ask for show ‘n tell, and schedule programs. Other members may demonstrate various quilt and craft techniques.
Weekly email reminders for zoom with the link or for our “in person” gatherings with agreed upon guidelines. The email may include information on upcoming quilting techniques and/or craft demonstrations.
Contact Jeanie Low with any questions.
Our Sew ‘n Tell Quilts
Lincoln Park Quilters 1985 to the Present
Since 2024, a sewing group within San Francisco Quilters Guild, the Lincoln Park Quilters (LPQ), began in 1985 when a senior group at the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church approached Caroline Lieberman who was teaching quilting at Marina Middle School for City College of San Francisco (CCSF). The LP location and class was approved by the CCSF administrator and the class was named “The Lincoln Park Quilting Class of the Older Adults Department, City College of San Francisco.” LPQ has always been open to anyone wanting to learn to quilt. From the beginning, the early group of LPQ distinguished themselves by designing and creating several important and unique group quilts.
The group consisted of 28 members and Caroline. Some of whom were Kristen Havared, Janet Glessner, Mildred Breitbarth, Linda Breitbarth, Nonny Murray and Kay Nagata. Two techniques that Caroline taught were applique and handquilting that were used in many of the group quilts. The first quilt was to make a quilt to celebrate the Golden Gate Bridge’s 50th Anniversary. It is entitled “Golden Gate Bridge, 1937-1987.” Each person worked on a block featuring a San Francisco landmark such as: Mission Dolores, the beach windmill, Transamerica Building, Crooked Lombard St., Palace of fine Arts, the GGP Bandshell, Conservatory of Flowers, City Hall, sailboats, the beach, Ghiradelli Square, Ferry Building, Coit Tower, a cable car, Japantown, a Victorian and other scenes. The Golden Gate Bridge was the large center motif. It was completed in 1987 and it won several ribbons. A drawing was held among them and Caroline won the quilt.
The LPQ enjoyed making group quilts, so they embarked on making a second one. It was the“Hans Christian Andrersen – Fairy Tales” quilt. (80” x 90”). There are 20 blocks surrounding a larger center block with a swan. In 1988, the quilt was donated to the city of Odense, birthplace of Hans C. Andersen. It was hung in the Odense Museum to commemorate the city’s 1000 year jubilee.
LPQ continued with their 3rd group quilt the “California Academy of Sciences Tribute ” that was completed and donated to the Academy in 1992. 24 various size blocks surround a center block featuring the courtyard sculpture of the pair of intertwined whales surrounded by smaller sea creatures. Various blocks featured the many facets of the former California Academy of Sciences’ varied exhibits and programs. After the new Academy was built, that quilt was placed in storage. It was displayed during our QUILT San Francisco 2025 quilt show.
Quilt #4 was the “The United Nations’ Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Quilt” in cooperation with the United Association of the USA., Northern California Division. The quilt depicts the spirit of the United Nations as expressed in its charter, signed in San Francisco on June 26,1945. The quilt was completed in 1995. Since the building’s remodel, the UN quilt has been in storage at the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center, San Francisco. The LPQ quilt maker names are listed on a quilt label on the quilt back. Several years ago, Jill Shustoff represented LPQ in showing the quilt at a American Quilt Museum quilt show in Paducah, Kentucky. Her grandfather attended the signing of the UN Charter.
The Friday class did all the letters on the Sesquicentennial quilt. Janet Glessner created the Ft. Ross. “The California Sesquicentennial Quilt: Celebrating 150 Years of California Statehood” that was completed in 2000. Statewide, 230 quiltmakers applique and handquilted vignettes depicting unique characteristics of the 58 counties. It was created under the guidance of lead artist designers Ellen Heck and Zena Thorpe and organized by Helen Powell. LPQ members were invited to the quilt launch at the Gold Mine in Marshall Gold Discovery Park. Governor Pete Wilson dedicated the quilt. That quilt is on permanent public display at the California Museum in Sacramento: Sesquicentennial Quilt – California Museum.
In recent years, the LPQ continued under Caroline Lieberman until City College of San Francisco downsized and defunded the LPQ older adult quilting class. By popular demand, LPQ continues as one of SFQG’s sewing groups under Caroline and her core group (Betty Tang, Nancy Bardoff, Julie Duerksen, Maren Larsen, Dottie McHugh and Jeanie Low) to oversee the groups’ 36+ members and interested friends. For the last few years, Trudy Hom-Gee works with Adrienne Hickman and Jessica Church to coordinate the 1000s of community outreach items LPQ have made: holiday gift bags, pillowcases, quilts and covid facemasks.