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Roman Holiday

Missing
May 03 2013

HamiltonDenise-RomanHolidayDenise Hamilton is asking for everyone to be on the lookout for her Roman Holiday quilt. The quilt was last seen on April 29, 2013 in Cabot, Arkansas. The shipper recorded that it was delivered to the front door in Tampa, Florida. Only a door tag was recovered at the destination.

The quilt is 70″ by 80″. The main colors are red, creamy white, aqua, and olive green. She used Moda fabric from the Roman Holiday collection (from around 2006). The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted. All of the blocks are diamonds or triangles. She used a large, red and white stripe for the border and mitered the corners. The picture shows the quilt top before it was long arm quilted. When the quilt went missing, it had been quilted but did not yet have binding or a label.

If you find this quilt, please contact Denise at andhamilton@gmail.com.

 

Recovered! Garden Walk

Recovered
Apr 26 2013

LeaderLois-GardenWalkLois made this quilt in 2012 for her son-in-law, Ryan Wright, in honor of his graduation. Lois shipped the quilt on March 14, 2013 from Hemet, California. The quilt was professionally packed and addressed by a third party vendor. It was supposed to arrive in Ithaca, New York on March 21. The shipping company says it was delivered to the front door at 12:05 PM. Lois believes the quilt may have been delivered to the wrong place, since their apartment is on the side of the house and doesn’t have a front door. If it had been delivered to the front door, it would have been received by their landlady. Another possibility is it could have been stolen from the porch.

On April 22, Lois reported the wonderful news, “My lost quilt has been found! A woman purchased the quilt from a store in Ithaca where someone had sold it to the shop owner. She was able to obtain my son in law’s email address from someone on Facebook. She contacted him and he met her yesterday to receive his quilt. If it hadn’t been for the label on the quilt, our son in law would never have been identified and the quilt returned to him. We are thankful the woman did the right thing and returned the quilt! He received it yesterday, one month after it had been incorrectly delivered to the wrong address and stolen from the front porch (I believe) of the landlady. Miracles do happen!!”

Lois used the pattern found in Eleanor Burns book, Egg Money Quilts, to make this 112″ by 112″ quilt. The flowers on the front of the quilt are two shades of red, both in the same design. The background is white with a leafy scroll design. The binding was the darker of the two red fabrics. The backing of the quilt is Michael Miller’s Fairy Frost fabric in white. The quilt was professionally machine quilted with red thread.

LeaderLois-GardenWalk-fabricsThis quilt has a label on the bottom right corner of the back of the quilt. It says words similar to this: “Garden Walk quilt was made for our son in law, Ryan Wright, as a graduation present. He is graduating from Cornell University in May 2013 with his MLA (Masters in Landscape Architecture). Ryan chose the colors for the quilt. This quilt was made in Hemet, California by Lois Leader and given with lots of love to Ryan by Lois and Bill Leader. The quilt was machine quilted by Karen Gehring.” The label was attached by hand stitching with the feather stitch.

 

Purple Folk Art Quilt

Missing
Apr 26 2013

Jan is wondering if anyone might have seen her missing quilt. It features light purple and a variety of other fabrics. The quilt features a barn, a brown horse, a girl and boy holding hands, all appliqued on. The boy and girl had yarn hair that was looped. This is not a “polished” quilt, but likely considered folk art. By quilting standards, it would be considered crude.

The full size quilt was made by her grandmother, Mildred Peterson in the early 1970′s. It was last seen in the summer of 1984 in Columbus, Minnesota. It was lost in an abandoned house on 164th Lane in the mid 1980′s. A girl had run away from home, and she was staying at the house. Jan brought her this quilt to keep warm. Somehow, she never went back to get the quilt. Jan writes, “It is my hope that somehow – some way – that it found its way somewhere. And someday it will find its way back to me.”

If you find this quilt, please contact Jan at braids@q.com.

 

Clothesline bag

Missing
Apr 13 2013

FiedlerWilhelmina-ClothesliWillie Fiedler made the Bali Bag from Auntie Two as a store sample for Tumbleweed Quilt Shop in West Barnstable, Massachussetts. It had been on display for about three years. Then, on April 10, 2013, Willie noticed an empty space where it usually sat. She looked all through the shop and tore her sewing room apart, but could not find it.

This bag was made with a Bali Pop (selection of 2-1/2″ wide strips of batik fabrics) and clothes line. It is made by wrapping the fabric strips around the clotheslines and machine stitching the rows together. The handles are also covered clothesline and are attached with large Dill lime green buttons. The finished size is about 14″ deep and 12″ wide. It is mainly blues and greens. Willie is able to identify it by the sewing inside.

If you find this bag, please contact Willie at wbfiedler@msn.com.

 

Cat and Mouse

Missing
Apr 12 2013

WelschVickie-CatAndMouseSarah Welsch hopes someone has seen a quilt that her step mother made for her when she was 15. She last saw it in March 2003 in Gadsden, Alabama. A friend of hers had the quilt and was planning on returning it, but they lost contact with each other.

The purple quilt features a black and white cat and a grey mouse running to a piece of cheese. It says, “Sarah 2001-02″ on it.

If you have seen a quilt that fits this description, please contact Sarah at AquaGirl2107@aol.com.

 
 

Recovered! Shadowbox and Scraps

Recovered
Apr 09 2013

OsterTamara-ShadowboxTamara Oster hoped someone could help her locate two missing quilts. They were last seen on December 31, 2012 in Albany, Oregon when she shipped them to Virginia. The delivery company claimed they delivered the box at 8:24 PM on January 9, 2013. They arrived home shortly after 9:00 PM, but the box was gone. A neighbor had seen the delivery truck, but didn’t see a box at the door.

More than four months later, on April 9, Tamara rejoiced, “The lost has been returned!!!! I was on the METRO on my way into the Pentagon this afternoon, when I received a call from a detective from Fairfax County police (it pays to file a police report!!!). He told me about an attorney who had contacted the police and thought he had some stolen goods. Long story short, the officer told me there were a couple of quilts, a silver tray, some scarves….yes, yes, these are the things from my box. Not everything was returned, but the most important item was there – my grandmother’s quilt top. Safe and sound, along with the quilt top was our niece’s quilt still wrapped in the plastic we had used to ship it from Oregon. Ken and I are both over the moon – we know who delivered it to us…Please share my grateful heart with all those who have been on the out for these precious quilts.”

The first quilt, above, is called “Shadowbox.” It was made for her niece, Jamie, to commemorate her graduation from law school. The queen size quilt is mainly blues, greens, and browns. It includes a stained glass iris fabric. This quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted.

OsterTamara-IndianThe second missing quilt was made by Tamara’s paternal grandmother before she died in 1963. Her father kept this quilt top in his mother’s cedar chest for about fifty years. When he came across it again, he entrusted it to Tamara to finish it. The quilt top is about 80″ by 60″. It was made of 2″ by 2″ scraps of flour sacking, aprons, and clothing. A few of the pieces are 2″ by 4″. There are pinks, lavenders, dark blue, yellows, browns, and reds. One fabric that stands out is one similar to the fabric at left with Indians on it, but the one on this quilt is medium brown.

 

Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Missing
Apr 07 2013

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAPatty Biasca reports the loss of her Double Wedding Ring quilt. Her quilt was last seen on January 6, 2013 in Walnut Creek, California. Her house was burglarized on January 8. Patty writes, “The crook dumped the contents of my dresser top and a couple boxes from the closet in the middle of my quilt, folded it up, and took off. Nothing has been recovered, other than our new car he drove away in, thank goodness. Still, I miss this quilt every day.”

This quilt is queen sized. The main colors are blues, greens, and purples with a white background. It is machine pieced and machine quilted. Patty made it in 2003.

If you find this quilt, please contact Patty at patbiasca@aol.com.

 

Grandmother’s Flower Garden Variation

Missing
Apr 06 2013

HallbergLaVonne-GrandmotherPlease keep an eye out for this Grandmother’s Flower Garden variation. This quilt was made by LaVonne Hallberg’s mother sometime between 1935 through 1940. It was last seen during the summer of 2006 in Royal, Iowa. It was taken from her mother’s house by someone with a key, or someone who was looking at the house with the realtor. LaVonne’s sisters didn’t want their mother to find out it had been stolen, so they never filed a police report. This quilt would have been passed down to one of the daughters if it had not disappeared first.

This Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt fits a double bed. The main colors are blues, pinks, greens, yellows, and purple. The centers are plain colored with a floral fabric around the outside of each flower. This particular quilt is distinctive due to the purple diamonds that surround each flower. This quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted.

If you find this quilt, please contact LaVonne at larhallberg@netscape.net.

 

Recovered! Cannabis Quilt

Recovered
Apr 05 2013

JunkinCandace-MFM1Candace Junkin of Moms for Marijuana reported the loss of two quilts.
The main panel is 18 ft by 24 ft. The smaller panel (shown below) is about 8 ft by 10 ft. The two quilts were in the rooftop luggage rack of a beige Ford Explorer. It was parked in a CVS parking lot on Thorton Lane in Irving, Texas when the quilts were stolen. The quilts were last seen around 6 PM on April 5, 2013.

JunkinCandace-MFM2These two quilts were made from squares donated by people all over the country. Candace writes, “After over 2 years of dedicated work, and more than 70 volunteers, we just want our baby to come home!!!”

The same day these quilts were posted as lost, the large panel was recovered. The smaller panel is still missing.

The views and opinions expressed by the owners of missing quilts do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions held by the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
 

Miniature Yo Yo Quilt

Missing
Mar 20 2013

LewisPat-YoYoPlease be on the look out for this miniature yo yo doll quilt. It was on loan to the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. It was being displayed on a doll-sized brass bed in a display case in the lobby. The bed and the quilt disappeared on February 27, 2013.

The quilt was made by Pat Lewis who volunteers at the museum. It is just 6″ by 6″. Pat hand pieced it from 1930s reproduction prints.

If you can help with the recovery of this quilt, please contact Judy Schwender of the National Quilt Museum at jschwender@quiltmuseum.org.

 
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