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Gold and Posies

Nov 18 2011

Sharon Berna needs help locating her quilt top, Gold and Posies. It was last seen in April 2006 when shen was attending her guild’s quilt camp at Mirror Lake or Palmer, Alaska. When she got home, she could not find it in her bags and boxes. She is hoping it accidentally got mixed up with someone else’s stuff, but she has not been able to locate it yet.

This quilt top is twin size. It is mainly gold and cream with purple and ruby posies along with vines and leaves. It is machine pieced and machine appliqued.

Please contact Sharon at bpaw@mtaonline.net if you find this quilt.

 
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Blue Diamonds Jubilee

Jan 10 2011

Blue Diamonds Jubilee by D. Trumbo

Blue Diamonds Jubilee by D. Trumbo

D. Trumbo is looking for her Blue Diamonds Jubilee quilt top. It was last seen in Paducah, Kentucky in October 2010. It was lost out of the back seat of her car during a major shopping trip in Paducah.

This double twist Bargello quilt top is 100″ by 100″. It is machine pieced and is ready to be quilted.

If you find this quilt, please contact trumbo19@yahoo.com.

 
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Crazy Patch Quilt Top

Aug 30 2010

Crazy Patch Quilt owned by Muriel Fitzgerald Jones

Crazy Patch Quilt owned by Muriel Fitzgerald Jones

Muriel D. Fitzgerald Jones is asking for help locating a crazy patch quilt top that was given to her by her mother sometime between 1978-1980. Her mother brought it to Souderton, Pennsylvania between 1980-1985 where she knew someone who could replace a few torn fabrics. At the time, Muriel was unaware that her mother was in the beginning stages of dementia. Now no one knows if the quilt top was ever returned or picked up. An ad was placed in a local paper around 2007 with no response. When Muriel’s parents sold their house in 1993, they hired two women to empty it and clean it, with the idea that they could take anything they wanted. If the quilt top had been returned, it is unknown if one of these women might have taken it or possibly even thrown it away.

Muriel believes this quilt top was made between 1900-1940 by her maternal grandmother and her family. It is a double size quilt top made mostly of fancy dress fabric scraps, including silk-like and velvets. She recognizes a few scraps from dresses her grandmother wore. The tops of the seams around each fabric were hand embroidered with a feather stitch in gold-colored embroidery floss.

Muriel grew up playing under a quilt frame in their Pennsylvania Dutch community. Naturally this quilt top has enormous sentimental value. If you are able to help locate this quilt top, please contact Muriel at mfjpsy@charter.net.

 

Ashley’s Texas Quilt

Jun 22 2009

On June 11, 2009 Mona Alloway’s quilt was stolen out of a truck parked in the Hobby Lobby parking lot at the Forum Mall in San Antonio, Texas. The truck was broken into. The Garmin GPS and an AT&T phone were taken along with a bag containing three quilt tops and three sheets for the quilt backs.

This quilt features the Texas flag, pictures of ranch horses, longhorn cattle, goats, dogs, and cats, Texas wildflowers, and bluebonnets in the white borders along with red and blue bandanas. This is a queen to king size quilt, mainly made of red, white, and blue.

If you find this quilt, please contact Mona at rmalloway@hughes.net

 
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Recovered! Choo Choo Train Quilt

Jun 10 2009

Choo Choo Train by Judy Jensen

Choo Choo Train by Judy Jensen

In 2000 Judy Jensen made a crib-sized Choo Choo Train quilt top from a commercial pattern. It was made for her grandson’s first birthday. She machine pieced it using primary colors. It was at The Quilt Shop in Albany, Louisiana. Judy suspected it may have just been misplaced but after two years she began losing hope. In January 2003 she reported it to the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

In June 2009 Judy and Courney, who originally posted the missing quilt, received the best news! Courtney’s pregnant cousin wanted her to finish a turtle quilt top that was started ten years ago. Imagine their excitement when the unfinished quilt top was found wrapped up inside the Choo Choo Train Quilt!

 
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Giraffe and Animals

May 28 2009

Giraffe and Animals by Robin Hansen

Giraffe and Animals by Robin Hansen

Robin Hansen Buchholz hopes to find a quilt that has been missing since Spring 1993. It was last seen at Tillamook Junior High School during a show-and-tell session. Her daughter brought it to her eighth grade class for a report on pioneers. She took an antique crazy quilt throw, an example of an Hawaiian quilt square in blue and white, an appliqud quilt top of a dinosaur sitting on an egg, and an embroidered quilt wall hanging we called my “Giraffe Quilt”. This was a quilt that I had dreamed of doing. I woke up one night about 2am in the mid-1980′s, after seeing this quilt in a dream. It would use up all the whimsical patterns from cards that my boyfriend in high school had sent me when I was laid up from a bike accident. It had a large giraffe in the middle, surrounded by animals and flowers all embroidered mostly in satin stitch. It had the first lines from “All things bright and beautiful!” poem on the quilt.

Please contact Robin at smakagemor@yahoo.com if you have this quilt.

 
 

Baltimore Album Quilt Top

Mar 24 2009

In 1990 Susan Bergman made a Baltimore Album quilt top using commercial patterns by Elly Sienkiewicz. She made it when she took a block-of-the-month class through a store in Colleyville, Texas. Susan last saw her quilt top somewhere around 2002-2005. She had taught a quilt class at Garland High School and apparently left it behind.

The quilt top is a double size. There are twelve blocks set three across and four down. The background is a two-toned gray. Other colors include maroons and dark green. Most of the designs are from Elly’s book. There is one block with children’s handprints that were from Susan’s sons. One block is a circle of children. The blocks are hand appliqued.

Please contact Susan through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if you’ve seen a quilt that fits this description.

 
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Julie’s Round Robin

Dec 12 2008

Julie's Round Robin

Julie's Round Robin

Julie Higginson would like to finally receive her round robin quilt. It was last seen around December 2007.

Julie writes, “This was a Round Robin project. The last lady to work on it lives in Brooklyn, New York and she added the Delectable Mountains blocks. She then sent it to the next lady in the group who lives in East Bend, North Carolina. That lady let us all know that she did indeed receive the quilt top and would get to work on her addition. We never heard from her again. Each of us in the group have emailed her, left voicemails on her home and cell phones, and I even sent her a personal check and asked her to just return the quilt top to me no questions asked. All to no avail. We had swapped with this lady in the past and never had any problems before, so we are clueless as to why she would do this to us…Several of us in the group have done some research on the lady who stole this quilt top and another one. At first we were afraid that perhaps something dreadful had happened to her, and we were worried about her. But through a bit of research on the internet and making some phone calls, we have found out that she is indeed in good health and still living and working in her community. As a good faith effort, we even sent her own Round Robin back to her recently…and she REFUSED to accept the package! Very strange.”

This quilt is about 50″ square. It is very scrappy, but there’s a great deal of reds and greens, as well as tan background fabrics. The center block is made up of four mini log cabin blocks with a pot of flowers appliqued in the center. The next round are more mini log cabin blocks with red hearts appliqued onto the light colored fabric. The next round is made up of Delectable Mountain blocks. It is machine pieced and machine appliqued.

If you can help with the recovery of this quilt, please contact Julie at quiltmama08@gmail.com.

 
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Pastel Dresden Plate

Jul 13 2008

During Spring 2004 Judy Shelton lost her quilt called “Healing Hands.” It fell off a park picnic table by the community center in Irvington Park in Fremont, California.

This quilt is a Dresden Plate pattern with an appliqued star in the centers instead of the traditional circle. It about twin size, maybe a little smaller. The main colors are soft colored pastels, peach, mauve, green, pink, and blue. Judy used Moda soft prints. This is an unquilted quilt top.

Please contact Judy at sheltonrty@aol.com.

 
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Intricately Pieced Quilt Top

Jun 11 2008

Jeanne Stickler Takano is searching for the maker of a beautiful, intricately pieced quilt top that was left in her care. None of the local guild directories have her name; none of many acquaintances who piece and/or quilt recognize the artist’s name–not even those who also knew the former quilter. Jeanne cannot find a phone number or address (even through vigorous Googling and Yahooing) for the name provided when this work of art was left in her (supposedly) temporary care. Jeanne suspects the quilt top has been out of the artist’s hands for at least 5 years–maybe more–the top and backing have been in her hands for about 2 years.

The quilt top maker gave the top to a quilter in Dallas, Texas. The quilter stopped quilting, moved out of state, and we have lost contact. Before she left, she left this quilt top in my care, with plans for her to return it to the owner. The quilt top is approximately 84" by 94". It is lively, almost primitive gestalt. It has scrappy 1/2" wide piano keys which form sashing. Spring green cornerstones enclose 7-1/2" blocks of 5 concentric squares. All central squares are black, graced by a star embroidered in Perle cotton. There are three borders: black, piano keys, then black. The backing with quilt top is black with green overall geometric design.

If this sounds like your quilt top, please contact Jeanne Stickler Takano through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page to positively identify it.

 
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