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Archive for the ‘Double Bed’ Category

Grandma Flower Garden

Jan 27 2012

Alice Kennedy hopes to recover a quilt that was made by her grandmother, Etta Shaw. In January 2009, she gave it to a quilter who does longarm and hand quilting as a business in Garden Grove, California. At the time the quilter said it would take three to four months to finish. Alice was willing to give her extra time and stayed in contact with her until sometime in 2010 when she was unable to reach her by phone or email.

Alice’s quiilt top is about double or queen size. The blocks are vintage fabrics from the 30′s and 40′s and the background is muslin. The blocks are hand pieced.

If you are able to help Alice recover this quilt, please contact her at audiewee@earthlink.net.

 
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Kaaterskill

Mar 12 2011

Kaaterskill by Janet Atkins

Kaaterskill by Janet Atkins

Janet Atkins needs help recovering her quilt, Kaaterskill. It was being returned to her in New York via 2nd Day Air from Golden, Colorado, but the shipping company can no longer locate the package. This quilt was last seen on February 16, 2011.

This quilt is 82″ by 82″. It is hand pieced, hand appliqued, and hand quilted. Janet used a variety of reds, yellows, purples and greens. It is closely hand quilted with red and yellow thread. The backing is muslin. It has four central compass blocks surrounded by vines, a purple block border, and an outside vine border and it has a triangle outer edge. Janet worked on this quilt from 2005 to 2009. There is a label on the back with the quilt’s name, Janet’s name, her address, and her phone number.

The Times Union of Albany, New York picked up the story on March 17, 2011.

Update May 15, 2011: You can see this quilt on the front cover of the June/July 2011 issue of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/issues/June_July_2011.

If you can be of any help recovering this quilt, please contact Janet at RAtkins@aol.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.

 
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Double Wedding Ring in Yellow

Jun 23 2009

Susan McDougal is searching for a Yellow Double Wedding Ring quilt that was made by her grandmother, Susan Titter, and her great-grandmother, Nina Barry. The quilt belongs to her mother, Velma Titter, and it is not known what has happened to it. The quilt was last seen in 1993.

This quilt is double bed size. The background is yellow. The small squares making up the wedding ring pattern are a variety of colors in 1930′s prints. It is hand quilted and was made sometime during the 1930′s.

Susan writes, “The quilt has lots of sentimental value…When I was a little girl and got to stay home from school when I was sick, I used to lay on the sofa in the living room with it.” If you can help Susan, please contact her at susanynp@gmail.com.

 
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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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Purple Tulip Quilt

Dec 21 2007

Joyce Mitchell dreams of recovering a Purple Tulip quilt which was made by her grandmother. It was intended to be a gift for Joyce when she got married. The quilt last seen in June 1971 in Denard, Arkansas. When Joyce’s grandmother moved in with her aunt, the quilt “disappeared” from the linen closet. Joyce suspects her aunt really sold it. If that is the case, it was probably sold or given away in Jacksonville, Arkansas around 1980 or so.

This purple and white quilt fits a double bed. It is hand pieced and hand quilted.

Joyce writes, “I really would love to have my quilt. I would be willing to buy it from whom ever has it.” If you can help, please contact Joyce at joycemitchell310@aol.com.

 
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Butterfly and Log Cabin Quilts

Nov 22 2007

Butterfly quilt

Butterfly quilt

Barbara Foster is searching for two quilts made by her great-grandmother. These quilts were last seen on November 9, 2007 at South Medford, Oregon. They were being brought to the dry cleaner, but they were accidentally dropped off at the Goodwill store.

One is an all-over pattern featuring butterflies. It is double or queen size, and mainly dusty rose/mauve. It was machine pieced and yarn tied in 1977.

Log Cabin quilt

Log Cabin quilt

The second quilt is a king size Log Cabin quilt. It is made of greens and off-white calicos. It was made in 1991.

Barbara is offering a reward for the return of these two quilts. Please contact Barbara at fosters@ccountry.net.

 
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Pink Grapes

Sep 12 2007

Joan Godfrey is searching for a quilt made by her mother, Daisy Fillenwarth Higdon. It is a double bed sized quilt made before the 1940′s. It has over 1,000 hand appliqued pink grapes, each about the size of a nickel, along with green leaves and vines on a white background. All of the fabrics are solid colors. It is hand quilted closely with a 1″ grid. The quilt may be signed in embroidery, “Daisy Fillenwarth” and the year.

The quilt was last seen in Weslaco, Texas when her mom and dad moved out of their trailer in Snow to Sun Park and they may have left it behind. This quilt was her mother’s first quilt.

If you’ve seen a quilt that fits this description, please contact Joan at stichnRN@aol.com.

 
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Tim’s Quilt

Aug 17 2007

“Tim’s Quilt” was made by Jane B. Shea for Timothy M. Shea in 1999. It is double bed size. The blocks are made from T-shirts from around the world. The central block has the name, “Tim.” It is machine pieced and tied, not quilted. This quilt was last seen in Mount Dora, Florida in 2002. It was in the trunk of a car that was stolen.

If you find this quilt, please contact Jane through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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Friendship Signature Quilt

May 10 2007

Sometime around 1955-1957, Martha Bargo and her husband were given a Friendship Signature Quilt. This quilt was last seen in February 1985 when it was used to cover furniture during a move.

Martha writes, “This is a sentimental quilt. It was made by women in the community where my husband had his first pastorate. Money was pinned to the quilt, a wedding gift to a young bride and groom.”

< p>This quilt is double bed size, made in dark green and red with white writing. Friends gave a dollar to have their names embroidered on the quilt.

Please contact Martha through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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