Dawn Austin is looking for a crib quilt that her youngest child threw in the trash without her knowledge. Her other son is crushed.
The quilt has a beige background and in the center was a brown bear riding a rocking horse. It has medium deep blue accents and small maroon bears. The quilt was purchased about 10 years ago and it is a commercial pattern.
Please contact Dawn at MIKKOMOGOO@aol.com if you can help her recover this quilt.
Jean is searching for a baby quilt which she recently made for her grandson, Blake. Her daughter was on vacation in South Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina during the week of July 20, 2000 when the quilt was lost.
The quilt is a pieced Ohio Star Pattern. The stars are pieced in reds, oranges, and yellows. The 6-inch blocks are straight set without sashing. There are a total of 30 blocks, six down and five across. The background in pieced in blues and purples. The outside border is made with the same fabrics as the blocks and the binding is dark blue with tiny, faint, white stars. The backing is a colorful teddy bear print in reds, oranges and yellows. The label is hand-sewn on the lower left corner and is made from the teddy bear fabric. It reads: Blake’s First Quilt Love Grammy
If you have found this quilt, please contact jean at ctsmoot1@aol.com.
Tallman Family Quilt
Barbara Heine is searching for her great-great grandmothers quilt that was auctioned off.
It was auctioned on June 19, 1993 by Julia-Poulin Antiques in Fairfield, Maine. It was from the estate of James Smith of Showhegan, Maine. It was either purchased by a Margaret Smith of North Anson, Maine or a man from Portland, Maine. It is possible that one of them owns an antique store.
The quilt has bright red sashing with pink, gold, and black or brown. The quilt bears the names of the Tallman children, signed in black ink in the center of random squares. Not all of the squares are signed. Signatures would include Elizabeth, Henrietta, Tunis, Ambrose, Samuel, Rosa and Ulysses. The quilt was made around 1847. Barbara believes the quilt was made by Elizabeths mother (Barbaras great-great grandmother), but she doesnt have her name yet.
Barbara and other family members are doing what they can to find this quilt. If you have any information regarding this quilt, please contact Barbara Heine at kbhine@aol.com.
Baby Bears by Joan Gorrill
Another quilt has been stolen while it was on display at a quilt store. Joan Gorrill made this Baby Bears and Stars quilt. It was stolen from the Satin Moon Quilt Store in Victoria, Canada on May 5, 2000.
The quilt is 39″ by 45″ and has an extensive amount of expert hand quilting.
If you have any information about the whereabouts of this quilt, please contact the Satin Moon Quilt Shop at shop@satin-moon.com.
Daniel's Baby Quilt by Bonnie Comar
Bonnie Comar made this quilt for her grandsons first birthday. It is her own original variation of the Bear Paw block.
The quilt is made of two 12-inch blocks with gold and white paws and two 12-inch blocks with gold and red paws. The center square has a teddy bear on a rocking horse which was painted, embroidered and appliqud. The background is navy blue. The borders are red and blue stripes with nine patch blocks at the intersections. The quilt is bound with gold binding. The quilt was labeled “Daniel Timothy Comar” and “Love Grandma.” These were embroidered on the back along with “Colorado” and his birthday, “March 12, 1993.”
Daniels baby quilt had been placed in a storage unit called U Store It in Linden, New Jersey. When the rent was not paid on the storage unit, the contents were sold at auction. There was also a Christmas tree wall quilt about 20″ by 20″ with buttons, but Bonnie really wants to find Daniels quilt.
If you have seen a quilt that fits this description, please contact Bonnie through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page
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Anne Copeland has reported the loss of several antique quilts. All of the quilts listed below were stolen from Annes home in Lomita, California. Unfortunately, Anne does not have photographs of these quilts and quilt tops.
Several other items (Raggedy Ann and Andys) were also stolen at the same time, but Anne realizes they would be very difficult to trace.
These quilts were part of a lecture series about quilts. Any information leading to their recovery will be greatly appreciated. Please contact Anne Copeland through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Graduation Quilt by Cindy Hagat
Cindy Hagat of Jacksonville, Florida made a special graduation quilt for her daughter when she graduated from high school in 1998. After she graduated, Erin became a student at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. Her quilt was stolen out of her storage unit during her summer break in 1999.
This was the first quilt Cindy ever made. The quilt is slightly larger than a lap quilt. She used nine large pinwheel blocks. Fabrics used in the quilt include: White fabric with graduation hats, tan fabric with teddy bears, black fabric with musical notes, red bandana fabric
The backing is solid black. There was a label on the back side with her daughters name, Erin Hagat, and the graduation date.
Please contact Cindy Hagat at cwhagat@msn.net if you have any information about this quilt.
Graduation Quilt, fabrics used
Shauna is looking for her five year old daughter’s baby blanket. It was misplaced during a trip to Seattle as they were getting off the ferry. Her daughter was two at the time.
The baby blanket had six printed teddy bear and bunny blocks framed with fuchsia strips. The backing was pink plaid. It was quilted on the bunny and bear blocks and also tied.
Shauna says of her daughter, “She still talks about it and would love to have it back.”
If you can help this little girl find her baby blankie, please contact Shauna at shaunas@adninternet.com.
Round Robin Quilt by Wendy Smith-Clark
The photo above shows a progressive quilt in the very early stages. The large block is the theme block and, at this point, it had traveled only to two other people.
Wendy Smith-Clark was part of a group of seventeen women who were participating in a Round The Block Progressive quilt. Each quilt was to be passed twelve times, so not everyone worked on every quilt. Each quilter made a theme block and mailed it on to the next person on the list who added accent and filler blocks and mailed it on to the next person and so on. The participants were from all over the world. Wendys quilt traveled to Port Alberni, BC Canada; Mount Shasta, California; Bellevue, Washington; Auburn, Alabama; Seattle, Washington; Williams Lake, BC Canada; Woodstock, Virginia; Bellevue, Nebraska; Huntington Beach, California; The Netherlands; and France; and was supposed to be mailed back to her. Instead, the participant from France mailed it to another Wendy who was in the group of seventeen, but beyond Wendy’s group of twelve people, so she would not have worked on Wendy’s quilt. The second Wendy was contacted repeatedly, but she said she did not have the quilt. The participant in France said she mailed the package and she was insulted when Wendy asked her to trace it.
“So,” Wendy writes, “I have no idea what happened to my quilt. Whether it was lost in the mail or lost at someone’s home. I did have my name, address, email and phone number inked on everything in my box: on the back of the flannel which we attached our blocks, on the back of my theme block, on my bag of fabric, on my journal, my disposable camera and on everything else in the box. So even if it had gotten separated — pieces still could get returned to me. My theme block was a Piecemaker’s Calendar block from a few years back. It was all hand appliqud and embellished. It was a sewing basket with notions and a cat next to it. I was so proud of it. The swap began in May of 1996 and my quilt was missing in Spring of 1997I keep hoping that somehow some day it will find it’s way home to me.”
Wendy also shared, “I have lost 3 quilt related packages over the last 4 to 5 years. And almost lost a fourth recently. The first was a set of 12 batik blocks from an AOL swap that never made it to Texas. I sent it regular first class mail. I had not insured it, did not ask for a receipt nor did I keep a record of it. I remade the blocks and mailed them priority mail and swallowed my loss. My most recent (almost) loss was a quilt top I had sent to Arizona to be quilted. She finished it and sent it back to me insured priority mail. She took it to her post office the morning of August 9th. I should have had it Monday or Tuesday at the latest. I called my post office daily the whole time. I checked with neighbors to see if it was mis-delivered. I took pictures of the quilt to my local post office and she took pics to hers in Arizona. It finally arrived after more than two weeks to get to me! Priority mail! Just before that quilt, I mailed a box of quilt blocks and other goodies to my friend in Virginia. It never arrived. Had some cash and a beanie baby bear in it. When I called my post office they told me to bring the insurance form in and file a claim. I had not insured it.”
Wendy has kindly shared some of what she has learned (the hard way) about swaps:
If you have any information regarding this round robin quilt, please contact Wendy at Wendyqlts@aol.com.
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