Thomas's Quilt by Rachel May
Rachel May is grieving the loss of two baby quilts. The quilts disappeared during the Mays move from Manhattan, Kansas to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on June 4, 1999. Their boxes arrived at their new home on June 18, 1999.
Rachel says, “When moving this June, several boxes of ours were stolen, probably by workers at the moving company. One box contained two quilts just made for my identical twins sons who were born in April. The quilts are the same but one is in bright red and one in deep red. They have 4 rows each with 4 sail boats across divided by a red/deep red border. There is also a border around the whole quilt. On the back are fabric tabs with the boys names and birth date, the name of the quilt and the name of the quilter. I do not care about anything else we lost in the move. I would love to have these quilts back in any condition, no questions asked.”
Both quilts are approximately 60″ by 36″. The quilts were custom made by Julie Jacobson and Rachel said she only photographed the baby quilts because Julie requested pictures. She would never have thought about taking photos otherwise, and now she is glad she has them. The quilts are machine pieced and machine quilted.
The quilt shown above with the bright red sashing is labeled: Thomas Michael May 4/14/99 “Sailing Away” Julie Jacobson
Anthony's Quilt by Rachel May
The quilt shown below with dark red sashing is labeled: Anthony Vincent May 4/14/99 “Lets Go Sailing” Julie Jacobson
The labels were stitched on after the quilting was completed, it is possible they could be removed. The quilts were made in Balboa, California and that information may also be on the labels.
One other quilt was lost at the same time. Rachel does not have a photo of this quilt, but it is a log cabin design about the same size as the baby quilts and it uses a loud blue and red Hawaiian print.
If you have any information on these two beautiful baby quilts, please contact Rachel at rachel.baer.may@us.army.mil.
