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Road to Saint Louis Quilt Top

Jun 22 2001

Road to Saint Louis

Road to Saint Louis

Jani Williams is searching for a machine pieced quilt top made by the Nebraska Quilt Guild in 1998. They used Trudie Hughes’ “Road to Saint Louis” quilt block with nine patch corners. The top is made in turquoise, rust and brown fabrics.

In June 1999, the unquilted top was placed in a wardrobe box with its label (not yet attached) and the fabric for the backing. The wardrobe box, which also contained women’s clothing, was placed in a Wheaton Van Lines moving van in Lincoln, Nebraska, but it never arrived in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The rest of the contents of the truck went to Camp Verde, Arizona, but they were unable to locate Jani’s box.

If you can help Jani, please contact her at muddie1880@npgcable.com.

“Road to Saint Louis” quilt pattern is copyright ©1989 Trudie Hughes and is reprinted with permission. Pattern may be found in her book “Even More”, published by That Patchwork Place, Inc. Please visit Trudie’s websites at http://www.patchedworks.com/ and http://www.trudiehughes.com/.

 
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Victorian Crazy Quilt

Apr 06 2001

For twenty years Kim Thompson has been searching for a Victorian Crazy Quilt that was made for her by her grandmother, Mrs. William R. Ballard, and Kim’s great aunts. Kim still vividly remembers them working on this quilt. “They faithfully observed afternoon tea, and I can picture every detail of the three of them gathered around this quilt softly talking and stitching, their dainty teacups nearby. As you can see, time has not diminished my desire to recover this precious quilt.” Unfortunately, this quilt was stolen from her home in Brush Creek, Fairview, North Carolina along with other antiques while they were moving from one house to another.

The quilt is larger than a twin size, but smaller than a double. It is made with pieces of her grandmother’s and great-aunts’ favorite dresses. The main colors are blues and browns and it has a brown satin backing. The quilt is hand-pieced and hand-quilted and has intricate embroidery stitching in the piecing. The quilt was pieced around 1950 and in 1980 when it was stolen some of the pieces were frayed.

Kim says, “Even though it has been so long, I am grateful for the chance to list this quilt as it continues to be the most dear legacy from my grandmother. . . I have never given up hope that one day I might find it again.”

Can you help Kim recover this precious keepsake? Please contact her at lkbt94@aol.com.

 
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Friendship Blocks Quilt

Apr 06 2001

Friendship Irish Chain by Judy Calvert

Friendship Irish Chain by Judy Calvert

The binding wasn’t even completely on when this Irish Chain Friendship Block quilt was lost and stolen. Judy Calvert was still in the process of finishing up the hand sewing on her light brown and deep red quilt. On March 9, 2001 it apparently fell off the cart in the hallway of the Embassy Suites hotel in Southcenter (Seattle), Washington. Unfortunately it was never found and it was not turned into the hotel’s lost and found.

This king-size quilt has about seventy-five 4-1/2″, multicolor, friendship blocks which were made by dear friends. A single Irish Chain, shown to the left, surrounds each block which were set on point. Side squares were set straight. The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted. The binding had been sewn on one side but it was not completely hand finished when it was lost. The quilt did not have a label yet and Judy does not have a picture.

If you have found a quilt that fits this description, please contact Judy at sillygamma@kvalley.com.

 
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Bear and Rocking Horse Crib Quilt

Feb 02 2001

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.

 
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Old Woman in the Shoe Quilt

Jan 31 2001

Gail Surrena is asking for help is finding her baby quilt which has been missing for a long time. Her mother pieced the baby quilt and her great-grandmother quilted in in 1954. This treasured quilt was used to bring both of her sons home from the hospital.

On September 12, 1980, when her youngest son was eight days old, her family and some friends went to the White County Fair in Searcy, Arkansas. The quilt was inadvertently set down along with a stuffed toy, and both disappeared.

The quilt is an applique of the Old Woman in The Shoe. It is trimmed in baby blue, which is worn from so many years of tender love. The edges are scalloped. The shoe is brown. The quilt also has a blood stain on it.

Gail adds, “I would love to have the quilt returned. No questions asked.”

If you can help Gail, please contact her at glsurrena@gci.net.

 
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Tallman Family Quilt

Aug 17 2000

Tallman Family Quilt

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.

 
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Antique Quilts Disappear

Feb 15 2000

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.

  1. Unique Double Wedding Ring Quilt, machine quilted with long-arm quilt machine in a stippling pattern. Double bed size (approx. very light lavender (the almost turn-of-the-century lavender, not the 1930s lavender) with brown, black and dark color stripe and check rings. The quilt was probably made during the first quarter of the 20th century. This quilt is odd looking, as if it were made by convicts, and has self binding, and a loose muslin backing.
  2. Crazy quilt top, large with dark color velvets and some corduroys and wool. There is a large circle in the center divided into four pieces, each in a different dark color. Moderate amount of embroidery with simple styles such as feather stitching, herringbone. Probably made in the 1970s. Very attractive piece and edges were raw (not finished) when it was stolen. NOT foundation-pieced.
  3. Friendship sampler type cotton quilt top and back, approximately double or full bed size. Greens, browns, and other earthy prints in woodsy motifs. Blocks are set on point with a brown on brown cotton check in between and in outer setting triangle blocks. Inner border (green) with outer double cream or beige print outer border. Backing is same brown on brown cotton check with butterfly block and another block on the back.
  4. 1930s Orange cotton quilt top (very bright pumpkin or bittersweet orange) in full bed size with arrow-like shapes approx. 2-1/2″ wide between blocks in multiple pieced prints of browns, blues, and other darker prints. Unsure of pattern name (not any variation of Flying Geese).
  5. 1870s log cabin remnant in light colors (was found inside another quilt), with name of a person in the corner and 8 (possibly made by 8-year-old child). Double pinks, and many fine fabrics that are in very poor condition, Was probably a small bed size. All cotton with possible satin or ribbon strips in some places.
  6. Mink teddy bear won in nationwide word competition around 1986 or 87. Dark brown mink about 8″. Made from recycled fur.

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.

 
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Heron in the Harbor

Dec 13 1999

Heron in the Harbor by Susan Hinzman

Heron in the Harbor by Susan Hinzman

Quilters in the Washington, DC area were invited to participate in a challenge quilt event for The Childrens Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Bethesda, Maryland. Susan Hinzman decided to enter a quilt which would be donated to Childrens Inn and be permanently placed in the residence rooms where families can remain with their seriously ill children during medical treatment.

The quilts were due on November 1, 1999. First, all of the entries were transported to a photographer and then they were sent back to Childrens Inn. A two month exhibit of these quilts was planned at the NIH Clinical Center, opening on December 5, 1999. The quilt volunteer coordinator and the Childrens Inn operations manager called Susan Hinzman on December 3 to inform her that her quilt, Heron in the Harbor, was missing. Another quilt by a different quilter also disappeared.

Susan Hinzmans quilt is 33″ square and has a hand inked label with her name, address, the name of the quilt, and the reason the quilt was made for the NIH. This label was hand stitched on, so it is possible that it could have been removed. However, Susan almost always adds a fox somewhere on her quilt. You can see a small brown fox in the lower left corner of this quilt.

These quilts were donated, so this quilt actually belongs to the Childrens Inn.

If you know anything about where this quilt is, please contact Susan at SEHinzman@aol.com or Margo Bradford, Operations Manager of The Childrens Inn, at mhb@Box-M.nih.gov or 800-644-4660.

 
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Prized Crazy Quilt Thrown Away

Aug 30 1999

Dragonpatch writes, “I lost a crazy quilt many years ago. I don’t expect ever to see it again, but miracles can happen.

“At the time (October, 1985), I was living in the Village Square North Apartments in Laurel, Maryland. I had just bought my tiny first home, and some friends were helping me move my few personal effects from the apartment.

“I was an absolute fool–I put my prized crazy quilt, which had taken me 4 years to embroider and assemble, in a brown plastic garbage bag. I brought that bag plus many other items out to the apartment parking lot, where my friends were loading items into a truck to take to the new home.

“When I went through the items that made it to the new place, the quilt bag wasn’t there. One of my friends said he had left a few bags in the parking lot–thinking they were trash! So, we returned in a panic to the apartment parking lot. Although only a few hours had passed, the bags were gone.

“I searched, knocked, asked around, etc. but no trace of my quilt ever turned up.

“It is a queen-sized bedspread, that hangs down on all sides of the bed. It is mostly silks and velvets, with many antique fabrics that are probably showing wear by now. There are numerous blocks with large “illustrations,” embroidered pictures of a young woman, a young man, a scene with mountains and sunrise, a dragon, cats, flowers (especially a yellow day lily), birds, and many other things. Most of these pictures have embroidered dates ranging from 1976 to 1978. Sadly, my memories of this quilt, once so bright, are fading after 14 years. I have no photographs of the quilt.

“If you have any information that might be about my crazy quilt, please let me know. I don’t use my real name on the web, but would reveal it to someone who knows about the quilt.”

If you have any information on a crazy quilt that fits this description, please contact Dragonpatch at Dragonpatch@erols.com.

 
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Quilt Show Tragedy

Aug 27 1999

On March 4, 1998, Pat Lemmons entered three quilts in a quilt show at the Heritage Center in Abilene, Kansas.

She delivered the quilts herself in two plastic bags and one brown sack with the top showing. She expected the show representatives to put them with the other quilts at that time, but they were painting and she was told to just set them down next to the desk in the office. The painter (who was the director of the show) promised he would get them put away after he cleaned up! She placed the brown bag in a larger plastic bag to protect it from paint. She even went back in after going to the car and questioned that he would take care of them.

Her friend went to the show on March 16 and discovered the quilts were not in the show. No one knows when they disappeared!!! When these quilts were entered in the show, the history of each quilt and Pat Lemmons’ name were on a computer print out attached to quilt. Each of these are family heirlooms and are irreplaceable.

Pat emphasizes, “All I can say is don’t leave them unless you see them take them to the storage where I was told there were others! It was my first show, and probably my last.”

Family Tree by Pat Lemmons

Family Tree by Pat Lemmons


Family Tree Quilt – 50th Anniversary Gift in 1979

All the blocks have white backgrounds and the designs were done with fabric crayons by family members, except for the top two center blocks which contain two black silhouettes with the names “Floyd” and “Nellie” in a red heart between. The dates of “1929″ and “1979″ are shown. Every block is signed and includes birth dates. The bottom right square is an outline of a child’s hand, colored with many colors and signed “KATHY”. The quilt is tied with black yarn and the back is a gold colored blanket.

Friendship Quilt by Pat Lemmons

Friendship Quilt by Pat Lemmons


Friendship Quilt

Except for the center left and bottom right block, the background of the blocks is ecru (light beige). There are 20 blocks. On the top, the second from the left is a tree with fourteen paper bags hanging in and three bags hanging below the tree. The bottom right block includes the embroidered words “381 Questers Pug Memories 4-H and PTA”. Each block is bordered with a multicolored fabric of mauve, sage green, brown and ecru. The back matches the border fabric. An ecru heart is stitched on the bottom right on the back of the quilt and signed by the quilters. This quilt is approximately 72″ by 65″.

Family Heirloom by Pat Lemmons

Family Heirloom by Pat Lemmons


Family Heirloom Quilt

This quilt is blue with white blocks and has hand embroidered bouquets tied with blue bows. The backing matches the blue used in the top and the binding has a point edge. The white blocks are old, made in the 1920′s. The blue fabric is new and the quilt is approximately 92″ long and 94″ wide.

Please help Pat find these three priceless family
heirlooms! If you have information about any of these three quilts, please contact Pat Lemmons at plemmons@ikansas.com or call her at 785-263-8143.

 
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