Log Cabin Top by Juliana Keen
On November 22, 2003, Julie accidentally left her Log Cabin Quilt Top at a garage sale in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now she needs our help to find it. It has twelve blocks made with purples, blues and pinks. A blue flannel fabric with stars is in the center of each block. This top was hand-pieced in 2003.
If you have seen this quilt top, please contact Julie through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
In a moment of “sheer madness,” Janine Mansell gave a quilt to a thrift store because her boyfriend didn’t like it. Now she would desperately like to retrieve it. The quilt was made by a family friend, possibly during the Depression, and was given to Janine’s mother, Nolene Mansell. Janine had it on a long-term loan. Janine brought this quilt to the St. Matthew’s Thrift Shop on Main Street in Ocean Park (Santa Monica), California in the late 1980′s.
This quilt is between a twin size and a full size quilt. It is made of men’s suiting fabric. The backing is red, white and blue check flannel. It is a heavy quilt and has a wool batt. It is machine pieced and tied with red thread. It has a red blanket stitch around the edges.
Janine plans on recreating the quilt and she had been collecting men’s suits for this purpose, but she still regrets giving away the original. She says, “It will be a beyond belief miracle if this quilt is able to come back to my family via this website.” If you can help make this miracle happen, please contact Janine at j9mansell.com.
Cigar Stacks by Patricia Rabe
In December 2000, Patricia Rabe shipped two Stack ‘N Whack quilts. The quilts were sent from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Mahwah, New Jersey. They were never delivered.
The first quilt, named Cigar Stacks, is 60″ by 60″. It has a gold background and the pinwheels were created using fabric printed with old cigar box logos. The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted and has a gold flannel backing.
Animals Go Wild by Patricia Rabe
The second quilt, named Animals Go Wild, is a 52″ by 72″ couch throw. It has an flowered, orange background with pinwheels of a bright animal and flower print. The quilt is also machine pieced and machine quilted. The photo to the left was taken before the printed borders were added.
Please contact Patricia if you have any information about these two quilts. You can contact her at quilterpatti@comcast.net.
Sarah Capdeville is searching for her stolen baby quilt. Seventeen years ago, her family was returning to the US after being stationed overseas and they waited at a New York airport. Sarah was too old to go into the airport nursery with her mother and baby sister, so her mom made a pallet on their shipping trunks, put Sarah down for a nap and covered her with a yellow whole-cloth quilt. When Sarah awoke, someone had stolen the quilt right off of her while she slept. They searched the immediate area and could not find the missing quilt.
The quilt was about 72″ square. It was a light yellow whole-cloth quilt and was bound with a satiny ribbon. The quilting was done in a simple diamond pattern. The backing was very soft, warm and fuzzy possibly flannel.
The quilt is very special to Sarah because it was made by her grandmother. Sarah says she would like to know more about this quilt, “If nothing more than to know where it wound up. I hope it has been used to bring love and warmth to another child.”
Please contact Sarah Capdeville at jcapdeville@earthlink.net if you have any leads on this quilt.
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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