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Basket Quilt

May 18 2006

Basket Quilt

Basket Quilt

Noemi Flores and Domingo Borrero need your help finding a basket quilt that disappeared while being shipped through a shipping company. This quilt was last seen during December 2005 in Massena, New York. It was being shipped to Artesia, New Mexico. When Noemi received the package it was empty.

This quilt is wall hanging size. It is made using Eleanor Burns’s May Basket pattern. The main colors are green, creme, and red tones. It is machine pieced, machine quilted, and features silk ribbon embroidery. It was made in 2005 but does not have a label.

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

 
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Recovered! Ocean Waves

Apr 25 2006

Ocean Waves by Mickie Swall

Ocean Waves by Mickie Swall

Mickie Swall needed help recovering this Ocean Waves quilt. The quilt was sent from Monroe Center, Illinois to Henderson, Nevada on April 5, 2006. It should have arrived in two to three days, but it was not been delivered on time and the shipping company was unable to locate it. Two weeks later they finally received a notice of attempted delivery. On April 24, after nineteen days, they finally received their package.

This 74″ by 90″ quilt was designed by Joen Wolfrom, machine sewed by Mickie Swall, and machine quilted by Kelly Edwards. It is made of 8″ blocks set in eight rows of ten blocks with a 5″ wide mitered green border. The quilt was made during March and April 2006.

 
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For Claire Foster Limjoco

Mar 25 2006

For Claire Foster Limjoco by Kathy Limjoco

For Claire Foster Limjoco by Kathy Limjoco

On November 24, 2005 this quilt was lost at the Tundra Lodge Hotel in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was made for Claire Foster Limjoco by The Flying Needles Quilt Group.

This quilt was made from a traditional design called Southern Bell. It is a baby-sized quilt in peach, blue, purple and green. It has a cloud fabric and gold/yellow roses for the backing. It was machine pieced and machine quilted in 2003. There is a star-shaped label on the lower left of the back which says, “For Claire Foster Limjoco from the Flying Needles, Rose Steinbach, Karen Brischler, Juanita Peters, Kathryn Scheibmeier, and Sarah Hunger.”

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

 
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Kiss a Frog

Mar 25 2006

Kiss A Frog by Patricia L. Styring

Kiss A Frog by Patricia L. Styring

Patricia L. Styring needs help recovery her quilt which was lost by a shipping company. The quilt was last seen on February 7, 2006 in St. Augustine, Florida. The shipping company scanned the package onto its truck and no other scans have appeared since then.

Patricia’s quilt is 86″ by 85″. It is an original design. It is pieced, appliqued, and has extremely dense quilting in color. The main colors are red-orange, purple and yellow-green. The center section is made of four compass blocks surrounded by a large circle of applique vines with running frogs. The main fabric in the borders is a red with sitting frogs in pointed hats. The back of the quilt is composed of more larger frogs running and pots of pieced compass flowers. There is a label on the back which has Patricia’s name, the quilt’s name, and a printed frog with a crown on a white background.

This quilt won the Larged Pieced division at QuiltFest 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida. If you find this quilt, please contact Debby through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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European Patchwork Meeting

Mar 24 2006

These four quilts, shown below, were last seen in December 2005 in the town hall of Rosheim. During transport to the next place they were to be displayed, these quilts were stolen. One other quilt, Blue Waves, was also stolen at this same time.

Ghislaine Berlier Garcia’s quilt, Encastrement Musical, is 20″ by 53″ (50 x 135 cm). The main colors are black, white, red, green, yellow and blue. It was made in 2005 and it has a label on the back corner.

Marga Barrio Solorzano created this original quilt, Radicis, with cotton and silk fabrics in 2005. It is 39″ by 42″ (99 x 107 cm). The main colors are black, white and blue. It has a label hand appliqued to the lower right corner of the back.

Jazzpote is an original design by Catherine Lombardi. It is 25″ by 33 ” (63.5 x 83.5 cm). There is a label in the lower right corner of the back of this quilt.

Anna Muze made Morning Bells in 2005. The original design is 107″ by 63″ (275 x 162 cm). Anna used cotton, silk and velvets in her quilt. It is also labeled on the back.

If you have any information which could lead to the recovery of these quilts, please contact the owners through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

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Peaceful Garden

Mar 22 2006

Stained Glass Garden Worship Centre Quilt

Stained Glass Garden Worship Centre Quilt

In 2003 a group of staff members at The Glebe Center in Ottawa, Canada came together to make this stained glass quilt. They modified a commercial pattern called Stained Glass Garden to create their quilt. Their quilt was displayed on the wall of the Worship Centre. On Monday, March 20, 2006 someone stood on the altar and stole the quilt that was intended to bring joy to the elderly residents.

This quilt is 60″ square. The main colors are pale blue, pink, yellow, violet, and green hand-dyed fabric. The names of all the participating quilters are embroidered on the label which is hand appliqued to the bottom left of the backing. The fabric was purchased from donations and made with love by staff members during their lunch breaks. A police report was filed.

If you have any information about the disappearance of this quilt, please contact Mary Pal at mpal@glebecentre.ca.

 
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Applique Dahlia

Mar 20 2006

During March 1988, Phyllis Barnett was moving from Richmond, Virginia to New Orleans, Louisianna. Bekins was packing and transporting her belongings. In the process, the movers lost the box with Phyllis’s Applique Dahlia quilt and her pots and pans.

< p>This twin size quilt was made by her mother from a pattern she found on the batting backage. The hand appliqued dahlias have pink centers and green print petals. The other blocks have purple leaves. Some alternate blocks are white. This quilt was made 1976-1977. It has a label embroidered in green that says, “pwp ’77.”

If anyone sees this quilt, please contact Phyllis through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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Recovered! Charlie’s Bears

Feb 17 2006

Mary Kay O’Brien was looking for a baby quilt made for Charlie Huhn. It was sent from Grand Chute (Appleton), Wisconsin to Puyallup, Washington on December 27, 2005. The package never arrived. Finally, after nearly two months, the package was suddenly delivered with no explanation.

This quilt is about 38″ by 48″. It was made by six members of the extended Huhn family. Each member made a counted cross stitch teddy bear. The teddy bear blocks were all set on point. Light green and blue flannel were also used. There is a label, hand-appliqued to the back of the quilt on the lower right corner. It includes the names of the women who made the quilt: Marie Huhn, Clare Huhn, Jane Kessel, Ellen Kessel, Mary Kay O’Brien, Kelly O’Brien.

 
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Our New House Bedroom Quilt

Feb 14 2006

Our New House Bedroom Quilt by Alicia Paulson

Our New House Bedroom Quilt by Alicia Paulson

Alicia Paulson is looking for a quilt that she last saw during September 2000. It was on the Coast Starlight Amtrak train leaving Portland, Oregon and was left in the sleeping car. It was never returned despite her efforts to recover it. This quilt is very special to Alicia because it was made after a bad accident and celebrates the recovery trip.

This queen size quilt is an original design. The patchwork is made of red and green rectangles and the quilt has an olive green ruffle with ribbon trim. The top and bottom were sewn together, but it wasn’t quilted yet.

Please contact Alicia through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if you find this quilt.

 
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Blue Mariner’s Compass

Feb 14 2006

Mariner's Compass by Jane Ivanick

Mariner's Compass by Jane Ivanick

On November 23, 2005 this Blue Mariner’s Compass was stolen from a vehicle that was in a car accident. Nick and Kristen Ivanick were going home for Thanksgiving when the accident occurred on Route 14 in Northern Pennsylvania, just outside of Gillett. The car was left overnight on the side of the road. When they returned, less than eight hours later, the quilt was gone, but nothing else was taken.

This hand-pieced, hand-quilted quilt is queen/king size. It has a blue background. The quilt also uses green, light blue, and yellow fabrics. It is labeled, “Hand stitched with love by Jane Ivanick for Nate Ivanick and Kristen Pomponio in 2004.” The label is on one of the corners on the back of the quilt.

If you have any information about this quilt, please contact Nick at nivanick@hotmail.com.

 
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