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Alphabet Quilt

Feb 02 2001

This quilt has a white background and each square is a letter of the alphabet. Next to each letter is an applique of an item that begins with that letter. For instance, “A&quot had an apple and “Z” had a zebra. In addition, each square had a small label where the quilter embroidered or sewed her name and possibly the date. If there are dates, they would be from 1949. This quilt was made by her grandmother’s quilting club for the owner before she was born.

It is not clear if the quilt was lost or stolen. Her parents simply said it disappeared during a move. If you know of a quilt that fits this description, please contact the owner at upaulette@email.msn.com

 
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Scrappy Nine Patch

Aug 17 2000

Fabric used

Fabric used

Kate Holestine is looking for a quilt that is very near and dear to her heart. It was the first quilt she made on her own with her grandmothers assistance.

It is a fairly simple scrappy nine-patch made from fabrics from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s combined with white muslin. It is twin size and tied, not quilted. The blocks were put together with a dark green print, shown above, that features a diamond-shaped dimensional design. This fabric is dark green with black lines and bright colors.

The quilt was left in or taken out of a motel room in Montana or Idaho in sometime in the first two weeks of November of 1985 or 1986 while she was traveling with her high school volleyball team to a state tournament.

Naturally, she was heartbroken when she couldnt find her quilt. The fabrics used were scraps left from dresses she had when she was a child as well as dresses from her mother and aunts and shirts from her brother, father, uncles and grandfather. It is truly a family keepsake.

If you know of a quilt that fits this description, please contact Catherine Holestine at kateh@bbcc.ctc.edu.

 
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Harriet Carpenter Quilt

Aug 17 2000

Harriet Carpenter Quilt

Harriet Carpenter Quilt

Mary Jo Scott is searching for her great-great-grandmothers quilt which was sold at the Womans Club Thrift Shop in State College, Pennsylvania around 1972.

The quilt is supposed to be a flag pattern, having one very large American flag on it with a blue background. It may be similar to the pictures to the right. The quilting is superb and it has ornate embroidery saying “Made and presented to JCH by Grandma Carpenter” and the date. The date is probably between 1895 and 1900.

Mary Jo says, “The most important clue I have about the missing quilt is that I am sure it will have the beautiful embroidery with initials JCH. It is possible that it is not the flag pattern. My cousin who saw it as a child thinks it was a flag.”

This quilt is believed to be the twin to the one above. It is featured in Patricia Herrs new book, “Quilting Traditions.” Mary Jo owns this quilt. She was told about the missing quilt by her 82-year-old cousin who described it to her. She knows that her great-great grandmother did make duplicates of some of her other non-traditional patterns. About twenty heirloom quilts by this woman have been documented, and most are different patterns.

If you know of a quilt that meets this description, please contact Mary Jo Scott at LRSMJS3450@aol.com.

 
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Firebird Round Robin

Jul 14 2000

Firebird by Kathleen Grover

Firebird by Kathleen Grover

Kathleen Grover participated in a round robin during 1996. Each participant chose a ballet theme for her quilt and Kathleen chose Firebird.

Two participants in the round robin group never received their quilt back and apparently both were kept by the same person. Multiple emails and letters were sent in an attempt to recover this quilt, but she never responded.

The main “block” which Kathleen did was that of a bird rising above the flames. The bird was made of red marbleized fabric with edges and detailing in gold thread. The background was hand dyed purple streaky fabric. The original sketch and scraps of fabric that she used are shown to the right.

Along with the quilt top was a disposable camera, about $150 worth of fabric to be used by the other participants, and a tape of the musical score to Firebird.

The quilt was last sent to Washington DC / Maryland metropolitan area.

Kathleen says, “It is really awful when something like this happens to you — I had dutifully worked on HER quilt top, which she received. This has made me very leery of getting into these round robin things…A note on the quality of the workmanship — some of the same group of women did a round robin with an Opera theme, and an article was published on them in the AQS magazine.”

If you have any information on a quilt with a block that fits the description of this Firebird, please contact Kathleen at rgrover@austin.rr.com.

 
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Graduation Quilt

Feb 03 2000

Graduation Quilt by Cindy Hagat

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

Graduation Quilt, fabrics used

 
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Attila’s Laundry

Jan 26 2000

Attila's Laundry by Linda Colsh

Attila's Laundry by Linda Colsh

Attila’s Laundry by Linda Colsh was made to enter into the Pointillist Challenge.

On June 24, 1996 Linda took this quilt, another in-progress quilt, and her sewing kit to a shipping company to be boxed, insured, and sent it to herself at her new address. She was moving from California to Belgium. Linda was afraid to put her quilts in her luggage or in the shipment of their household goods via the Panama Canal (because mildew was a threat during the months at sea). Linda had planned to take the quilts in her carry-on luggage, but she was limited to only one bag for the international flight. Unfortunately, the quilts were never seen again after she dropped them off with the shipper.

Half of the fabrics in Attilas Laundry are from the Pointillist collection. The techniques Linda used were machine piecing, machine inlay, machine quilting with silver thread, and machine couching. The back is also pieced and has a photo transfer of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and a computer printed label sewn on with “Attilas Laundry”, Linda’s name and her two addresses (local Belgian address and APO address) and the year it was made, 1996.

Attila’s Laundry is a quilt about a Turk and his country. Turkey holds a unique position because it not only physically bridges the Easter and Western worlds but, as a secular Moslem country, it also bridges East and West philosophically and socially. Linda writes, “Our guide and guard for the trip, Attila, was the very example of this position: he was carrying out a good deal of womens work at home with his wife ready to deliver their first child. I was quite impressed to see such gender crossover in a Moslem society. Turkey is a very delicate diplomatic relationship for the US; indeed its place in the politics of the Middle East and Europe is very pivotal. My quilt is an attempt to capture the uniqueness of an individual, a situation, a city and a country.”

The loss was reported to the police, the US Postal Service, the Military Postal system, and local quilt guilds, but no information has been revealed. If you have seen this quilt, please contact Linda at LovellColsh@compuserve.com.

 
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The Original Millennium Quilt

Oct 30 1999

Millennium Quilt by Deb Freeseman

Millennium Quilt by Deb Freeseman

The Original Millennium Quilt, designed and made by Deb Freesemann, owner of design studio Sew Dear. This quilt was introduced at the International Quilt Market in Providence in Spring 1999. In March 1999 this quilt was shipped from Waverly, Louisiana to Center Harbor, New Hampshire to be photographed for the Keepsake Quilting catalog, but it was lost by a shipping company during shipment. The quilt was last scanned in Chicago, Illinois.

The quilt uses 2000 different fabrics. Deb made it using from four generations of her familys fabrics. It is approximately 50″ by 50″. The squares are finished 1″. The border is made of four different black on black prints. It is machine quilted with gold metallic thread on the center gold diamond and on the gold inner border.

The label has a photo transfer of the cover of the pattern she designed and markets. It has her company name, Sew Dear, on it. There are also four different “fabric cut-out women” joined together with hearts. Each of these are cut from four generations of fabrics with a name under each cut-out: Hermina Homister, Hilda Gabe, Martha Drape, and Deb Freesemann.

Deb says, “This quilt is very dear to me since it’s an original design for which I’m marketing a pattern, but more importantly it is a reflection of the inner connections between my family’s generations. I would love to have it returned….no questions asked.”

If you have any information regarding this quilt, please contact Deb at DFeeseman@aol.com.

 
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Twin Baby Quilts

Sep 18 1999

Thomas's Quilt by Rachel May

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

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.

 
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