Crystal Helgeson would like to retreive a Susy Sunbonnet quilt which her mother made. The unfinished quilt was placed in storage in Rialto, California. It was last seen in 1998 when the contents of the storage unit were sold.
This is a full-size quilt. The blocks have a white background and different fabrics are used for the dresses and hats. It was made in 1995. but does not have a label.
Please contact Crystal at C.Helgeson@hotmail.com if you find this quilt.
Tom and Christy Flanigan are heartsick over the loss of a blue and white sampler made by Tom. Tom was returning the queen size quilt to his twin sister in Hopkinsville, Kentucky during August 2006, but he accidentally sent it to the wrong address. Now the package cannot be found. Christy writes, “…he has almost entirely quit sewing. I miss my quilting partner and would love to find this quilt for him.”
If you find this quilt, please contact Christy at kistriself@kc.rr.com. <
Carrie Trettel Zizza hopes to recover three flower quilts made by her grandmother, Olive Trettel. She believes they were appliqued with tulips or flowers on a white background, and they were probably hand quilted. The quilts were probably made in the late 1960′s or early 70′s. These quilts were last seen on Clopper Avenue in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Her parents had been going through a messy divorce, so she didn’t have much contact with her grandmother after they divorced. After her grandparents died, she was told that her grandparent’s friend named Vi with an Italian-sounding last name took the quilts. Vi’s husband had bought the house they were living in. Carrie believes their children may still have the quilts.
When Carrie was only ten, her grandmother had told her and her two sisters that the quilts were for them after she died. From what Carrie can remember, the one for her was a tulip or flower applique. One of the others may have been a whole cloth quilt.
If you know anything about these quilts, please contact Carrie through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Yellow Double Wedding Ring by Susan Wiederhold
Susan Wiederhold is hoping to recover a yellow wedding ring quilt. It was last seen in April 1990 in The Storage Barn in League City, Texas. Through a series of misfortunes and misunderstandings, the contents of the storage facility were sold at auction without notifications.
This quilt was made by Bonnie Sessums and is owned by Susan Wiederhold. It is a full-size, traditional wedding ring quilt. The rings are set on a white background. The diamonds where the rings intersect are yellow, and the backing is yellow. The rings also have a distinctive black and white gingham. This double wedding ring quilt has straight, not scallopped edges. It is hand pieced and quilted. There are several squares in each ring that are a black and white gingham fabric that is deteriorating. It was a wedding gift in 1981.
If you know where this quilt might be, please contact Susan through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
A.T. Quilt
Elisabeth Elmquist is hoping to recover a quilt she made for her daughter’s tenth birthday. It was last seen in June 2001 in France at the International School of Sophia Antipolis.
The sampler quilt was made in 1993. One of the blocks uses her daughter’s initials, “AT.” It also features the year made and Elisabeth’s initials “EAE.” The fifteen blocks have green borders and the quilt is bordered with a yellow fabric with pink flowers. The binding is brown with pink flowers and white bows. Matching fabrics were used as the rabbits and hearts that are in the house block. The quilt is 148 by 210 cm. The main colors are yellow, green, brown, and terracotta/rust. It is labeled with permanent marker in the corner with Elisabeth’s name, the year, and two address, one Belgium and one Denmark.
Please contact Elisabeth through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if you find this quilt.
A.T. Quilt, fabrics used
Elizabeth Glass hopes to recover a quilt she made for her nephew, Patrick O’Daniel. It was stolen from an army barracks in East Texas. It was last seen in November 2005. Patrick was moving out of the barracks, and when they got back for the final load, the quilt and some CDs were missing.
The 52″ by 58″ quilt is an Arabic Lattice in a lightening bolt pattern. The main colors are a variety of black and red fabrics. The four-patch blocks in the center are a combination of reds, blacks and tans. It has a piano key border. It is bound in black. One distinctive fabric used in the triangles is a black and white print of zebras, and some of the zebras have red manes. The quilt was made in 2002 for Patrick’s high school graduation. It has a label on the lower right corner with either her name or “Aunt Beth,” Tucson, Arizona, and the date.
Please contact Elizabeth at Quilthorse@att.net.
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.
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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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.
Lily Winograd is searching for a Cat Quilt that has been missing since 1994. She believes it was stolen from her home in Hillsdale, New Jersey. It is a yellow and white baby quilt with brown cats on every other patch. She thinks her parents got it from a Pennsylvania Dutch store.
If you see a quilt that fits this description, please contact Lily at lily.winograd@hotmail.com.
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