A $500 reward was offered for the return of Amy’s Quilt, made by Kathryn Henry. The quilt had been sent via a shipping company on December 16, 2003. It was left by the shipping company on Erin Brisben’s porch in Clackamas, Oregon on December 22, 2003 where it was stolen after the shipping company left it. A police report was filed. In February 2004, after five weeks of being missing, the quilt was turned in to the Sheriff’s Office for the reward money.

Amy’s sister Erin and Erin’s housemate spent considerable time and effort posting reward fliers, which apparently enticed the thief to return the quilt. As an added bonus, in the midst of looking for this missing quilt, another log cabin quilt made for another Amy was recovered!

Kathryn writes, “I cried and cried over the theft of the quilt, then cried again when it was recovered. I had started writing a book about the quilt, worked on it for the five weeks that the quilt was missing, and now intend to go ahead and finish it. The real-life ending turned out to be happier than the one I was imagining in my fiction.” Kathryn also highly praised the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department for their help in the recovery.

The quilt was made by Kathryn Henry for Amy Brisben. It features a house and building blocks with log cabin blocks and a blue/tan sawtooth border. It is about 80″ square. The center of the quilt includes the words “for Amy” machine quilted into it. Several of the houses have dogs and cats in the windows. The log cabin blocks include many fabrics with dogs, cats, birds and butterflies. It is machine pieced and machine quilted.