Katrina Jones hoped someone could help her recover two quilts that became missing during September 2015. She shipped them in a suitcase along with some personal items from Belfast, UK to Colorado and the suitcase went missing during transit on September 12.
On November 8, 2015, Katrina reported that the missing quilts have been recovered! Katrina writes, “I recommend that anyone with a lost case contacts the shippers every day until they finally are told where the case first disappeared, then find the numbers for the warehouse hubs it was between, then call those hubs directly. We were told that they’d searched their warehouses worldwide for it, but when we called the hub it had been on its way to when it vanished, the girl there said, ‘No one’s asked me to look. I’ll go check right now.’ She found it in a matter of minutes.”
“Dragon Star” was made by Delphine Miller. It is queen size, and the main colors are blue and green batiks. This quilt was made using Judy Niemeyer’s “Dragon Star” pattern. The quilting motif around the border and in the big white patches has a heart pattern. This quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted. It has a label on the back corner that says something like, “Made for the wedding of Andrew Jones and Katrina Miller by her mother Delphine Miller.”
The second missing quilt is called “Red, White, and Sometimes Blue.” It is throw size, and is made mostly with a Moda line of fabric that features roses. The back is pieced of dark blue with light tan roses and dark blue with small tan stars.
