Prized Crazy Quilt Thrown Away
�Dragonpatch� writes, "I lost a crazy quilt many years ago. I don't expect ever to see it again, but miracles can happen.
"At the time (October, 1985), I was living in the Village Square North Apartments in Laurel, Maryland. I had just bought my tiny first home, and some friends were helping me move my few personal effects from the apartment.
"I was an absolute fool--I put my prized crazy quilt, which had taken me 4 years to embroider and assemble, in a brown plastic garbage bag. I brought that bag plus many other items out to the apartment parking lot, where my friends were loading items into a truck to take to the new home.
"When I went through the items that made it to the new place, the quilt bag wasn't there. One of my friends said he had left a few bags in the parking lot--thinking they were trash! So, we returned in a panic to the apartment parking lot. Although only a few hours had passed, the bags were gone.
"I searched, knocked, asked around, etc. but no trace of my quilt ever turned up.
"It is a queen-sized bedspread, that hangs down on all sides of the bed. It is mostly silks and velvets, with many antique fabrics that are probably showing wear by now. There are numerous blocks with large "illustrations," embroidered pictures of a young woman, a young man, a scene with mountains and sunrise, a dragon, cats, flowers (especially a yellow day lily), birds, and many other things. Most of these pictures have embroidered dates ranging from 1976 to 1978. Sadly, my memories of this quilt, once so bright, are fading after 14 years. I have no photographs of the quilt.
"If you have any information that might be about my crazy quilt, please let me know. I don't use my real name on the web, but would reveal it to someone who knows about the quilt."
If you have any information on a crazy quilt that fits this description, please contact Dragonpatch at [email protected].
Posted August 1999.
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