Ann Yuhas reported that on June 5, 2019 she found a lovely purple and white lap quilt at Normandale Park in Portland, Oregon. The quilt was made of fabrics that are batiks, probably constructed with 2.5″ strips, and machine pieced and machine quilted. The quilt has a label on it that was not personalized but shares the names of the quilt maker only, as well as another issue that the … Continue reading
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Noel Bliman is asking for help in finding a quilt she made in 2017 for her son and his family. This quilt, which Noel calls her “Steelers Colors Quilt” is approximately 48″ square. It was made from a paper piecing pattern of black, gold, and white fabrics. The quilt consists of 16 blocks in all, 2 of each block type. This stunningly complex quilt was machine pieced and quilted. On … Continue reading
Denise Brady, a quilter in Oregon is asking for help in finding this eye-catching pinwheel quilt made of light and dark blue and white fabrics. The quilt is approximately 80″ x 80″ machine pieced and machine quilted, as a Christmas gift for the quilter’s nephew, Christopher Brady. It was last seen in January, 2015 in Roseburg, Oregon. This quilt is labeled with a Christmas message to Christopher Brady from Denise Brady, … Continue reading
Mary King hopes to locate a quilted wall hanging that was made by Bertha McPherson for her mother. Bertha’s mother passed away in 2005 but Bertha continued to work on it. When Bertha passed away in 2009, her daughter kept the still unfinished quilt. In 2010, it was stolen from Bertha’s daughter during a home burglary in Scio, Oregon. If you see a quilt that looks like this, please contact … Continue reading
Holly Bedingfield hopes to recover a quilt that was made by her Grandma Evelyn. The quilt was last seen on June 30, 2017 in her home in Keizer, Oregon. They were packing for camping in the back of the truck. It was with another blanket in a large white garbage bag and the bag must have fallen out along the way. This queen size quilt is blue and white on … Continue reading
Elizabeth Adams is searching for a raffle quilt which was originally made as fundraiser by the community ladies of Laurel, Oregon. She writes, “The Ladies of Laurel would so very much like to hang this in the Laurel Hall, because the quilt began the fundraising to publish the 111 page history book about Laurel. Thank you to anyone who can put us in touch with the current owner.” They would … Continue reading
Audrey Cloven is searching for her original quilt named Mom’s Bali Chai. This quilt was last seen on November 11, 2016 on United flight 5201 (MFR Medford, Oregon to SFO San Francisco, California). The flight attendant placed the quilt in the first class overhead bin when she boarded and she didn’t realize it was missing until she was at her connecting gate, but the airlines was unable to locate it. … Continue reading
Dawn Reins of Fairview, Oregon reports that she has found a blue, pink, and cream baby quilt or lap quilt. It is machine pieced and digitally long-arm quilted with a butterfly meander. The binding is machine stitched with a zigzag stitch. It does not look like it has been washed. The quilt was found on January 8, 2016. Dawn suspects that it may have been stolen off someone’s porch just … Continue reading
Sandy Tuzinski shipped this quilt to her nephew for his wedding. The quilt was shipped on July 16, 2015 from Bloomington, Minnesota to Independence, Oregon. It was shipped in a plain, brown, rectangular box with signature confirmation, but it was never delivered. Her nephew and his bride have now moved to Colorado, but they never received their quilt, nor was it forwarded to them. Four months later, Sandy wrote, “I … Continue reading
Karlee Sandell was asking for help recovering her quilt, Tula Pink Modern City Block. It was last seen on September 26, 2015, in the Portland Expo Center parking lot at the Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland, Oregon. On October 14, Karlee wrote, “I am so excited! My tula pink city sampler quilt was found and is being returned! Thank you so much for getting the word out!… It was found … Continue reading
