Caroline Surdy is looking for a red, white, and blue star quilt that she made for Christopher T. Conway. Her son’s friend left it behind at a festival in Oregon in the 1990’s. Her son would love to recover the quilt because she made it for him when he left home to make his mark in life. This full size quilt is dark red, navy blue, and white. The backing … Continue reading
Claudia Pfeil needs help recovering her quilt called Circleation. It was last seen on May 7, 2014 in Salt Lake City. Claudia was teaching at HMQS in classroom 200B. After finishing the class, she was busy with the students and her two helpers folded all the class examples onto a pile on the table before putting them in her suitcase. The new group of students came in and there was … Continue reading
Laura Furry hopes someone has seen this quilt which she made for Richard Furry. It was last seen in Houston, Texas on April 11, 2012. It was being mailed to Los Angeles, California, but the package never arrived. This queen size quilt is mostly a wholecloth quilt. It is hand quilted with a diamond pattern in the center and straight lines coming down on the sides and bottom. The black … Continue reading
On August 17, Sue Reich asked for help locating four missing World War II Quilts. Sue found out that these quilts went missing between 12:30 and 3:30 AM on August 11 at the shipping company’s facility in Keasbey, New Jersey. The quilts were at the Asheville Quilt Show in Asheville, North Carolina on August 6-8 2010. Four trunks of quilts were shipped back to Sue in New Jersey. Three of … Continue reading
On September 1, 2006, Kelley Richardson shipped her original Feathered Heart Wholecloth Quilt from Ontario, Canada to a show in Wisconsin. Sadly, it never arrived and could not be located. Finally, on October 17 the quilt was found! The lady receiving the quilts said the box looked pretty beat up, but when she removed the quilts they had not been damaged at all. The quilts are now on their way … Continue reading
In 1977 Joe and Roxana Chaparro were moving from Berkeley, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico. During the trip, their White Wedding Quilt got lost. It is a queen size, whole cloth quilt with a feathered border. A label was embroidered onto the quilt. It says something like, “For Joe and Roxana Chaparro married in Berkeley, CA 1973, made by Idell Chaparro.” If you’ve seen this quilt, please contact Roxana through … Continue reading
Another award winning quilt has come up missing! Laura Bailey Parks designed a special raffle quilt for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Batesville, Arkansas. She calls it “The BBC” (the Barnett Building Ceiling) because the original design was inspired by a pressed metal ceiling in a department store in Batesville. The quilt is 85-1/2″ square. It is an off-white, whole cloth quilt which is heavily hand-quilted with burgundy thread. The … Continue reading
Sarah Capdeville is searching for her stolen baby quilt. Seventeen years ago, her family was returning to the US after being stationed overseas and they waited at a New York airport. Sarah was too old to go into the airport nursery with her mother and baby sister, so her mom made a pallet on their shipping trunks, put Sarah down for a nap and covered her with a yellow whole-cloth … Continue reading
