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Peter’s Bug Collection

Apr 29 2012

Patty Macy is searching for a quilt that she made for her grandson, Peter Macy. This quilt was last seen in 2009 in Silverdale, Washington. The Navy family was moved to Italy for assignment. The quilt didn’t make it. It may have been packed in the household goods that were stored in Washington, but when the family returned to Silverdale and opened the boxes, they still couldn’t find the quilt.

The quilt is about 50″ by 59″ The main colors are blues, reds, yellows, greens, browns, black and white. Patty used the bottle quilt pattern with various bug fabrics, so it looks like bottles of bugs sitting on shelves. The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted. It is custom quilted with bug shapes and bug names in the black open spaces around the bottles. The label reads something like: “Peter’s Bug Collection, created with love by Patty Macy 2005.” It is sewn on a back corner.

Patty has made several similar quilts, but each one is a little different. One is hanging in a grandson’s home in Virginia. Others were donated to CASA kids and to A Partner’s In Care Fundraiser, El Dorado County, California.

If you’ve seen Peter’s quilt, please contact Patty at [email protected].

 
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Cosmos #6

Apr 22 2011

Cosmos #6Japan Handicraft Instructors’ Association
hopes someone will be able to help this quilt, Cosmos #6. This quilt was last seen in Vicenza, Italy on October 24, 2010. It became missing during transportation from Italy to Japan via France.

This original quilt is made of silk. It features a subterranean panorama of the earth. It is machine pieced, machine appliqued, and machine quilted. It also has hand painting and hand dyed fabric. The main colors are brown, grey, and ivory. It was made in 2009. It is 51″by 67″ (130 cm by 170 cm). There is a label sewn to the back of the quilt that says, “Cosmos #6, 130×170.”

If you can help recover this quilt, please contact Japan Handicraft Instructors’ Association at [email protected].

 
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Recovered! Red Patches Quilt

May 01 2010

The baby quilt shown above was made by Rita Hodge in 2010. She sold it on Etsy and it was sent by Registered Mail from Melbourne, Australia to Milan, Itay on February 15. She was able to track it all the way to Italy, but it never reached its final destination.

On May 1, 2010, Rita reported that the quilt has been recovered! Apparently it spent two months sitting in an Italian Post Office, unclaimed by the recipient. Exactly two months after its arrival in Italy, it was returned to sender, and it arrived on Rita’s veranda in Australia just six days later. The parcel was intact and unopened. Rita says, “It has restored my faith in our postal services!”

This quilt is an original design. It features a wide variety of mainly red and white cotton and linen fabrics. Many of the fabrics are screen printed by well-known Australian designers so they are unique and easily recognizable. It is machine quilted with vertical lines approximately 1-1/2-inches apart, and it is bound with a red and white striped fabric. The back of the quilt features a red and orange single repeat panel by Australian designer Saffron Craig. The fabric features two owls sitting in a tree. The quilt was labeled with a small label sewn into the binding in the bottom left corner on the back of the quilt. The label reads, “Red Pepper Quilts.”

 
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Blue Waves

Feb 16 2006

Blue Waves by Frieda Oxenham

This original quilt, Blue Waves by Frieda Oxenham, was accepted into the Rhythm ‘n Blues Exhibition of the 11th European Patchwork Meeting at Val d’Argent, France in September 2005 and then was to be exhibited in various places in France and Italy.

The quilt was going to be exhibited in the town hall of Luserna S. Giovanni, a town approximately 45 minutes from Turin, Italy. It was to be displayed as part of an event entitled “From Tradition to Textile Art,” put on during the 2006 Winter Olympics. On February 16, Frieda was informed that Blue Waves and four other quilts were stolen. Aparently all the quilts for the Rhythm ‘n Blues exhibition were shipped from France to Italy in one big box via a courier company. On arrival at the town hall, someone signed for the box which looked undisturbed. However, on opening the box, it turned out that the top five quilts were not there. It is not know if this is a random theft or a planned one.

This original quilt is hand and machine pieced and hand quilted with extensive beading all done by hand. It measures 48-1/8″ by 85-1/8″ (122 x 217 cm).

If you have any information about the theft of these quilts, please contact Frieda through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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