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Tessellated Fish

Sep 08 2000

Linda of Kalamazoo is hoping to find her daughters quilt. It was stolen from her daughters room in a house in Albuquerque, New Mexico during the Spring of 1999.

The twin-size quilt is a tessellated fish pattern and was done in cottons and satins. It was made from a pattern found in a Quilters Newsletter Magazine in the early 1980s. The colors were greens, golds, blues and purples, mostly scraps. It also has a very unusual quilting pattern in the center.

If you have seen a quilt that matches this description, please contact Linda at [email protected].

 
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Sunbonnet Sue

Sep 08 2000

Stephanie Davison is in search of her lost Sunbonnet Sue quilt. In June 1975 they moved from a rental home in Brent, Alabama to an apartment in Birmingham, Alabama. This quilt and a tin of old buttons were in an old wooden trunk that was left behind. Months later when they went back to search for this trunk, everything was gone.

The quilt was made for Stephanie when she was a young girl. It was made from aprons, dresses and “pedal-pushers” that her mother and she had owned. The quilt also contained feed sack fabrics. The quilt was a Sunbonnet Sue pattern, but it was different because the bonnet did not completely cover her face. Stephanie does not remember if the quilt was labeled, but she knows it was made by Mrs. Cruce.

If you know about a quilt that meets this description, please contact Stephanie L. Davison at [email protected].

 
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Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Sep 08 2000

Karlene Bradley hopes to find a quilt made by her great-grandmother in the 1920s or 1930s. It is a double wedding ring pattern, made for a double bed. The background is white and uses a variety of prints for the rings. The handwork was beautiful.

This quilt was last seen in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in the early 1990s. It was supposed to be handed down to Karlene after her great-aunt died, but it was sold in error. Karlene thinks the woman who bought it, a Mrs. Bottenberg, has since died. Karlene would like to locate her family and possibly retrieve this heirloom quilt.

If you know anything that can help, please contact Karlene Bradley at [email protected]. Originally posted September 8, 2000.

 
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Yellow Whole-Cloth Quilt

Aug 25 2000

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 quilt. When Sarah awoke, someone had stolen the quilt right off of her while she slept. They searched the immediate area and could not find the missing quilt.

The quilt was about 72″ square. It was a light yellow whole-cloth quilt and was bound with a satiny ribbon. The quilting was done in a simple diamond pattern. The backing was very soft, warm and fuzzy possibly flannel.

The quilt is very special to Sarah because it was made by her grandmother. Sarah says she would like to know more about this quilt, “If nothing more than to know where it wound up. I hope it has been used to bring love and warmth to another child.”

Please contact Sarah Capdeville at [email protected] if you have any leads on this quilt.

 
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Tallman Family Quilt

Aug 17 2000

Tallman Family Quilt

Barbara Heine is searching for her great-great grandmothers quilt that was auctioned off.

It was auctioned on June 19, 1993 by Julia-Poulin Antiques in Fairfield, Maine. It was from the estate of James Smith of Showhegan, Maine. It was either purchased by a Margaret Smith of North Anson, Maine or a man from Portland, Maine. It is possible that one of them owns an antique store.

The quilt has bright red sashing with pink, gold, and black or brown. The quilt bears the names of the Tallman children, signed in black ink in the center of random squares. Not all of the squares are signed. Signatures would include Elizabeth, Henrietta, Tunis, Ambrose, Samuel, Rosa and Ulysses. The quilt was made around 1847. Barbara believes the quilt was made by Elizabeths mother (Barbaras great-great grandmother), but she doesnt have her name yet.

Barbara and other family members are doing what they can to find this quilt. If you have any information regarding this quilt, please contact Barbara Heine at [email protected].

 
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Scrappy Nine Patch

Aug 17 2000

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Kate Holestine is looking for a quilt that is very near and dear to her heart. It was the first quilt she made on her own with her grandmothers assistance.

It is a fairly simple scrappy nine-patch made from fabrics from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s combined with white muslin. It is twin size and tied, not quilted. The blocks were put together with a dark green print, shown above, that features a diamond-shaped dimensional design. This fabric is dark green with black lines and bright colors.

The quilt was left in or taken out of a motel room in Montana or Idaho in sometime in the first two weeks of November of 1985 or 1986 while she was traveling with her high school volleyball team to a state tournament.

Naturally, she was heartbroken when she couldnt find her quilt. The fabrics used were scraps left from dresses she had when she was a child as well as dresses from her mother and aunts and shirts from her brother, father, uncles and grandfather. It is truly a family keepsake.

If you know of a quilt that fits this description, please contact Catherine Holestine at [email protected].

 
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Harriet Carpenter Quilt

Aug 17 2000

Harriet Carpenter Quilt

Mary Jo Scott is searching for her great-great-grandmothers quilt which was sold at the Womans Club Thrift Shop in State College, Pennsylvania around 1972.

The quilt is supposed to be a flag pattern, having one very large American flag on it with a blue background. It may be similar to the pictures to the right. The quilting is superb and it has ornate embroidery saying “Made and presented to JCH by Grandma Carpenter” and the date. The date is probably between 1895 and 1900.

Mary Jo says, “The most important clue I have about the missing quilt is that I am sure it will have the beautiful embroidery with initials JCH. It is possible that it is not the flag pattern. My cousin who saw it as a child thinks it was a flag.”

This quilt is believed to be the twin to the one above. It is featured in Patricia Herrs new book, “Quilting Traditions.” Mary Jo owns this quilt. She was told about the missing quilt by her 82-year-old cousin who described it to her. She knows that her great-great grandmother did make duplicates of some of her other non-traditional patterns. About twenty heirloom quilts by this woman have been documented, and most are different patterns.

If you know of a quilt that meets this description, please contact Mary Jo Scott at [email protected].

 
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Scrappy Log Cabin Quilt

Jul 25 2000

Scrappy Log Cabin by Darcy Ashton

During the mid 1980s, Darcy Ashtons ex-husband used her log cabin quilt to cover some furniture while moving from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. When he arrived, the quilt had blown off! Darcy retraced the route repeatedly, but never found her quilt. It is possible the quilt blew off hear the Broken Arrow Expressway.

This was the first quilt Darcy had made. It was a full size, log cabin, scrap quilt with all kinds of colors and fabrics. She had stitched her name, “Darcy”, and “1983″ in one of the logs. Of course, as her first quilt, this quilt has great sentimental value to her.

If you know of a quilt that meets this description, please contact Darcy at [email protected].

 
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Family Tree Quilt

Jul 25 2000

Anita Wetherill has been working on a Family Tree quilt for the last six years. While she was traveling she carried the unfinished quilt in a forest green and navy canvas bag with a black shoulder strap. The bag looks similar to a soft briefcase that would be used for carrying a laptop computer. On June 23, 2000 around 3:30 to 4:30 PM, the bag was stolen while she was waiting for a flight in the Philadelphia Airport Terminal.

This family tree was for the Smith family who has been holding family reunions every two years since the late 1940s. Anita was on the way to the reunion in Green Lake, Wisconsin when the bag containing the quilt top was stolen.

The unfinished quilt top featured an appliqued tree trunk and some appliqued leaves with signatures of family members. Individual six-inch squares made by each family member were also in the bag.

Anita says, “Unfortunately, I am sure that whoever took it thought that he/she was getting a laptop computer or something more valuable that some fabric and it ended up in a dumpster somewhere. However, stranger things have happened than the possibility of it reappearing!”

Anita is offering a reward for the return of her quilt top. If you have any information about this quilt, please contact Anita at [email protected].

 
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Firebird Round Robin

Jul 14 2000

Firebird by Kathleen Grover

Kathleen Grover participated in a round robin during 1996. Each participant chose a ballet theme for her quilt and Kathleen chose Firebird.

Two participants in the round robin group never received their quilt back and apparently both were kept by the same person. Multiple emails and letters were sent in an attempt to recover this quilt, but she never responded.

The main “block” which Kathleen did was that of a bird rising above the flames. The bird was made of red marbleized fabric with edges and detailing in gold thread. The background was hand dyed purple streaky fabric. The original sketch and scraps of fabric that she used are shown to the right.

Along with the quilt top was a disposable camera, about $150 worth of fabric to be used by the other participants, and a tape of the musical score to Firebird.

The quilt was last sent to Washington DC / Maryland metropolitan area.

Kathleen says, “It is really awful when something like this happens to you — I had dutifully worked on HER quilt top, which she received. This has made me very leery of getting into these round robin things…A note on the quality of the workmanship — some of the same group of women did a round robin with an Opera theme, and an article was published on them in the AQS magazine.”

If you have any information on a quilt with a block that fits the description of this Firebird, please contact Kathleen at [email protected].

 
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