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Stars Over the Georgetown Patch

Oct 06 1999

Stars Over the Georgetown Path by Lela Hadraval

This prize winning quilt, called Stars Over the Georgetown Path, was pieced and hand quilted by Lela Hadrava. It was stolen on September 15, 1999 after it was dropped off for the Eastern Iowa Heirloom Quilt Show which was held at the Teamsters Hall, 5000 J Street, SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The theft was discovered on the morning of September 16 when it could not be found for judging.

The quilt is 94″ by 104″. There are six different fabrics: a floral Hoffman print that has rose and purple raspberries with a black background, two shades of rose fabric, two shades of green fabric, and a cream and gold background fabric. A label is sewn on the back.

Lela was the “featured quilter” this year at her guild show. The picture shown above was taken at the 1999 Dyersville, Iowa quilt show where it won a “Best of Show” award.

If you have any information on the location of this quilt, please contact Nan Fowler at [email protected].

 
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Overall Boys Quilt

Oct 03 1999

Overall Boys by P. Jimerson Stow

This beloved quilt was given to Pamela Jimerson Stow when she was a born in 1958. Her aunt in Iowa lovingly made it for her and Pamela always treasured it.

The quilt was lost when Pamela was living in Hilmar, California or in West Pittsburg, California around 1985 or 1986.

Pamela says, “I do not know if somebody took a liking to it and walked off with it. Or if my older daughter wrapped her sister in it and forgot to bring it home with them. My heart is heavy each time I think of my baby quilt and the care my own mother had taken not to loose it so it could be passed along to my family. I tell my husband if I ever see this quilt I will go to no end to get it back.”

The quilt was made up of Overall Boys (similar to Sunbonnet Sue). The photo shown below IS NOT a picture of her quilt, but it is a reproduction quilt that was made using Pamelas quilt as a pattern.

The blocks in Pamelas quilt were done in light kiwi green and the boys were in many different colors. Each boy was outlined with black stitching. The quilt was made of a heavy fabric and is just larger than crib size.

Pamela concludes, “Like many of us with missing quilts, all I hold is a memory that can never be taken away from me. I see it everyday but never had a photo taken because I never thought I would lose it.”

Protect your quilts and your memories by taking time to photograph and document your quilts now!

If you have any information on an Overall Boys quilt that fits this description, please contact Pamela Jimerson Stow at [email protected].

 
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Twin Baby Quilts

Sep 18 1999

Thomas's Quilt by Rachel May

Rachel May is grieving the loss of two baby quilts. The quilts disappeared during the Mays move from Manhattan, Kansas to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on June 4, 1999. Their boxes arrived at their new home on June 18, 1999.

Rachel says, “When moving this June, several boxes of ours were stolen, probably by workers at the moving company. One box contained two quilts just made for my identical twins sons who were born in April. The quilts are the same but one is in bright red and one in deep red. They have 4 rows each with 4 sail boats across divided by a red/deep red border. There is also a border around the whole quilt. On the back are fabric tabs with the boys names and birth date, the name of the quilt and the name of the quilter. I do not care about anything else we lost in the move. I would love to have these quilts back in any condition, no questions asked.”

Both quilts are approximately 60″ by 36″. The quilts were custom made by Julie Jacobson and Rachel said she only photographed the baby quilts because Julie requested pictures. She would never have thought about taking photos otherwise, and now she is glad she has them. The quilts are machine pieced and machine quilted.

The quilt shown above with the bright red sashing is labeled: Thomas Michael May 4/14/99 “Sailing Away” Julie Jacobson

Anthony's Quilt by Rachel May

The quilt shown below with dark red sashing is labeled: Anthony Vincent May 4/14/99 “Lets Go Sailing” Julie Jacobson

The labels were stitched on after the quilting was completed, it is possible they could be removed. The quilts were made in Balboa, California and that information may also be on the labels.

One other quilt was lost at the same time. Rachel does not have a photo of this quilt, but it is a log cabin design about the same size as the baby quilts and it uses a loud blue and red Hawaiian print.

If you have any information on these two beautiful baby quilts, please contact Rachel at [email protected].

 
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Flowers In The Cabin

Aug 31 1999

Flowers in the Cabin by Shirley Sims

Flowers in the Cabin by Shirley Sims

This quilt, Flowers in the Cabin, was lost by a shipping company in June 1999 during the return shipment after being displayed in the MQS (Machine Quilters Showcase) show in Springfield, Illinois on June 9-12, 1999.

The top was pieced by Kristi Sims-Kirkegard and it was machine quilted by Shirley Sims. It is 71″ by 82″. Kristi made this quilt for her dad for Christmas. The quilt pattern was inspired by the book “More Quick Rotary Cut Quilts” by Pan Bono. Notice the distinctive backing and label.

This quilt is the victim of a suspected theft. Though the shipping company has compensated Shirley monetarily, needless to say, she is very upset and would much rather have the quilt safely returned. She has offered a reward for the return of the quilt, no questions asked. If you have any information on this quilt, please contact Shirley Sims at [email protected].

 
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Prized Crazy Quilt Thrown Away

Aug 30 1999

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].

 
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Handmade Quilt Frame

Aug 30 1999

Peg Bird of Yellow Springs, Ohio writes, “An aunt of mine, living between Uniontown and Hartville, Ohio (Stark County, Akron-Canton area), borrowed another aunt’s quilt frame and stored it in her barn, from which it was stolen, along with a nickel silver show saddle. Although this happened over 25 years ago, the loss of this quilt frame is still a huge heartbreak, as it was made for my Aunt Ida by her dear father many years before, who died young. Aunt Ida is 93 years old now, and still grieves for this family treasure, as do others in the family.

“This handmade, one-of-a-kind quilt frame is made from a yellowish wood, as I recall, and has a (two?) wooden ratchet(s) of the same wood. It looks somewhat lightweight and has folding X legs on each end. The rails are hexagonal or perhaps octagonal. Whatever, the identifying mark is the name “IDA” and a date on it, carved with a pocket knife in square letters and numerals.

“If anyone should know of such a quilt frame, I would be glad to supply the year carved on it as positive proof of ownership. I would also be willing to arrange for its purchase from the current owner, as I’m sure that by this time whoever has it does not know that it is stolen merchandise.”

If you have any information about this quilt frame, please contact [email protected] or call 1-937-767-1946.

 
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Quilt Show Tragedy

Aug 27 1999

On March 4, 1998, Pat Lemmons entered three quilts in a quilt show at the Heritage Center in Abilene, Kansas.

She delivered the quilts herself in two plastic bags and one brown sack with the top showing. She expected the show representatives to put them with the other quilts at that time, but they were painting and she was told to just set them down next to the desk in the office. The painter (who was the director of the show) promised he would get them put away after he cleaned up! She placed the brown bag in a larger plastic bag to protect it from paint. She even went back in after going to the car and questioned that he would take care of them.

Her friend went to the show on March 16 and discovered the quilts were not in the show. No one knows when they disappeared!!! When these quilts were entered in the show, the history of each quilt and Pat Lemmons’ name were on a computer print out attached to quilt. Each of these are family heirlooms and are irreplaceable.

Pat emphasizes, “All I can say is don’t leave them unless you see them take them to the storage where I was told there were others! It was my first show, and probably my last.”

Family Tree by Pat Lemmons

Family Tree by Pat Lemmons


Family Tree Quilt - 50th Anniversary Gift in 1979

All the blocks have white backgrounds and the designs were done with fabric crayons by family members, except for the top two center blocks which contain two black silhouettes with the names “Floyd” and “Nellie” in a red heart between. The dates of “1929″ and “1979″ are shown. Every block is signed and includes birth dates. The bottom right square is an outline of a child’s hand, colored with many colors and signed “KATHY”. The quilt is tied with black yarn and the back is a gold colored blanket.

Friendship Quilt by Pat Lemmons


Friendship Quilt

Except for the center left and bottom right block, the background of the blocks is ecru (light beige). There are 20 blocks. On the top, the second from the left is a tree with fourteen paper bags hanging in and three bags hanging below the tree. The bottom right block includes the embroidered words “381 Questers Pug Memories 4-H and PTA”. Each block is bordered with a multicolored fabric of mauve, sage green, brown and ecru. The back matches the border fabric. An ecru heart is stitched on the bottom right on the back of the quilt and signed by the quilters. This quilt is approximately 72″ by 65″.

Family Heirloom by Pat Lemmons

Family Heirloom by Pat Lemmons


Family Heirloom Quilt

This quilt is blue with white blocks and has hand embroidered bouquets tied with blue bows. The backing matches the blue used in the top and the binding has a point edge. The white blocks are old, made in the 1920′s. The blue fabric is new and the quilt is approximately 92″ long and 94″ wide.

Please help Pat find these three priceless family
heirlooms! If you have information about any of these three quilts, please contact Pat Lemmons at [email protected] or call her at 785-263-8143.

 
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Treasured Crazy Quilt Jacket

Aug 24 1999

Crazy Quilt Jacket by Lou Anne Sassone

Crazy Quilt Jacket by Lou Anne Sassone

After LouAnne Sassones mother-in-law died, a crazy quilt jacket that had been promised to her was mistakenly given away to a non-quilting relative who sent it to her local thrift store in Rio Vista, California. By the time she was alerted, it was gone from the thrift store.

LouAnne writes, “This was a work of art and had hung on a wall or doorknob ALL the time. My daughters were as devastated as was I when the sister-in-law told me that she thought it an ugly thing and took it to her local thrift shop. She checked with the thrift shop and, of course, it was gone.”

The jacket was made by Charlotte Tuggle in the 70′s and was a true family treasure. She had promised that one day it would be LouAnnes; however, Mrs. Tuggle did not put it in her will. One thing that she did put in the will was that her clothing was all to go to her sister-in-law, so her husband, in his grief, gathered the jacket up along with everything else in the closet and carried it off to Rio Vista.

A happy coincidence has developed from this loss, however. LouAnne inherited all her mother-in-laws sewing items and she had kept all the many scraps left over from making the jacket and a vest that was also lost (no picture of the vest exists). This led LouAnne to get more involved with crazy quilting and now she has truly found her artistic medium at last after many years of struggling creatively. She is now planning a crazy quilted runner for the top of her piano with photo transferred pictures of her mother-in-law in the middle.

If you have any information regarding this crazy quilt jacket, please contact LouAnne at [email protected].

 
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Trip Around the World

Aug 24 1999

Trip Around the World by Margaret Ainsworth

This Trip Around the World quilt was stolen from her sister-in-laws apartment in the University Place Retirement Home in Houston, TX in 1997. The quilt was signed on the back with an indelible, black micron Pigma© pen by Margaret Ainsworth and dated 1995.

Margaret belongs to the Dutch Dolls Bee of the AAQG, Austin, Texas. If you have any information on this quilt please contact [email protected].

 
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Recovered! First December In Ohio

Aug 06 1999

First December in Ohio by Maria Elkins

First December in Ohio by Maria Elkins

The quilt shown to the left, “First December in Ohio,” was sent to the NQA (National Quilting Association) 30th Annual Quilt Show in Omaha, Nebraska held June 24-27, 1999. This quilt received second place in the Wall Quilt, Mixed Techniques, Machine Quilted category at that show.

In June 1999, a shipping company lost this quilt during the return shipment after the show. It took nearly two full months for UPS to get this quilt from Omaha, Nebraska to Ohio and, according to the tracking information retrieved from the Internet, they included a side trip to Anaheim, California at no extra charge!

During the two month period that the package was lost, the shipping company was unable to locate this quilt even though, when it finally arrived, the shipping label was completely intact. The shipping box was crushed, heavily taped, and in very bad shape but the quilt survived with absolutely no damage. There was no explanation as to how or why it got lost.

 
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