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Recovered! Crazy in the Garden

Apr 30 2012

Allison Aller was hoping that someone had found her missing quilt called “Crazy in the Garden.” It was last seen on May 14, 2011 at Quilt Market in Salt Lake City. It was in the C & T Publishers booth, but it never arrived back at C & T’s headquarters after the market was over.

This original quilt is 46″ by 46″. This heavily embellished quilt features garden colors; blue, green, pink, orange, and purple dominate. The quilt is covered with three dimensional flowers. It also has appliqued, machine embroidered hummingbirds and butterflies. There are several beaded butterflies as well. This is the quilt that is on the cover of her book, “Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting: Modern Piecing and Embellishing Techniques for Joyful Stitching.” The quilt also won a second place in the Embellished Quilts category at the IQA Houston Show in 2010.

On April 30, 2012, C&T joyfully announced that all four missing quilts have been found!!! They had been carefully packed away in a mistakenly labeled, long-term storage box.

 
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Silk Crazy Quilt

Dec 21 2010

Linda Bryant is hoping that someone has information about a silk crazy quilt which was made by her mother. It was sold at a summer yard sale held in Bangor, Maine in the 1960′s. A man bought it and said he was going to put it in a museum.

This quilt is full-sze. It is made with silk fabrics and has names and dates significant to her family including “Irving and Judy, Nov. 26.” There are also hand embroidered flowers. The quilt was edged with lace.

If you know anything about this quilt, please contact Linda at [email protected].

 
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Crazy Patch Quilt Top

Aug 30 2010

Crazy Patch Quilt owned by Muriel Fitzgerald Jones

Crazy Patch Quilt owned by Muriel Fitzgerald Jones

Muriel D. Fitzgerald Jones is asking for help locating a crazy patch quilt top that was given to her by her mother sometime between 1978-1980. Her mother brought it to Souderton, Pennsylvania between 1980-1985 where she knew someone who could replace a few torn fabrics. At the time, Muriel was unaware that her mother was in the beginning stages of dementia. Now no one knows if the quilt top was ever returned or picked up. An ad was placed in a local paper around 2007 with no response. When Muriel’s parents sold their house in 1993, they hired two women to empty it and clean it, with the idea that they could take anything they wanted. If the quilt top had been returned, it is unknown if one of these women might have taken it or possibly even thrown it away.

Muriel believes this quilt top was made between 1900-1940 by her maternal grandmother and her family. It is a double size quilt top made mostly of fancy dress fabric scraps, including silk-like and velvets. She recognizes a few scraps from dresses her grandmother wore. The tops of the seams around each fabric were hand embroidered with a feather stitch in gold-colored embroidery floss.

Muriel grew up playing under a quilt frame in their Pennsylvania Dutch community. Naturally this quilt top has enormous sentimental value. If you are able to help locate this quilt top, please contact Muriel at [email protected].

 
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Bright Crazy Quilt

Jun 22 2009

Leah French Gonzalez is searching for a brightly colored crazy quilt made by her grandmother, Anna Henderson. When her grandmother passed away, her quilts were divided up. One was given to Leah’s aunt, Terry Stransky. When Terry passed away, the quilt could not be found among her things. It is possible she may have sold it when she came upon hard times. The quilt was last seen in 1993 in Santa Maria, California but it could have been sold in Santa Barbara, California.

This crazy quilt is full/queen size. The main colors are bright pink, green, yellows, all made from 1970′s scrap fabric and has crazy quilt type stitching. The quilt was made sometime between 1970 and 1978. It is possible that Anna may have embroidered her name on the quilt.

Please contact Leah through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if you’ve found a quilt that fits this description.

 
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Giraffe and Animals

May 28 2009

Giraffe and Animals by Robin Hansen

Robin Hansen Buchholz hopes to find a quilt that has been missing since Spring 1993. It was last seen at Tillamook Junior High School during a show-and-tell session. Her daughter brought it to her eighth grade class for a report on pioneers. She took an antique crazy quilt throw, an example of an Hawaiian quilt square in blue and white, an appliqud quilt top of a dinosaur sitting on an egg, and an embroidered quilt wall hanging we called my “Giraffe Quilt”. This was a quilt that I had dreamed of doing. I woke up one night about 2am in the mid-1980′s, after seeing this quilt in a dream. It would use up all the whimsical patterns from cards that my boyfriend in high school had sent me when I was laid up from a bike accident. It had a large giraffe in the middle, surrounded by animals and flowers all embroidered mostly in satin stitch. It had the first lines from “All things bright and beautiful!” poem on the quilt.

Please contact Robin at [email protected] if you have this quilt.

 
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Orange You Crazy

Jul 12 2008

Orange You Crazy by Kelly Cooper

When it was time to move, Kelly Cooper discovered that her quilt, “Orange You Crazy,” somehow was missing from her apartment in Texas. Her quilt, made about 2002, is crib/throw size. It is embroidered, beaded, and heavily embellished. It has hand-dyed lace butterfies and an embroidered black widow spider and web. It has a label which says, “When i am dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten when this you see remember me lest i shall be forgotten.” A photo can be seen on Webshots under the name keldelaina or here.

Please contact Kelly through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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Mom’s Crazy Quilt

Jul 11 2008

Gay is hoping to recover a crazy quilt made by her deceased mother. This quilt is very large with a queen size blue blanket as the foundation. It includes denims, velvets, patterns, etc. made from old clothing her kids wore. It was made in the 1980′s. “It is not a beautiful quilt, but I’d love to have it return to me!” The quilt was last seen in 1988 in Dallas, Texas when Gay loaned it to a friend to help with moving - he used to pad his furniture

Please contact Gay through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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Crazy Quilt Round Robin

Mar 10 2008

Twelve quilters joined an international crazy quilt round robin. Six of them had sent mainly finished, embellished blocks from New Zealand and Australia to one of the participants in Kingsburg, California, but that person has not been heard from since. The quilters with missing blocks are Hope Francis, Lynette Brumby, Jo Newsham, Margaret Price, Evie Harris, and Maureen Curlewis. The blocks below are not labeled, but a log book accompanied each block. The books inlcuded comments by the block owner and the other people who had worked on them.

If you are able to help in any way, please contact Maureen through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

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Crazy Quilt

Jun 02 2007

P. Enyart is searching for a crazy quilt that she made around 1975. It was misplaced during a move. It was last seen in 1980 in Eatontown/Long Branch, New Jersey. This quilt fits a double bed. It is multicolored and uses silk, satin, and velvet. It has a black velvet and white lace border. It is hand pieced and hand quilted. It has some embroidery, including the name “David” (the maker’s brother).

If you’ve seen this quilt, please contact P. Enyart through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

 
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Victorian Crazy Quilt

Oct 31 2005

Joyce Franke hopes to recover a twin-size Victorian Crazy Quilt which was made by Jane Charlotte Potts Van Avery. The hand-embroidered quilt used a variety of velvets and brocades. It has the maker’s name on it along with Joyce’s mother’s name, Osie Van Avery. The quilt was begun by Jane in 1892 and finished in 1932 by Osie. The names and dates are embroidered at the head of the bed.

This quilt was last seen in 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. By that time, Joyce’s mother was elderly and legally blind. It is believed that one of the helpers stole the quilt. Joyce would like to recover this as a family heirloom.

If you find this quilt, please contact Joyce at [email protected].

 
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