Elegance by Kris Gregson Moss
This original quilt, made in 2007, is 22″ wide by 51″ high. It has a beige background with rectangles of mainly turquoise fabrics. The quilt is machine appliqued and machine quilted. The turquoise pieces are embellished with beading and couched with crocheted aqua yarn. There is a label sewn to the back of the quilt on the hanging sleeve with Kris’s name.
If you find this quilt, please contact Kris at [email protected].
Come Play with My by Amy Carlstrom
Amy Carlstrom made this quilt, Come Play with Me. This quilt was being returned after being part of a quilt contest. It was last seen on January 29, 2009 in Visalia, California. It is believed that this quilt (along with three other quilts listed on this site) may have been stolen along with nine other packages off of the porch while it was waiting to be picked up by the delivery company. The sender assumed the driver had picked them up since she saw him outside his truck, but the packages never arrived at their destination, and the local office claims they never received them.
Amy’s quilt is about 24″ by 48″. The main colors are blues and golds. Many paper pieced blocks are collaged together and then ample threads, buttons, and embellishments were added.
If you find this quilt, please contact Ronna at [email protected].
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.
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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In 1947, Sharon Conway’s grandmother, Alyse Hamrick, made a Three Little Pigs baby quilt for her using a commercial pattern. The crib sized quilt was hand pieced, hand appliqued and hand quilted. It was embellished with embroidery. Sharon last saw her quilt in 1975 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It was lost during a move. Sharon says she “would love to have it back for my grandchildren.” If you help Sharon, please contact her at [email protected].
Wine and Dine by Roz Manor
Roz Manor hopes to recover two of her original quilts, both lost by a shipping company. They were last seen on Sunday, March 4, 2007 at the New Jersey Quiltfest in Somerset, New Jersey.
The first quilt is “Wine and Dine”, which won Best of Show. This quilt is approximately 30″ by 40″. It is a party setting with food, wine, and artwork about wine. Roz used many different fabrics in the quilt including solids, patterns, metallics, and leather. It is heavily embellished using embroidery thread, metallic thread, confetti, and wine corks glued onto the borders. She also included pictures printed onto fabric. The quilt has a label hand sewn to the bottom corner on the back. Roz writes, “This quilt is one of a kind and very important to me. It took 9 months to complete and cannot be reproduced.”
Retro Chic by Roz Manor
The second quilt, below, is “Retro Chic”. This quilt is about 60″ by 84″. It is multicolored, incorporating commercial pictures and fabrics depicting the 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s. This quilt was hand quilted with monofilament thread and it is heavily embellished. It has a label with Roz’s name and address sewn to the bottom back corner. This quilt took over a year and a half to design and construct. It is extremely personal with many pictures of important events and cultural items from the 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s.
Please contact Roz at [email protected] if you have any information about these missing quilts.
Trick or Treat by Janice Beitz
Janice Beitz would like to recover her Trick or Treat quilt that was last seen on October 16 or 17, 2006. It was boxed and shipped at Relay Mail in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was sent via a shipping company, but never arrived. The quilt was a gift for her grandchildren for Halloween.
This orange and black quilt was made from a commercially printed panel. It has one beige border and a wider black Moda Marble border. It is backed with an orange/yellow gradation fabric printed with black bats of various sizes. The quilt is 36″ by 54″. Janet designed and digitized embroideries of a pumpkin, a spider and web, bats, and a tombstone. The quilt is embellished with beads and hair. It was made in October 2006.
If you find this quilt, please contact Janice through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Sailor Son by Vicki Crawford
Vicki Crawford made a very special quilt for her son, Philip Crawford. In November 2003 she mailed it to him. It was delivered outside of his apartment in Visalia, California. Someone (a stranger) signed the recipient’s name for the box, which also contained some household items. Philip went door to door questioning the residents. The police were contacted. The local newspaper even wrote an article about the theft and printed a picture of the quilt, but it was never recovered. Sortly afterwards, Philip was relocated by the Navy. However, this quilt has enormous sentimental value, and the family still hopes it will be returned.
This 68″ by 80″ quilt was adapted from the “Random Stars” pattern from Celebrate the Seasons with Quilts. It has a variety of 3″ to 12″ stars. The main colors are red, white, blue, and tan. All of the stars are made of patriotic fabrics on tan muslin background. It is embellished with four Navy patches: Top Gun, Navy Symbol, Oceana VA, and NAS Pensacola. On the label, Vicki wrote an original poem to her son about his naval service.
If you have information about this quilt, please contact Vicki through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
On October 23, 2005 Paula Golden lost a quilt she was working on. She was on the 6 PM American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Washington National Airport. Somehow the quilt disappeared from her bag. Paula has checked with airport personel, but has not yet found the quilt.
The unfinished quilt is 16″ by 20″. It features a vase filled with rocks, pebbles, and sand. She used applique and beads. The vase is fuschia, the rocks are rust, and the pebbles are gold. She used silks and polyester. It is hand appliqued and machine quilted. It has clear faceted and opaque round beads.
If you find Paula’s quilt, please contact her through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Landscapes by Kay Vascik
Four landscape quilts have been shoplifted from the Yankee Pride Quilt Shop in Champlain Mill, Winooski, Vermont. The quilts were made by Kay Vascik. They were last seen in 1999. Each of the quilts are labeled on the back with the title, name and date written in Pigma pen.
Signs of Spring is shown in the top left. It is 24″ by 28″. The main colors are soft greys, tans, greens, and blues with a mauve border. Some fabrics are from the Nancy Crow collection. There are embroidered geese in the sky. This quilt was made in 1996.
Autum Splendor, made in 1996-97, is shown on the top right. It is 14″ by 24″. The main colors are browns and fall colors with teal and chocolate brown borders. Some Hoffman leaf fabrics were used. Groups of leaves were cut fro the fabric and arranged so the blue of the original fabric was not showing. Some leaves extended into the border on the left side.
Home is in the bottom left. This 8″ by 11″ quilt was made in 1996. The main colors are forest greens, blues, browns and birch-like fabric with forest blue-green borders. Some hand-painted blue fabric was used. The same green fabric was used in different ways for texture, birch bark, and frigned green fabric for moss/grass.
Mallet’s Bay Sunrise is the quilt in the bottom right. It is 24″ by 30″. The main colors are blues, pinks, oranges, and yellow with navy blue, gold and orange borders. Hoffman water fabric and Sky Dyes hand painted fabric were used as well as silver lame fabric. The sailboat was embellished with embroidery thread and ripples of light on the lake were made with silver thread. This quilt was made in 1998.
If you know anything about the whereabouts of these quilts, please contact Kay at [email protected].
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