C&T Publishing was searching for a gathered table runner made by Sweetwaters. This 42.5″ by 16″ quilt disappeared, along with three other quilts, during May 2011 from Spring Quilt Market in Utah.
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.
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.
Joyce R. Becker was asking for help recovering her quilt, Dryer Lint Etc. The quilt was last seen on May 15, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was on display in the C&T Publishing booth during Spring Quilt Market. This is the quilt which was used on the cover of Joyce’s new book, “Quick Little Landscape Quilts.” This purple and green quilt is 18″ square. It uses hand-painted SkyDye fabric, colored dryer lint, felted dryer lint and silk fibers. It is further embellished with Angelina fibers and hand french knots. It is machine appliqued and machine quilted.
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.
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 patmacy@gmail.com.
B.J. Reid’s quilt, “One Female at a Time” was last seen in April 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. The quilt had been part of the show, “Women - Peace and Security.” It was displayed at the United Nations in Geneva. The quilt became missing between the date when the show ended and the day it was to have been shipped back to the USA.
This quilt has now been located! However, four others from the same exhibit are still currently missing. One of those still missing is seen on the Quilt for Change website.
This original quilt is 20″ wide and 30″ high. There are many rectangles of color hand painted on a textured cream-colored background. There is a line sketch of a portrait of a woman. Many words (such as love and equality) were written via machine quilting. A collection of yarns are couched on the edge and run through a bead at the lower right corner and then form a tassel. The quilt is labeled on the back.
Sandra Parrott needs help recovering her original art quilt, Deep Space. This quilt, along with another disappeared from the Media Loft in New Rochelle, New York. This quilt was last seen on February 27, 2012.
Sandra’s quilt is 18″ by 22″. The main colors are blue and gold. She used Northcott Stonehenge blue fabric. The quilt is fused appliqued and machine quilted.
If you find this quilt, please contact Sandra at parrart@aol.com.
Please be on the lookout for Donna Chamber’s art quilt. It was last seen March 9, 2012. It was last seen at New Rochelle City Hall, New Rochelle, NY. The quilt was taken as the exhibit was being set up.
This quilt is 18″ by 22″. She used Michael Miller Mirror Ball fabric, animal prints, and metallic prints. The main colors are creams and browns. The quilt is fused appliqued and machine quilted. It was made in 2011.
If you find this quilt, please contact Donna at donnacham@aol.com.
Karen Combs has experienced the theft of numerous quilts and samples. Sometime between midnight and 6 AM on March 16, 2012, her rental car’s driver side window was broken and her teaching suitcase was stolen. The car was parked at a hotel located at 750 IH 35 North in New Braunfels, Texas. The police were called and they stated the break-in looked like the work of a professional. It was likely a “smash and grab” with the thief not knowing what was in the suitcase.
The black suitcase contained quilts for her Patchwork Illusions class, along with teaching supplies and demo items. It was in the back of an SUV. The quilts are original designs. They are labeled with Karen’s name and address. The labels are sewn on the back, and could easily be removed.
Karen wrote in her March 18 blog entry, “It is something every traveling quilt teacher fears, her quilts will be stolen or lost. Unfortunately, it has happened to me. I’m heartbroken. . . please share the images and story below. I hope they will be found.”
She also writes, “If you live in New Braunfels or anywhere in Texas, please check local yard sales, flea markets and pawn shops for the quilts. Everyone, please forward this blog posting to every quilter and quilt shop you know and ask them to forward it to everyone they know.”
You can read more about these stolen quilts on Karen Combs’ blog, karencombs.wordpress.com/.
If you have any information about this theft, please contact Karen karen@karencombs.com.
Elizabeth Janes is searching for her hexagon patchwork quilt. It was made by her father. It is a large, single bed quilt. It is hand-sewn. It features mixed colors with a border pattern of black hexagons around the edge. It is at least fifteen years old, but the precise year it was made is unknown.
Elizabeth’s sister was sent this quilt to her from Somerset to Hertfordshire in 2010, but it got lost in the mail and never arrived.
This was the last quilt Elizabeth’s father ever made, so it is naturally of great sentimental value to their family. If you’ve found this quilt, please contact Elizabeth at emilyhjanes@googlemail.com.
Please be on the lookout for “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder,” an original quilt by Patty Muller. It was last seen on May 28, 2011 at Ailsa Craig Community, Ontario, Canada. It has been a part of a special exhibit of Dutch quilters. It was discovered missing after the exposition ended and the quilts were packed for transported to the Netherlands.
This quilt is 31.5″ (80 cm) square. The main colors are blue and gray. It is hand pieced cotton that has been hand painted. It also has been stenciled, screen printed, and has silver foil airbrushing. It was made in 2010. It has a label with Patty’s name and email address.
If you find this quilt, please contact Patty at marloesvanrees@hotmail.com.
