Angela Watanabe is asking for help locating a quilt which she made for her 8 year old granddaughter. The quilt was mailed from Blaine, Washington on July 27, 2010 and the empty box arrived in Tempe, Arizona on August 12, 2010. This is a twin size quilt, 66″ by 87″. The main colors are aqua, pink, lime green, and white. It is machine pieced and machine quilted. Angela just finished … Continue reading
Angelina S. Carter’s Dutch Girl quilt was last seen at Wurtsmith Air Force Base during January 1991 when it was being packed into a moving box. Her mother made this full-size quilt for her in 1974 when she was seven years old. It is possible that the quilt may have been seen in Bayonne, New Jersey by anybody at the moving company where crates would have been loaded up onto … Continue reading
Marlene Peterson is looking for a Sunflower Stack and Whack quilt that went missing during a move. It was last seen in 2005 in Web City, Missouri. This queen size quilt is mainly yellow, green, and orange and features sunflower fabrics. It is machine pieced and machine quilted and has some embroidery. The label says, “From the heart and hand of Grandma Peterson, Sunflower Stack and Whack, to Angelique Peterson.” … Continue reading
In 1986 Cathy Sisk McCoy made the Christmas Angel pattern found in Better Homes & Gardens Christmas Traditions. It is a quilt made entirely of 2-inch squares and has a red eyelet border. The finished height is about 10-12 feet. It is machine pieced and machine quilted. This quilt was last seen in 1989 or 1990 at St. Rita Catholic Church, Fort Worth, Texas. It was removed from the storage … Continue reading
Karen Smith is hoping to recover a Christmas Advent Calendar that she made. It became missing during their move to Texas with the military in November 2007. Their household goods were moved by the a company contracted with the military from Clarksville, Tennessee (Fort Campbell) held in San Antonio, Texas for six months, and then sent to San Angelo, Texas. The last time it was seen, it was in a … Continue reading
On November 17, 2007 Dorothy Coulter gave her best friend this quilt for her 40th birthday. She opened the gift at Dorothy’s home in Morgan Hill, California. Then she put it in her car and drove to Oakridge Mall. After Oakridge, they went to the Marriott in downtown San Jose and had the valets park the car. The next day, the quilt was no where to be found. They returned … Continue reading
Janet Avants found a signature quilt top while cleaning out her grandfather’s house after he recently passed away. None of the names on the quilt are family, and no one in the family recognizes the names as friends or acquaintances, so they decided to try to find who it might belong to. The quilt was discovered in 2006 in San Angelo, Texas. It is about 71" by 79". There are … Continue reading
This orange Lone Star wallhanging was left behind at the Spring Quilt Market in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May, 2006. It is made with bright colors and the corner blocks are pieced with gold. On August 14, 2007, Mark Lipinski wrote, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT BUT SOMEONE FOUND MY QUILT AND YOUR WEBSITE HELPED ME GET IT BACK!!! I’m in shock. I don’t know what ever made me check your site … Continue reading
Sometime during April 2006, this Denim Log Cabin quilt disappeared from Angela Fields’s belongings near Pittsburg, California. It was made by Naomi Buschhaus in 2004 out of recycled denim jeans. The quilt consists of twelve squares, about 14″ each, so the finished size of the quilt is about 42″ by 56″. The quilt is backed with two light blue bath towels (see picture below) and it has no batting. Each … Continue reading
Deb Loewen is hoping to recover her son’s Angel Quilt, which was last seen in Landmark, Manitoba, Canada on April 19, 2004. Deb writes, “This quilt belongs to a very high medical needs child who went through an extremely traumatic time last summer which was when the quilt went missing. To say he misses it is a vast understatement!!” The quilt was lost through a child agency error. The pink, … Continue reading
