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Recovered! Wolf Pack Graduate

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Wolf Pack Graduate by Denise Schaefer

Wolf Pack Graduate by Denise Schaefer

Denise Schaefer made a quilt for graduation present for Tyler Jenkins. The quilt, Wolf Pack Graduate, was made using a commercial pattern from a Connecting Threads book.

The quilt was shipped on June 5, 2007 from Auburn, Washington, but it wasn’t delivered as expected. Things seemed hopeless when the shipping company could no longer follow the tracking number. Apparently the label had been torn off in transit. Fortunately, the box was sent to the shipping company recovery warehouse. After three weeks, it was opened and the shipping company employee found the business card of the woman who quilted it and they returned it to her. She drove for four hours to deliver Denise’s quilt in person.

This navy, crimson, and white quilt is 92″ square. She used Fairie Frost White and Martin Miller Modas. It is machine pieced and machine quilted.


Vintage Cars

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Vintage Cars by Laura Cain

Vintage Cars by Laura Cain

Laura Cain hopes to recover the “Vintage Cars” quilt she made for her step-son, Tim Cain. Laura made the quilt as a Christmas present for Tim in 1983. He had left it folded up in a hide-a-bed sofa that was placed in a storage unit. Eventually the contents were sold because the rent was not paid. He didn’t tell his parents until after everything got sold off sometime around 1985 in Eugene, Oregon.

This quilt is a generous queen size. It is mainly white and features vintage car blocks painted with Tri-Chem ball point paints. Laura used commercial designs by “Aunt Martha’s.” It includes a Cathedral Window print and navy blue sashing.

Please contact Laura through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Apple Core Quilt

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On September 18, 2003 Rebecca Payan’s car was stolen. Her Apple Core quilt was in the car at the time, and it was never recovered.

This maroon and black quilt is 60″ by 60″. The backing is black, and there is one place on the back where the quilt was mended with navy blue thread. It was made in 1989.

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

Navy Blue Grandmothers Flower Garden

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Deborah Highley made a navy blue Grandmothers Flower Garden for her son. He took it with him to the army base in North Carolina. It was last seen sometime around 1995 when his girlfriend took it. This is a full-size quilt. It uses all colors, but the set up between the blocks is navy blue. It is hand pieced and hand quilted.

Please contact Deborah at itzychihuahua@aol.com if you’ve seen this quilt.

Twin Size Scrappy Nine Patch

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Patrice Stafford hopes to recover a quilt that was stolen from her boyfriend’s car around 1992-1993. The car was a 1977 Chevy Nova and was located on 64th Street in Sacramento, California. The quilt is a twin size, scrappy nine patch with light blue sashing. It has a navy rose print at the posts and a navy blue border. It was enveloped and tied with navy blue yarn. The nine patches were made from left over calico fabric from scraps of skirts from the early 1980’s. Patrice thinks the fabrics came from Cloth World in Oxnard, California.

If you’e seen a quilt that fits this description, please contact Patrice at k5blazer@pacbell.net.

Hearts

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Rebecca Dakan would like to recover a 30" square quilt that she made in 1990. It was last seen during July 1995 in Santa Cruz, California. It was tacked to the wall when their house was for sale. One day it was removed from the wall and stolen.

This quilt has a center panel with sixteen hearts (four across and four down). The hearts are in dark reds, navy blues, and tan. Their is a small border in tan dots on red, and a slightly larger border of navy blue with little ivory stylized flowers, and another larger border in dark red with an ivory diagonal design. The final border is more hearts which formed the selvage of the original fabric. Rebecca pieced them together to form a full border on all sides. This was the first quilt that Rebecca hand quilted.

Please contact Rebecca at rdakan@pacbell.net if you have found this quilt.

Recovered! World War II Quilts

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Navy Insignia Quilt

Navy Insignia Quilt

Navy Insignia Quilt

On August 17, Sue Reich asked for help locating four missing World War II Quilts. Sue found out that these quilts went missing between 12:30 and 3:30 AM on August 11 at the shipping company’s facility in Keasbey, New Jersey. The quilts were at the Asheville Quilt Show in Asheville, North Carolina on August 6-8 2010. Four trunks of quilts were shipped back to Sue in New Jersey. Three of the four trunks returned home safely. Sadly, the fourth trunk was delivered empty. There were four World War II quilts in that trunk, along with a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt which Sue used as a table cover.

On August 18, Sue received a call from Brenda S. from the FedEx Customer Service Center in Memphis, TN. Sue wrote, “Brenda has the most heavenly voice I have ever heard. Brenda told me early on the Wednesday morning she received a call from someone in the quilt world who preferred to remain anonymous. This person told Brenda about the quilts and their importance, beseeching her to help find them. Brenda told me she was so moved that she made it her mission to find the quilts. Sometime in the afternoon, the quilts were delivered in an unmarked cardboard box to a FedEx facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. (FedEx’s lost and found items either go to Memphis or Salt Lake City.) The box arrived with no tracking number making it impossible to trace. Sharon at the Salt Lake facility didn’t even have them cataloged yet but she sent Brenda a picture, and Brenda called me to confirmed the identity of at least one of the quilts.”

On August 19, Sue was thrilled that the quilts were all safely returned! They had been overnighted to her from Salt Lake City, and they arrived at 11:30 AM. Sue writes, “Words cannot express my gratitude to the quilt world for helping to find these quilts. It took a Quilt APB to locate them but it worked. Congratulations to all of you and specifically to the very special person who interceded in my behalf. This experience has convinced me that I need to continue to share these quilts because of their historic importance.”

Night Shift Worker's Quilt Canadian Red Cross Quilt All of these quilts were made between 1941 and 1945, and they all have Sue’s name and address on hanging sleeves.

Night Shift Worker’s Quilt is an original quilt that is 68″ by 78.5″. The main colors are red, white, and blue. It is made of home dec fabrics and silks that read, “Quiet Please Night Shift Worker Sleeping, Thank You.” It is machine pieced and hand quilted.

Canadian Red Cross Quilt is a wholecloth quilt that is 63.5″ by 72″. It is made from four feed sacks sewn together. It is hand pieced and hand quilted. The main color is blue.

Navy Insignia Quilt is a 64″ by 88″ quilt made of Navy insignia patches. It is machine pieced and machine quilted.

Hazleton Fund Raising Quilt is 66″ by 84″. The main colors are white, white, and red. It is hand embroidered with hundreds of names. This quilt was made in 1942-1943.

If you there is anything you can do for the recovery if these quilts, please contact Sue at suereich@charter.net.

Pink, Navy, and Tan Ohio Star Quilt

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Ohio Star by Teresa Fusco

Ohio Star by Teresa Fusco

Ohio Star by Teresa Fusco

Teresa Fusco of Reading, Pennsylvania was traveling, lecturing, teaching, and exhibiting her work from Washington, DC to Northern New Jersey when she realized this quilt was missing.

The 75″ by 75″ Ohio Star is a beginner’s rotary cutting sample quilt used for teaching. Teresa had just finished the quilting and sleeve, but she doesn’t think it had a label on the quilt yet. The Rotary Cutting Pattern can be found in the book “Block Party”.

The backgrounds are pale pink and tan nine patches and medium pink border triangles. The Border is dark navy blue/black. The visual block design is large Ohio stars in navy and browns with smaller stars in navy tan/browns as the middle blocks. Teresa first noticed the quilt missing in November 1999.

There is a reward for the return of this quilt – no questions asked. If you have any information regarding this quilt, please contact Teresa at teresasquiltstudio@gmail.com.


Snail Trail Quilt

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Dee Gordon reports that the quilt she made for her daughter, Tanya, is missing. It was stolen during a burglary at her daughter’s flat in Waterview, West Auckland, New Zealand. They believe it was used to wrap various electronic goods that were stolen from her flatmates including a large TV, laptop, and sound equipment. It was last seen mid 2009.

This quilt was made for Tanya’s 18th birthday. It is approximately 120 by 180 cm (47 by 70 inches). The main colors are plain lime, a navy, a navy batik, and one fabric that was a wash of lime and navy. It is made using a traditional Snail’s Trail block. This quilt is machine pieced and hand quilted echoing the snail’s trail. On the two long sides, “paua” or New Zealand abalone shells have been hand painted and embroidered. There is a dedication on one side that says “For Tanya, I love you more…” or words to that effect.

If you’ve seen this quilt, please contact Dee at montessoriquiltr@gmail.com.

Recovered! A Quilt for David…Girls are Afraid of Spiders

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Girls are Afraid of Spiders by Jan Cunningham

Girls are Afraid of Spiders by Jan CunninghamJan Cunningham was hoping someone might know the whereabouts of a quilt she made for her grandson’s college dorm room. The quilt was made in 1999 and was last seen in early 2000 in a dorm room at Oxford College in Conyers, Georgia.

A week after the quilt was posted on this website, the strangest thing happened. She got a phone call from a couple who live in Florida, but keep a second home in Georgia. When they went to get out their blankets this year, they found a quilt wrapped in plastic that they had bought at a yard sale a year or so ago. When they unfolded it, they noticed the label with Jan’s name and phone number, so they called her right after Christmas. So now, after being missing for ten years, Jan’s quilt has returned home! It had been washed and was smokey, but otherwise the quilt was in good shape.

Jan called her original design, “A Quilt for David…Girls are Afraid of Spiders.” She made it to keep the girls off her grandson’s bed at college. It is labled with the quilt’s title and a scripture verse.

Girls are Afraid of Spiders (label) by Jan CunninghamThe quilt is about 70″ by 80″. It is a strip pieced quilt with a LeMoyne Star setting. The main colors are navy, burgundy and gold. A large gold colored star features a large stuffed black spider with long embroidered legs along with the words, “Girls are afraid of spiders” embroidered around the spider. The backing of the quilt is a fireworks designed fabric in navy and burgundy with white fireworks.

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