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Dresden Plate Baby Quilt

In 1998, Debra Roberts found a crib-size, Dresden-style baby quilt in Catoosa, Oklahoma in the Catoosa School's football parking lot after a game. At the time she contacted the daycare that was across the street from the school, but no one recognized it. She also left word at the school's administration office but, again, no one claimed it. The quilt was even left on the fence next to the parking lot for a day after it was found. Debra rescued it when the grounds crew was going to throw it away. The quilt was stained and had some minor tears. Debra has always hoped that somehow the rightful owner could be found.

This quilt is 43" by 56" and has twelve 11" squares. It has a white background and uses pink and blue flower-printed fabrics that are the same print but just different colors. It has white edging, pink borders and sashing, and blue cornerstones.

Please contact Debra through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if this might be your quilt.

Reported January 28, 2008.

Butterfly quilt

Anna Haislip found a butterfly quilt about seven years ago. It was on the interstate right outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Please contact Anna Haislip through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if this might be your quilt.

Reported November 30, 2007.

Two British Columbia Quilts

Tabi has found two quilts in a barrel wrapped in plastic in Chemainus, British Columbus on Vancouver Island. She is hoping to return them to their rightful owner. The quilts are currently at the local police station and a picture was run in the local paper.

She thinks these are Mennonite quilts. One is blue and white squares. There are women's names and embroidered flowers in the white squares, along with a psalm. The second quilt is light blue and white. It is also embroidered with women's names and flowers/birds in the white squares. Unfortunately, it is difficult to read most of the names.

Please contact Tabi through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page if you have any information about these quilts.

Reported April 2, 2007.

Butterfly Quilt

Carol Stroud purchased this quilt top on Ebay. The seller said she got it at a church rummage sale in Arizona. It was signed and Carol hated to see it go to waste. She purchased in and has given it a nice home, but she would love to return it if any of the families are interested in getting it back. Carol feels like if it had been her mother who made one of the blocks, that she would love having it back in her own family.

The quilt is made of twenty 14" squares with appliqued butterflies. All of the blocks are signed. The names include Pruitt, Hendrix, Carpenter, McEven, Ray, and Carter. Carol finished the quilt because she couldn't stand knowing it was incomplete.

If you can help return this quilt to its rightful owner, please contact Carol Stroud through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Reported March 2, 2007.

Solivita Quilters

Linda is looking for the owners of this patriotic quilt. It was found in Orlando, Florida on the side of the highway. The quilt is red, white, and blue and features a fabric with patriotic smiley faces.

The label (shown below) says, "A gift from the Solivita Quilters 2005." This group frequently make quilts for underprivileged children and lap quilts for the Veterans' Hospital

If you know who this quilt belongs to, please contact Linda through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Reported February 24, 2007.

Florida Estate Sale Quilt

Marian Garber is hoping to find the owner of a quilt she bought at an estate sale. It had been left with a person near Valdosta, Georgia by the name of Dee Young (and Dee's mother) to be hand quilted. The mother passed away and Dee left. The quilt is 80 percent quilted. Marian knows the owner is from Florida, probably Northern Florida.

If this quilt belongs to you, you can have it for what Marian paid for it at the estate sale. Contact Marian at mmgarber@bellsouth.net to identify it.

Reported October 17, 2006.

Orange Lone Star

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 after this quilt had gone missing almost 2 years ago! It's amazing. In any event, THIS quilt has been found and returned to me this week. I'm speechless (and am writing an article about it).

Reported August 11, 2006. Updated August 17, 2007.

Signature Quilt Top

Janet Avants found this 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 acquaintences, 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 five rows of four blocks each, set on point. Each block is a patchwork of print and white fabric. The prints are all different. The background fabric is a pastel teal. A couple of the blocks include the date 1942, but the fabric seems to be from a later date. It is machine pieced. Names on the quilt are:

• The Turner's
• Anna Colvin
• Margie and Harry Mifflin
• Ben & Nadine
• Lois Colvin
• Hartmann
• Ollie Mae
• Betty Warren
• Mrs. Otis Brackin 1942
• Mr & Mrs Victor Bruderer
• Alva & Bill Blackerby
• Lyn B. Willoughby
• The Brays
• The SA Blackerby's
• Mr & Mrs. GE Teel
• George Phillips/Blanch Phillips
• Gilbert's Joe Shaws Mrs. J.W./ Ruth & Jerry McMains 1942 Sue Welch

Happily, in September 2007 this quilt was given to the family of Mrs. Otis Brackin. The family knew several of the other people on the list as well. Suzi Brackin Campbell wrote, "This was like a miracle to us and Janet is an angel."

Reported August 11, 2006. Updated September 27, 2007.

Scottie Dog Patchwork Quilt

Sandra Lee Hawkins bought this quilt at a thrift store and is hoping to find its owner or someone from the family that may have owned it. This king-size quilt is hand stitched. Each big square has a scottie dog in the middle. All of the squares are different colors and each dog is different. Sandra Lee feels this is a great heirloom that should be handed down and cherished.

If this quilt belongs to you and you can identify specific markings, please contact Sandra Lee at dimples_4259@yahoo.com.

Reported February 27, 2006.

Blue Gingham and Calico

On February 9, 2006, Donna Stenneche found a blue gingham and calico quilt with hand applique and hand quilting. She would like to return it to its owner, but there are no identification markings.

A news story was done about this quilt in an attempt find the owner. If this quilt belongs to you, please contact Donna through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page to identify it.

Reported March 7, 2006.

Meryl Ann Butler found a small flannel Christmas quilt in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday, October 2, 2005. It was found in the middle of Price Road. It is made of fringed squares.

If this is your quilt, please contact Meryl Ann through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page to identify it.

Reported October 13, 2005.

J. Tucker has found a 46" by 72" quilt with a peach border. It has four blocks across and five blocks down. Each block has three flowers on one stem that splits. Each flower is made of three different prints. The fabric prints appear to be a very old style. Each block has four signatures, with a total of 84 names. This quilt was found about twenty years ago in Monre, North Carolina.

For more information, please contact J. Tucker through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Reported April 8, 2005.

Netti Harblin is looking for the owners of two quilts. One is a Sunbonnet Sue, trimmed in light blue. It has varied colors and prints on Sue's clothing. The second is a wool coverlet, about 60" wide. It is done in very dark colors with pink cross stitching. The patches are randomly cut. The backing and sashing is brown with red stripes. It is hand tied and very heavy.

If either of these quilts sound familiar, please contact Netti through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Reported February 16, 2005.

Mona Lisa Quilt

In the summer of 1996, while in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, a gentleman found a delightfully made quilt stuffed into a black plastic bag next to the Wansbeck River. It is a quilt based on the Mona Lisa, made mostly of brown and black irregular pieces of material. It seems rather old, perhaps from the 1950's or 1960's. On the inside of the quilt you can just about make out the name, "Jane Mann."

This person has spent the last seven years trying to find the owner of this quilt. If this quilt sounds familiar to you, please contact him through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Reported December 2, 2004.

Recovered!

Blue and White Quilt

A blue and white quilt was found in a black plastic bag in a car being emptied to a tow truck company in northern Virginia (Fairfax County) prior to resale.

Happily, this quilt has been reunited with its rightful owner!

Reported July 13, 2004. Updated August 12, 2004.

Family Pictures Quilt

During April 2003, Jackie DeLage found a quilt on the corner of Mississippi and Garrison in Lakewood, Colorado. She assumes it fell off a truck while someone was moving. The quilt is about 72" by 72". It is machine pieced and machine quilted and features family pictures on a white background. The main colors are white, pastel pink, and blue. The design consists of overlapping circles with the pictures in the middle. It does not have a label.

For more information, please contact Jackie through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Posted May 21, 2004.

36 Signature Blocks

Molly Lamrouex recently found 36 signature blocks at a flea sale in Mason, Michigan. The blocks appear to have been completed from 1940 through 1945 in Venice, California. Molly is interested in learning more about any of the quilters, the group, or the pattern.

Three blocks are blank, the others have penciled or embroidered names. The following is a list of names from the blocks:

If you can shed any light on this mystery, please contact Molly Lamrouex through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.

Posted April 1, 2004.

Hawaiian Applique Wallhanging

This 42" by 42" wallhanging has features teal applique on a beige background. It was left at the Dreamcrafters Quilt Shop around Summer of 2001 in a bag with two other items.

Please contact the Dreamcrafters Quilt Shop at dreamquilt@aol.com for more information.

Posted January 22, 2004.

Pinwheel Quilt

On Friday, July 11, 2003 a pinwheel quilt was found in the middle of a road in Brandon, Florida. It is 72" by 78" and is in very poor condition. It looks like it was probably well worn before it was run over by many cars. It is a pinwheel pattern with teal sashing and borders and pink cornerstones. It has cotton batting and no label or other identifying marks.

Marilyn says, "Perhaps it was on it's way to a Goodwill collection point, which is right around the corner from where it was found. I will be willing to return it to it's rightful owner. It seems a shame to use it as a doggy blanket when someone went to the trouble to hand quilt it."

If this might be your quilt, please contact Marilyn at wynnwood@worldnet.att.net.

Posted July 18, 2003.

Recovered!

Found American Sampler Cross Stitch Quilt

Barb Stover of Berrien Springs, Michigan needed help in solving this mystery. Her mom got a phone call from Debra Grant of North Charleston, South Carolina. Someone had driven through Debra's neighborhood during December 2002 with a basket on top of the car. It fell off and she recovered it. She found an American Sampler Cross-Stitch quilt top along with one of Barb's brother's business cards. Debra called the phone number on the business card hoping to locate the owner of the quilt top but the mystery was still unsolved.

Barb went into action. She contacted her local newspaper, the Hearld Palladium in Benton Harbor, Michigan. They printed the story and the very next day the owner of the missing quilt top, Reatha Coon, called. She had been on her way to Florida when she stopped to visit her grandson in South Carolina. When it came up missing, she thought she left it in Benton Harbor. After several months in Florida, she was dismayed to find out that the quilt was not at home like she thought. Reatha is 80 years young and now that the quilt top has been recovered she plans on finishing it.

Originally posted April 25, 2003. Updated May 9, 2003.

Found Appliqued Quilt and Hand-Tied Quilt

Cora Shannon has found two quilts and she is looking for their rightful owner(s).

The first quilt she found was a beautifully executed, appliqued quilt that is about 90" by 110". It is hand appliqued, hand pieced and hand quilted. The main colors are brown and bright orange. Cora says, "I think someone was trying to enter this one in a contest because it is all hand done and block off in panel." Cora found this quilt at a Goodwill Store in Memphis, Tennessee.

A few weeks later she found a hand-tied quilt in the same place. It is full size and may be made by the same person because it uses the same lining as the applique quilt. It is hand-tied instead of hand quilted. All the blocks are sunny yellow and bright orange with calico blocks separating them.

For more information about these quilts, please contact Cora at CShannon@CLEOWRAP.com.

Posted October 25, 2002. Updated December 6, 2002.

Found Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Three years ago Deb McCall rescued an unclaimed quilt from a dry cleaners in Pinellas County, Florida. The laundrymat owner said it had been unclaimed for over a year. Then, shortly after she was given the quilt, the owner came looking for it but the laundrymat owner didn't tell them how to reach Deb. Deb says, "I WANT to FIND the owner and return it!...It is 'bothering' me that I have a family heirloom possibly and would love to return it once the person identifies where they left it to be cleaned, etc."

The quilt is a queen-sized Double Wedding Ring. It has a white background and the rings are a small pastel print with light blue, pale green, light pink and yellow. The intersecting blocks are light blue. It is hand pieced, hand appliqued, and hand quilted. It does not have a label.

Posted November 14, 2002.

Found T-shirt Quilt

On July 4, 2002 a package fell off the back of a truck driving south on I-15 in Utah (Utah County). The driver of the truck did not notice it fall. The person driving behind this truck rescued it off the interstate. The package contained two quilts. One comforter was solid pink. It was damaged beyond repair and feathers were flying everywhere. The second one was a handmade quilt using t-shirts. The shirts have military and wrestling themes. Some t-shirts seem to be from Alaska. There is also a Desert Storm t-shirt. The family that rescued this quilt watched the local papers for any lost ads, but did not see any.

For more information about this quilt, please contact snipis@hotmail.com.

Posted October 14, 2002.

Found Double Wedding Ring Quilt

During 2000 Barbara P. purchased a double wedding ring quilt on the internet. She was told it was from a consignment shop. The story she was told is that the quilt was the first quilt made by a young woman. She sold it to the shop, but then her family urged her to get it back. When she returned a short time later to redeem it, the quilt had already been sold. Later, however, the consignment shop got the quilt back when the new owner did not complete payment, but then they could not locate the quiltmaker. Eventually it was sold on E-Bay. The quilt was probably made in the 1960s or early 1970s. If this quilt might belong to you, contact Barbara with the state where the store was located and a description of the quilt. Barbara says she would gladly return the quilt in return for the nominal fee she paid for it.

For more information, please contact Barbara P. at eagle77@quixnet.net.

Posted July 18, 2002.

Found Crazy Quilt

Charlene Sabin recently purchased a partially finished Victorian crazy quilt from an antique store in Portland, Oregon. Since it includes some personal momentos and identifying initials, she is interested in possibly finding the family who made it.

Because the quilt includes a ribbon that says "Peebles Schools" she suspects it came from Ohio. There is the name "ELLA" on one part as well as initials in other areas of the quilt. There is a small embroidered flag. The center fo the quilt is pieced with small triangles and is different from the other squares. Some of the quilt top is in poor condition, but the backing is in good condition and has brown flowers.

For more information, please contact Charlene at sabin@hevanet.com.

Posted May 29, 2002.

Texas Quilt Top

In 2001 Patti N. was in the JoAnn's fabric store in Conroe, Texas where she commented on a beautiful quilt top that was on the cutting table. She was told it had been left there by a customer. The quilt top now hangs in the store and is advertised as a "lost and found" item. Patti would like to see that quilt top reunited with its rightful owner.

For more information, please contact Patti at Mystarr@aol.com.

Posted May 29, 2002.

Wall Hanging Found in Midland, Texas

In May of 2002 Charlotte Massey reported that she found a wall hanging near the airport in Midland, Texas.

For more information, please contact Charlotte at charli4321@yahoo.com.

Posted May 29, 2002.

Middle Eastern Quilt

Estelle Guizar has acquired a quilt which she believes may be a family heirloom. It was found in Gilroy, California. The quilt seems to have Middle Eastern influence. It is about 72" by 96". The colors range from darks to pastels. The focal point looks like Chinese checkers framed by eternity symbols and script. The center of the quilt has a six-petal, yellow flower with an embroidered green center. It is hand pieced, hand appliqued and hand quilted. Estelle estimates it was made about 15-25 years ago. The quilt also has a label with Middle Eastern script.

For more information, please contact Estelle at irishapache@nethere.com.

Posted April 18, 2002.