I went to a local quilt shop and was looking at all the bolts of a fabrics when i overheard the LAQ saying that a guy found three hand quilted quilts on the side of the road.. He brought them to her to fix and gave her one for all her work!!!! I turned around and quickly joined the conversation and stated that there are places online (NAMELY THIS BOARD!!) to post such a huge loss to someone.. That the owner is probably sick with worry about her priceless family heirlooms.. It sickens me that People need to be told the right thing to do.. How annoying!!!! I doubt it will be posted for owner to be located.. What a shame..

Some people are so thoughtless, and the LAQ should have known better too - quilts have a value, and should have been handed in as lost property.

That is sad, but at least he took them to be repaired. The could've ended up as oil rags in his garage.

In what area were the quilts found?

Janet

In the LAQ's defense... I never had any idea there were such things as lost quilt alert websites UNTIL I discovered this board. Prior to this I couldn't begin to know how to find the owners short of checking lost and found ads.

All to often unknowing people use quilts to wrap furniture in when moving. How many of us have seen that happen? I have seen it countless times on any given highway or byway I have travelled. People who treat the quilts this way usually don't give a damn that they lost the quilt as long as their precious IKEA book case didn't get a bug splat on it.

Prior to discovering QB if I found quilts on the side of the road and did not see any one looking for them via lost and found ads in the local paper I would have thought nothing to repair them and keep them or donate them. Now I do know better and would post a photo here or on lost quilts or quilters cache. Not everyone out there is as internet savvy as we.

I am not sure where the quilts were found. I didn't get much details..

OMG Janet, I hadn't even thought of that!!! Still no word from UPS?

Janet has a lost quilt! What state are you in?? hers was lost leaving Colorado so anyplace between NY and Colorado could mean her quilt fell off some UPS truck!!

Good point, but she did say they were in a box that probably fell out of the moving vehicle.. truck bed perhaps.. And there were three quilts in the box.. The LAQ is located in MO..

I'm still in limbo. UPS did their search, and they're pretty sure they don't have the quilt. So it's he said/she said...the shipper says they shipped it, but UPS has no record. I think UPS bent over backwards in their search.

It wouldn't have been with other quilts, though.

Janet

Before we jump to conclusions, we should know the whole story. I choose not to believe the worst case scenario without giving the benefit of the doubt first :D:D:D

Were the quilts found with junk/garbage, giving the impression they were being thrown out? This does happen more often than we would like to hear about.

Did this gentleman try and find the owners first?

AND let's not forget that instead of throwing them away as junk, he did take them somewhere to be repaired.

Maybe the LQS chose to help, because of the way that he did find them. They felt it was ok to be involved because they knew the whole circumstance :D:D:D

Quilterscache.com has a lost quilt section too. crafty_linda_b

thats so sad!

You would think that the LA would have done the right thing and posted them on the lost quilts web site.