Quilt-jacking - spread the word
 

From Bonnie at Quiltville:

"Dear everyone ----

I don't often send announcement like this one, but a quilt has gone missing after the Houston show, and still has not been found.

I'd love your help in locating this quilt if possible.

For more info, I've written about it -- and shown a picture of the missing quilt -- here: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/...-word-out.html

Thanks for your help in getting the word out. Please feel free to forward this blog post to your email lists and quilting friends --

We need to find this quilt!

Bonnie"

Here's hoping it's just misplaced and will soon find its way home.

:(Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!

I so hope this quilt finds its way back to the maker! Its just awful when this happens. I am sure some will rethink sharing their fabulous quilts , thinking that this could happen to them.

Thank you for posting this - I put it on my facebook page. I hope she gets it back.

Janet

I hope the quilt gets recovered, it is a stunning quilt and I am sure the owner is just beside herself. Thanks for posting it here!

That quilt is drop-dead gorgeous. I hope it is found and returned.

Nasty, nasty person. I hope it finds its way home.

This is a beautiful quilt. Hope you are able to recover it!

That is a beautiful and unusual quilt, surley someone will recognize it and return it.

This is such sad news. Hope someone is able to find it and return it to Bonnie.

That is a gorgeous quilt and IMO would be a one of a kind. So...if the person who took it tries to show it I would hope SOMEONE would recognize it.

Off quilting topic...but in the past 2 weeks our local news has been showing a video of a woman who goes into places that are collecting money for a family that their little girl has cancer and she "lifts" the huge jars...they look like those big barrel pretzel jars. Every video showed that the jar was FULL of money. You can see her face plain as day too but so far they haven't had any clue as to who she is. It's strange that she knows the shops that are collecting. One is a really nice upscale gift shop and another was at an auto dealer...so there isn't a pattern to say...all auto dealers or all gift shops. Oh...the other was a florist.

Horrible to say but I sure hope the money buys her nothing but grief.

What a gorgeous quilt- I hope it is found - will keep my fingers crossed -Did I read correctly, are there 2 quilts missing from that show? -

What an awful thing to happen. If it is not misplaced and doesn't find it's way home (which is what I'm hoping will happen) what does the thief think they can do with it? Can't show it. Shouldn't show it to anyone - they might know about it being stolen. A lowlife for sure.

I have had two quilts go missing - one after a car wreck where we were taken to the ER and the car was towed. Had a lot of quilts in the car, didnt notice one was missing til we unpacked everything.

The other was on consignment in a shop, the shop owner tried to tell me someone must have stolen it - a full size bed quilt!! Not exactly something you can tuck in your purse. She finally paid us for it after we talked about small claims court. No more consignment after that - that was the frosting on the cake of many years of consignment misery.

Neither one was as gorgeous or unique as the lovely quilt with the flowers. I hope it is found.

I'll post on facebook

So sad; that is a beautiful quilt. It should be easy to identify though, because it is so unusual.

Someone that steals a quilt will give it as a gift to someone that has no idea there is a big quilt community or even that quilting is so big on the internet. They will think the quilt was bought from a quilt store. Believe it or not there are millions that have no clue there is a whole separate world of quilts and quilters. If it was stolen it will be in the mail more then likely to another country, sent as a gift. :thumbdown:

I just saw this announcement on The Quilt Show web site too. Between the Quiltingboard and TQS a lot of people will be on the alert. Hopefully it will turn up soon. It's an awful feeling when you lose something so precious.

I know your pain. Our group did a quilt honoring the Twin Towers. It was hanging from the ceiling in a fabric shop when it was stolen. Never recovered.

So sorry this has happened. Pray you get it back. One thing I would do is micro chip any quilt you ship,show or is of any value. I think that would also be a wise investment for insurance purposes. Please spread the word. It would help law enforcement in recovery also. Only you would know where it is . Also so in invisible thread a code you can identify your quilt .

Ladies lets help her find this quilt.

How terrible! It is a beautiful quilt and so awful that someone would take it. I hope who ever it was has the decency to give it back to its rightful owner.

Not the first time this has happened. Marti Michell had one stolen several years ago from her display at the Houston
show. I certainly don't understand people that do that!

It sure is a beautiful quilt, Hope they get it back. If someone actually stole it they must also think it is so beautiful and the owner of the quilt should forgive them. and I know that will be difficult.

awww such a beautifull quilt....i sure hope it is found...i would be so upset if it was mine!

I agree with the microchip put into the quilt. If they can put them in dogs and cats to find the owners when they turn up missing--should be able to do that with something as valuable as a quilt. This was a beautiful one also. hope was just shipped to wrong person, but highly doubtful. Pray and hope they find it.

I am always amazed when a quilt goes missing. What do people think when they take it? I am hoping the quilt finds it's way home.

I have seen notification of this quilt gone missing on another site. What a terrible thing to happen. All that work and someone chose to just take it! Hope that it is recovered and in good shape. Where are the "quilt police" when you need them!

Maybe they need something like the stores use and if they try to go out the door, a buzzer goes off!

I will never understand how ppl can feel good with something that is not theirs.
I wonder if they ever think, even once, about the pain they cause by stealing.
I do believe what goes around, comes around, so I hope they think about it then.
It would be wonderful for it not to be so,...but....
geesh! they must be a quilter. They could have made one! tsk! tsk!

This is sickening. Looks like nothing is safe anymore or anywhere. That quilt needs to be at home not in some thief's house. If this can happen in the Houston quilt show then it can happen at any other show. Very, very scary.
I know what happened to one of my prized quilts at a local fair and believe me I would never enter another one anywhere. It came back to me torn, decorations hanging torn and torn off and with a lot of oil on it. The judge complained on the back of the Third Place ribbon about the condition of the quilt. While I called to complain that it did not leave my hands like that I could not reach anyone. I feel so sorry for this lady.

Beautiful quilt. I sure hope it shows up.

Oh, I am so sorry that happened to you!
I've entered a lot of shows, and never once did I feel that they didn't take care of my quilt, but I'm not sure I would trust the local county fair to take as good care.

Janet

What a treasure to loose. So sorry- will pass the message toquilting friends

I am so sorry for your loss. What I can't figure out is how someone steals something a big as a quilt and in such a public place. At these large quilt shows, are the owners required to let others display and remove their quilts? Is there anyway to know exactly when in the process the quilt went missing? It just seems like the quilts turn up missing too often. Sure hope you get it back.

I saw this same notice on Facebook from one of the quilt magazines. Whoever has it better not display it, it wil surely be recognized. Hope you find it.

If box stores and clothing stores can attach electronic anti-theft devices without harming clothing perhaps it's time to try this on exhibited quilts.

This is the 2nd "LOST" quilt from this show posted here today?? what the heck? or is this a scam??

I sure hope it is found!!! I am so sorry to think that there is someone who would do such a thing. Maybe it was accidently given to the wrong person on pickup day and they will notice. So sorry this happened!