How Do Quilts Become Missing?
- How Do Quilts Become Missing?
Stolen from a vehicle (car, van, U-Haul, etc.). Large green swags on the border. Stolen from home (or nursing home, storage space, etc.). Blue Skies over a Parched Land in their Caravan. Lost/dropped in a public area (hotel, restaurant, airport, park, zoo, etc.). Her husband packed up precious possessions accumulated during forty years of marriage and stored them in a utility trailer. Stolen from a public area (airport, park, etc.). Tragically, the suitcase never arrived. Hand appliquéd and called “World Without End.” Lost by someone else (friend, dry cleaner, etc.). The face of Christ was hand painted and his hair was embroidered. She used some of his favorite T-shirts that he had outgrown. Missing from relative’s estate (the heads of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Evelyn). [End Page 258] The maker embroidered the names and dates of different red schoolhouses that she found as she and Barbara’s grandfather took Sunday drives in the country. Manner of Missing Unknown. Last seen during May 2004 in a 1996 Buick Century. Manner of missing unknown (Marie specifically remembers this in the hot pink sashing). Missing from a round-robin exchange (She was a very private person and cautious about what she revealed to people). Thrown or given away (very bright colors and hot pink tips). Lost in Tornado (At that time she began having daily help with meal preparation and housekeeping). Quantity and How Lost. In a fit of anger at an ex-girlfriend, her son gave the quilt away to a stranger. The label said something like this. Dawn is looking for a crib quilt that her youngest child threw in the trash without her knowledge. (Her other son is crushed.) How do quilts become missing. Nancie’s ex-husband gave away all of her belongings including this quilt. How do quilts become missing. Apparently she lost the storage unit in fall 2005. [End Page 259] How do quilts become missing. Cheri’s ex-husband threw it away in a dumpster behind the Century 21 office. How do quilts become missing. I don’t use my real name on the web, but would reveal it to someone who knows about the quilt. [End Page 260]
Jen Tynes lives in Denver, Colorado, and is an editor of horse less press. She is the author of the following books, chapbooks, and collaborations: Found in Nature (horse less press, 2004); The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press, 2005); The Ohio System, with Erika Howsare (Octopus Books, 2006); See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press, 2007); and Heron/Girlfriend (forthcoming, Coconut Books, 2008).
