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Nice Quilt Story
This article appeared in yesterday's newspaper. I thought the story was too
nice not to share! kaila ----------------------------------------------------------- Woman, special quilt reunited after a year Nancy Clark-Puffer Special for The Republic Sept. 30, 2004 12:00 AM MESA - All the cynics and naysayers who said Kristi Allen would never find her lost heirloom jean quilt after a year of searching were wrong. On Friday, the 30-year-old Mesa woman was reunited with her beloved jean quilt after a Tempe woman saw the story of her lost quilt in The Arizona Republic. "I couldn't believe it. I could not believe it," Allen said. "When I got to work and they said, 'You've got to call this lady, Debbie, she thinks she found your quilt,' and I about fell over." Debbie Clegg, 52, of Tempe, found Allen's quilt more than a year ago at a camp near Payson and has been storing it in a Rubbermaid bin at her home ever since. "I just can't tell you how I felt when I saw that picture in the paper," Clegg said, referring to the Sept. 20 article that appeared in the Republic's Southeast Valley Monday section. "All you had to do was look at that quilt and you knew that it was just someone's memories, all tied together in this quilt. So it really, really bothered me. "I just kept thinking, what do I do with this quilt? I can't just get rid of it. It was clear that someone had put a lot of work into it. And I just kept thinking someone has to really be sad about this quilt." Indeed, the quilt was a family heirloom made from patches of the blue jeans worn by Allen as a little girl and stitched together by her mother, Lonnie Halls, 53, of Mesa. Allen received the quilt from her mother as a Christmas gift when she was 13. All seven of Allen's siblings also have a one-of-a-kind heirloom jean quilt made by their mother from their own childhood blue jeans. In summer 2003, Clegg served as director for a church camp that met at the same site where Allen had attended a separate church camp two weeks earlier. Another group used the camp in between their two groups. Allen's daughters believed they had packed the quilt in the back of their truck when they left for home, but when they arrived it wasn't there. They thought it must have tumbled out of the truck somewhere along Arizona 87. But the quilt had been left behind at the camp, and someone later brought it to Clegg to figure out whom it belonged to. She decided to just hold on to the quilt for a while, storing it in her exercise room. "I had debated, honestly for a year, because I walk on the treadmill all summer long, and so every day there was that quilt and I thought a million times, and I kept thinking, . . . 'How do you handle this treasure that you feel like someone is looking for and someone is missing?' " On Sept. 20, Clegg began clearing out her exercise room for remodeling. With little time to read the paper that day, she nearly tossed it out but decided to quickly skim over the front pages early next morning. That's when she saw Allen's story and immediately set out to contact her. Four days later, she delivered the quilt to Allen where she works at Dizin Salon in Tempe, just a few blocks from Clegg's home. "This lady has just been hanging on to it. It's crazy. She's just been waiting," Allen said with disbelief. "I was so excited. I just really feel like it was meant to be." |
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Great to see some good news for a change! What a nice lady!
Roberta in D "Sk8eraunt" wrote in message ... This article appeared in yesterday's newspaper. I thought the story was too nice not to share! kaila ----------------------------------------------------------- Woman, special quilt reunited after a year Nancy Clark-Puffer Special for The Republic Sept. 30, 2004 12:00 AM MESA - All the cynics and naysayers who said Kristi Allen would never find her lost heirloom jean quilt after a year of searching were wrong. On Friday, the 30-year-old Mesa woman was reunited with her beloved jean quilt after a Tempe woman saw the story of her lost quilt in The Arizona Republic. "I couldn't believe it. I could not believe it," Allen said. "When I got to work and they said, 'You've got to call this lady, Debbie, she thinks she found your quilt,' and I about fell over." Debbie Clegg, 52, of Tempe, found Allen's quilt more than a year ago at a camp near Payson and has been storing it in a Rubbermaid bin at her home ever since. "I just can't tell you how I felt when I saw that picture in the paper," Clegg said, referring to the Sept. 20 article that appeared in the Republic's Southeast Valley Monday section. "All you had to do was look at that quilt and you knew that it was just someone's memories, all tied together in this quilt. So it really, really bothered me. "I just kept thinking, what do I do with this quilt? I can't just get rid of it. It was clear that someone had put a lot of work into it. And I just kept thinking someone has to really be sad about this quilt." Indeed, the quilt was a family heirloom made from patches of the blue jeans worn by Allen as a little girl and stitched together by her mother, Lonnie Halls, 53, of Mesa. Allen received the quilt from her mother as a Christmas gift when she was 13. All seven of Allen's siblings also have a one-of-a-kind heirloom jean quilt made by their mother from their own childhood blue jeans. In summer 2003, Clegg served as director for a church camp that met at the same site where Allen had attended a separate church camp two weeks earlier. Another group used the camp in between their two groups. Allen's daughters believed they had packed the quilt in the back of their truck when they left for home, but when they arrived it wasn't there. They thought it must have tumbled out of the truck somewhere along Arizona 87. But the quilt had been left behind at the camp, and someone later brought it to Clegg to figure out whom it belonged to. She decided to just hold on to the quilt for a while, storing it in her exercise room. "I had debated, honestly for a year, because I walk on the treadmill all summer long, and so every day there was that quilt and I thought a million times, and I kept thinking, . . . 'How do you handle this treasure that you feel like someone is looking for and someone is missing?' " On Sept. 20, Clegg began clearing out her exercise room for remodeling. With little time to read the paper that day, she nearly tossed it out but decided to quickly skim over the front pages early next morning. That's when she saw Allen's story and immediately set out to contact her. Four days later, she delivered the quilt to Allen where she works at Dizin Salon in Tempe, just a few blocks from Clegg's home. "This lady has just been hanging on to it. It's crazy. She's just been waiting," Allen said with disbelief. "I was so excited. I just really feel like it was meant to be." |
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What a lovely story to start the day. I warms my heart to know that there
are people out there that still do the right thing. It is what I would have done. Linda |
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Nice story and a lesson to all of us to sign and label our quilts!
--Lia Sk8eraunt wrote: ----------------------------------------------------------- Woman, special quilt reunited after a year Nancy Clark-Puffer Special for The Republic Sept. 30, 2004 12:00 AM MESA - All the cynics and naysayers who said Kristi Allen would never find her lost heirloom jean quilt after a year of searching were wrong. On Friday, the 30-year-old Mesa woman was reunited with her beloved jean quilt after a Tempe woman saw the story of her lost quilt in The Arizona Republic. "I couldn't believe it. I could not believe it," Allen said. "When I got to work and they said, 'You've got to call this lady, Debbie, she thinks she found your quilt,' and I about fell over." Debbie Clegg, 52, of Tempe, found Allen's quilt more than a year ago at a camp near Payson and has been storing it in a Rubbermaid bin at her home ever since. "I just can't tell you how I felt when I saw that picture in the paper," Clegg said, referring to the Sept. 20 article that appeared in the Republic's Southeast Valley Monday section. "All you had to do was look at that quilt and you knew that it was just someone's memories, all tied together in this quilt. So it really, really bothered me. "I just kept thinking, what do I do with this quilt? I can't just get rid of it. It was clear that someone had put a lot of work into it. And I just kept thinking someone has to really be sad about this quilt." Indeed, the quilt was a family heirloom made from patches of the blue jeans worn by Allen as a little girl and stitched together by her mother, Lonnie Halls, 53, of Mesa. Allen received the quilt from her mother as a Christmas gift when she was 13. All seven of Allen's siblings also have a one-of-a-kind heirloom jean quilt made by their mother from their own childhood blue jeans. In summer 2003, Clegg served as director for a church camp that met at the same site where Allen had attended a separate church camp two weeks earlier. Another group used the camp in between their two groups. Allen's daughters believed they had packed the quilt in the back of their truck when they left for home, but when they arrived it wasn't there. They thought it must have tumbled out of the truck somewhere along Arizona 87. But the quilt had been left behind at the camp, and someone later brought it to Clegg to figure out whom it belonged to. She decided to just hold on to the quilt for a while, storing it in her exercise room. "I had debated, honestly for a year, because I walk on the treadmill all summer long, and so every day there was that quilt and I thought a million times, and I kept thinking, . . . 'How do you handle this treasure that you feel like someone is looking for and someone is missing?' " On Sept. 20, Clegg began clearing out her exercise room for remodeling. With little time to read the paper that day, she nearly tossed it out but decided to quickly skim over the front pages early next morning. That's when she saw Allen's story and immediately set out to contact her. Four days later, she delivered the quilt to Allen where she works at Dizin Salon in Tempe, just a few blocks from Clegg's home. "This lady has just been hanging on to it. It's crazy. She's just been waiting," Allen said with disbelief. "I was so excited. I just really feel like it was meant to be." |
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