November 22, 1932

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Beauty in the Home column featuring letters from members of the Quilt Club Corner and the leaflet for the sixth pattern in the Horoscope quilt.

Horoscope Quilt—Pattern No. 6

THE sixth pattern of the Horoscope quilt is ready and waiting for you to send for it, so don’t hesitate because you do not want to get behind in your sewing and have all the other Club members finished before you. By sending each week is the only way to keep up with everybody else.

To receive this leaflet just send your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department. The Detroit News, inclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If you prefer, you may call for this leaflet at the Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building is either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building, where it will be given you free of charge.

QUILT CLUB CORNER.
I AM a member of the Quilt Club and am working on the Horoscope quilt.

I have two blocks finished, all but the characteristics of Taurus and the more I work on it the better I like it.

I showed it to my daughter and she was so enthused over it that she is going to start one too.
MRS. A. P.

Now you and your daughter can have a quilt-making race. It is more fun when someone is making the same pattern right along with you. Be sure to let us know how you are both getting along.

MY aunt is an ardent quilter and is always looking for new patterns. She is 72 years old and has made dozens of quilts. She has made dozens of quilts. She taught me to make my first quilt, which was the Log Cabin pattern.
MRS. P. M.

You started on a hard pattern, didn’t you Mrs. M., but little girls used to have lots of time to make quilts and loved it. How many do you suppose your 72-year-old aunt has made, and does she want to keep on making them?

I AM finishing the Dresden Plate quilt. No block has two pieces alike. I am putting 12 blocks on top and designing a wide border with a fourth of a circle in each corner of the quilt.

My most highly prized quilt is a Log Cabin design pieced by my mother from strips one-half inch wide. It is made of cotton but is very pretty. I made three tops last winter myself.
MRS. H. A.

Just think of the time and patience it would require to make a Log Cabin quilt of one-half inch strips! It must be a very beautiful one and you are fortunate to have it, Take good care of it for it is a treasure.

Your Dresden Plate must be very attractive and you have been very clever to arrange the corners that way.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.