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Two Types of Furniture Create Charming Room
April 07, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Beauty in the Home column including a discussion of furniture, letters from Quilt Club Corner members, a coupon for Quilt Club membership, a form to order The Detroit News Wonder Package, an advertisement for the Quilt Club corner radio show, and an advertisement for the 23rd quilt block in the Horoscope series.
Beauty in the Home
Two Types of Furniture Create Charming Room
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
THERE is a certain elegance to the furniture of the late 17th and early 18th Century that is difficult to find in other periods, for it is simple and yet rich and very substantial.
The William and Mary sideboard and Queen Anne table and chairs show in the room in the accompanying illustration are examples of furnishings which may be combined in the same room.
The background is an important item for furniture of this type and the paneled walls, while a little later than the furniture, are formal enough to be in keeping with the scheme.
Green is one of the most effective colors to use in a Queen Anne room and one scheme which would be charming includes walls of deep ivory and the moldings picked out in antique gold and the floor covered with gray green carpeting.
For the glass curtains silk gauze made to traverse does away with the necessity of roller shades and for the over-draperies of green damask, lined, interlined and trimmed with green braid, finished floor length and put up with a flat shaped valance.
By way of contrast the chairs might be covered in dull gold damask or brocade, the latter being more interesting and if one could find one in a lattice and bouquet design it would be more effective. Of course a soft leather would also be a very good choice for the covering of the chairs and it may be in dull brown or deep yellow.
Another scheme shows walls of light green and the moldings either the same or picked out in dull gold; floor covering of very dark red carpeting, glass curtains of pale gold gauze, over-draperies of damask to match and dull green antique satin or soft leather for the furniture coverings.
Gold, carpeting, draperies, ecru glass curtains, café-au-lait walls, woodwork and moldings and light buff leather furniture covering would also be an effective color scheme.
Quilt Club Corner to Be On Radio
WOULD you like to have letters to the Quilt Club Corner read over the radio? If so, write immediately so that they may be here in time for the broadcast which is at 11:45 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in for your own and others and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.
Quilt Club Corner.
HOW interesting and helpful all of these letters are. I also think, as Mrs. Sullivan does, that we could have a theme song, but my suggestion is the old-time, “Seeing Nellie Home,” from “Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party.” I don’t know just the correct title.
I was interested in Mrs. H. W. W.’s letter, telling about the pattern of a 150-year-old quilt. I wonder if she would be willing to give the pattern to any of us who wish it. I would love to have it.
I mailed a letter to Mrs. Bowen of Lake George, the first of the week. I was interested in her because I have driven through her part of Michigan and it is beautiful.
I have met and talked over the telephone with several of the Club members and how I enjoyed the chats! I have my Dresden Plate quilt about two-thirds finished and have a lot of pieces cut for another one.
I just love Gran’s letters and am going to drive to Howell and call on her sometime this summer.
I am keeping all the Club letters and will paste them in a book. What an interesting book it will be.
MRS. MARVIN SPRAGUE,
207 Glendale avenue, Highland Park, Mich.
Yes, Mrs. Sprague, suggestions are starting to come in for a theme song and perhaps one can be found before long. I hope Mrs. H. W. W. will write to you about that 150-year-old pattern. Am glad that you wrote to Mrs. Brown as I know she will be delighted; and it will please Gran to call on her this summer.
HAVE been reading the Quilt Club letters from the first and do enjoy them and learn so many things from them and also from the radio talks. I think it is wonderful of The Detroit News to let us have the Quilt Club Corner and to furnish us the beautiful patterns from which to make the quilts.
We are a club of 13 members and we do have such good times, meeting at the different homes to work on our quilts. We are all anxiously striving to get our quilts finished before the contest. There are seven Dresden Plates being made in our Club and the others from various News patterns, one from the Tulip pattern in the Wonder Package.
We would all like to become members of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club and enclosed you will find 13 applications for enrollment.
My Dresden Plate is beautiful and several of us have also started the Double Wedding Ring and like it very much. Our church group is also making a Dresden Plate, each member donating patches for a block.
MRS. C. J. L.
That was a nice surprise—to have those 13 enrollment blanks all at one time and thank you so much for sending them.
The quilts must be lovely and very interesting to have so many being made at the same time and so many donating materials for them.
I ENJOY the Quilt Club letters in The News very much. I have made two Double Wedding Ring and one Dresden Plate quilt, as well as several others. I enjoy piecing very much and wish I could belong to a neighborhood club, but know of none in my town. My sister-in-law is the nearest quiltmaker and she lives in the country.
I am going to make the Flower Garden and Horoscope quilts some day. I hope to come to the Contest and wish someone would write to me.
MRS. SUSIE SPAULDING.
202 Cook St., Durant, Mich.
Perhaps some Durand quilt-makers will see your letter and become interested in forming a club. Several small neighborhood clubs have been started in that way. Be sure to let the Corner know if your letter brings results.
Horoscope Quilt Pattern No. 23
THERE is now ready and waiting for you the leaflet with the 23rd pattern of the Horoscope quilt on it. No doubt you are very anxious to have it for the quilt is now progressing so rapidly that one feels more like working fast on it and those who have kept up with the patterns each week must find the work quite easy.
Those who started later find it equally as interesting but have to hurry a bit more. However, no matter when it is started, it is lots of fun and all are glad that they have started this fascinating pattern.
To receive this leaflet, just send your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, enclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
If you prefer, you may call for this reprint from The Detroit News at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building where it will be given you free of charge.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 75c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and Number………………………………………………………………………………
City…………………………………………… State……………………………………………………
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 68 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
Two Types of Furniture Create Charming Room
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.
THERE is a certain elegance to the furniture of the late 17th and early 18th Century that is difficult to find in other periods, for it is simple and yet rich and very substantial.
The William and Mary sideboard and Queen Anne table and chairs show in the room in the accompanying illustration are examples of furnishings which may be combined in the same room.
The background is an important item for furniture of this type and the paneled walls, while a little later than the furniture, are formal enough to be in keeping with the scheme.
Green is one of the most effective colors to use in a Queen Anne room and one scheme which would be charming includes walls of deep ivory and the moldings picked out in antique gold and the floor covered with gray green carpeting.
For the glass curtains silk gauze made to traverse does away with the necessity of roller shades and for the over-draperies of green damask, lined, interlined and trimmed with green braid, finished floor length and put up with a flat shaped valance.
By way of contrast the chairs might be covered in dull gold damask or brocade, the latter being more interesting and if one could find one in a lattice and bouquet design it would be more effective. Of course a soft leather would also be a very good choice for the covering of the chairs and it may be in dull brown or deep yellow.
Another scheme shows walls of light green and the moldings either the same or picked out in dull gold; floor covering of very dark red carpeting, glass curtains of pale gold gauze, over-draperies of damask to match and dull green antique satin or soft leather for the furniture coverings.
Gold, carpeting, draperies, ecru glass curtains, café-au-lait walls, woodwork and moldings and light buff leather furniture covering would also be an effective color scheme.
Quilt Club Corner to Be On Radio
WOULD you like to have letters to the Quilt Club Corner read over the radio? If so, write immediately so that they may be here in time for the broadcast which is at 11:45 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in for your own and others and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.
Quilt Club Corner.
HOW interesting and helpful all of these letters are. I also think, as Mrs. Sullivan does, that we could have a theme song, but my suggestion is the old-time, “Seeing Nellie Home,” from “Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party.” I don’t know just the correct title.
I was interested in Mrs. H. W. W.’s letter, telling about the pattern of a 150-year-old quilt. I wonder if she would be willing to give the pattern to any of us who wish it. I would love to have it.
I mailed a letter to Mrs. Bowen of Lake George, the first of the week. I was interested in her because I have driven through her part of Michigan and it is beautiful.
I have met and talked over the telephone with several of the Club members and how I enjoyed the chats! I have my Dresden Plate quilt about two-thirds finished and have a lot of pieces cut for another one.
I just love Gran’s letters and am going to drive to Howell and call on her sometime this summer.
I am keeping all the Club letters and will paste them in a book. What an interesting book it will be.
MRS. MARVIN SPRAGUE,
207 Glendale avenue, Highland Park, Mich.
Yes, Mrs. Sprague, suggestions are starting to come in for a theme song and perhaps one can be found before long. I hope Mrs. H. W. W. will write to you about that 150-year-old pattern. Am glad that you wrote to Mrs. Brown as I know she will be delighted; and it will please Gran to call on her this summer.
HAVE been reading the Quilt Club letters from the first and do enjoy them and learn so many things from them and also from the radio talks. I think it is wonderful of The Detroit News to let us have the Quilt Club Corner and to furnish us the beautiful patterns from which to make the quilts.
We are a club of 13 members and we do have such good times, meeting at the different homes to work on our quilts. We are all anxiously striving to get our quilts finished before the contest. There are seven Dresden Plates being made in our Club and the others from various News patterns, one from the Tulip pattern in the Wonder Package.
We would all like to become members of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club and enclosed you will find 13 applications for enrollment.
My Dresden Plate is beautiful and several of us have also started the Double Wedding Ring and like it very much. Our church group is also making a Dresden Plate, each member donating patches for a block.
MRS. C. J. L.
That was a nice surprise—to have those 13 enrollment blanks all at one time and thank you so much for sending them.
The quilts must be lovely and very interesting to have so many being made at the same time and so many donating materials for them.
I ENJOY the Quilt Club letters in The News very much. I have made two Double Wedding Ring and one Dresden Plate quilt, as well as several others. I enjoy piecing very much and wish I could belong to a neighborhood club, but know of none in my town. My sister-in-law is the nearest quiltmaker and she lives in the country.
I am going to make the Flower Garden and Horoscope quilts some day. I hope to come to the Contest and wish someone would write to me.
MRS. SUSIE SPAULDING.
202 Cook St., Durant, Mich.
Perhaps some Durand quilt-makers will see your letter and become interested in forming a club. Several small neighborhood clubs have been started in that way. Be sure to let the Corner know if your letter brings results.
Horoscope Quilt Pattern No. 23
THERE is now ready and waiting for you the leaflet with the 23rd pattern of the Horoscope quilt on it. No doubt you are very anxious to have it for the quilt is now progressing so rapidly that one feels more like working fast on it and those who have kept up with the patterns each week must find the work quite easy.
Those who started later find it equally as interesting but have to hurry a bit more. However, no matter when it is started, it is lots of fun and all are glad that they have started this fascinating pattern.
To receive this leaflet, just send your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, enclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
If you prefer, you may call for this reprint from The Detroit News at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the Majestic Building or the General Motors Building where it will be given you free of charge.
The Detroit News,
Beauty in the Home Department.
Enclosed please find 75c for which I wish you would send me THE DETROIT NEWS WONDER PACKAGE of over 800 transfer patterns.
Name…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Street and Number………………………………………………………………………………
City…………………………………………… State……………………………………………………
If you prefer to call for this at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, or the Main Office, Second and Lafayette, the price will be but 68 cents. Please do not send coin in letters.
On account of customs regulations, Canadian orders cannot be accepted.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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