BACK TO PUBLICATIONS
Horoscope Quilt - Pattern No. 27
April 25, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A pattern leaflet for the Aries border quilt block. This is the twenty-seventh in a series of pattern leaflets for The Horoscope Quilt.
Reprint From
The Detroit News
Horoscope Quilt - Pattern No. 27
Aries
By Edith B. Crumb.
If you will look at an old almanac you will see that the figure of the human being that is always found in it has the ram at one end of the dotted line leading to the head and face. That's why we talk about this sign first. Then, too, the ancients started their year, if we may call is such, when the earth began to show signs of life and buds and birds appeared.
The ram is a headstrong animal quite warlike and apt to butt into things. That led the ancients to say that the stars making up the ram constellation in the skies must be ruled in turn by a planet - the most warlike one there is Mars. So they expected, and strange as it may seem, they found it quite frequently true, that people born between the period we now set aside in our calendar as March 22 to April 20 were rather headstrong, and audacious. They hated to stay "put" but had the pioneering instinct and the roving foot and felt the lure of the gypsy trail
Intuitive People.
They were intuitive, reading people's feelings easily. And they were born orators with their silver tongued eloquence.
And then as legends and stories grown we find that Aries people should use the diamond as a birthstone, that Tuesday is the day of the week when the nicest things happen to them, that their favorite flower is the daisy and that they pick out red as a well liked color. Red is warlike, and Aries people are apt to be like the animal - belligerent, daring, sometimes quick and sometimes impatient.
Perhaps we are wise in making a quilt for Aries folks for they need plenty of sleep and are in the best health when they keep regular hours. But then, aren't we all?
The ram whose outline we have today is to be used on the border of the quilt. This border is six inches wide when finished and is cut six and one-half inches wide. That lets us work in the design nicely. There are a number of ways in which the border may be put together. A long strip of white may have the pictorical designs of the zodiac outlined closely adjacent to one another, repeating them again and again around the border.
Put Together With Blue.
Or the designs, of which there will be 12, may be worked on six-and-one-half-inch blocks and put together with pieces of blue. Or the white strip may be kept uncut and the designs embroidered in line with the square blocks which makes up the body of the quilt. This would mean there would be four on each side, three at the foot and three at the top. To do this you would have to repeat two of them since that scheme would take 14 and there are only 12 signs. The two I would suggest repeating are those of yourself and one other member of the family.
You will probably be delighted to get to work on the border for this means that the quilt is nearing completion. Don't forget to drop a few lines to the Quilt Club Corner for, you know, it is a very "chatty" Corner and all the members look for more letters every night.
The Daily Horoscope is a fascinating feature which appears every day on the Women's Pages of The Detroit News - The Home Newspaper
1116-4-25-33
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
The Detroit News
Horoscope Quilt - Pattern No. 27
Aries
By Edith B. Crumb.
If you will look at an old almanac you will see that the figure of the human being that is always found in it has the ram at one end of the dotted line leading to the head and face. That's why we talk about this sign first. Then, too, the ancients started their year, if we may call is such, when the earth began to show signs of life and buds and birds appeared.
The ram is a headstrong animal quite warlike and apt to butt into things. That led the ancients to say that the stars making up the ram constellation in the skies must be ruled in turn by a planet - the most warlike one there is Mars. So they expected, and strange as it may seem, they found it quite frequently true, that people born between the period we now set aside in our calendar as March 22 to April 20 were rather headstrong, and audacious. They hated to stay "put" but had the pioneering instinct and the roving foot and felt the lure of the gypsy trail
Intuitive People.
They were intuitive, reading people's feelings easily. And they were born orators with their silver tongued eloquence.
And then as legends and stories grown we find that Aries people should use the diamond as a birthstone, that Tuesday is the day of the week when the nicest things happen to them, that their favorite flower is the daisy and that they pick out red as a well liked color. Red is warlike, and Aries people are apt to be like the animal - belligerent, daring, sometimes quick and sometimes impatient.
Perhaps we are wise in making a quilt for Aries folks for they need plenty of sleep and are in the best health when they keep regular hours. But then, aren't we all?
The ram whose outline we have today is to be used on the border of the quilt. This border is six inches wide when finished and is cut six and one-half inches wide. That lets us work in the design nicely. There are a number of ways in which the border may be put together. A long strip of white may have the pictorical designs of the zodiac outlined closely adjacent to one another, repeating them again and again around the border.
Put Together With Blue.
Or the designs, of which there will be 12, may be worked on six-and-one-half-inch blocks and put together with pieces of blue. Or the white strip may be kept uncut and the designs embroidered in line with the square blocks which makes up the body of the quilt. This would mean there would be four on each side, three at the foot and three at the top. To do this you would have to repeat two of them since that scheme would take 14 and there are only 12 signs. The two I would suggest repeating are those of yourself and one other member of the family.
You will probably be delighted to get to work on the border for this means that the quilt is nearing completion. Don't forget to drop a few lines to the Quilt Club Corner for, you know, it is a very "chatty" Corner and all the members look for more letters every night.
The Daily Horoscope is a fascinating feature which appears every day on the Women's Pages of The Detroit News - The Home Newspaper
1116-4-25-33
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
6119.81.33
-
Museum
Michigan State University Museum Michigan Quilt Project
-
Collection
Detroit News Quilt History Project
Salser, Susan
-
Collection
Clarke Family Quilt Collection
Michigan State University Museum
Load More
