June 16, 1933

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A portion of a Beauty in the Home column including an advertisement for the Quilt Club Corner radio show and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.

Beauty in the Home
…Ideal Background…Early American 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.

(clipping cut-off)...of this type and in this day of pattern glass collecting there are many authentic patterns which may be had in both of these articles. Pewter also lends itself as a decorative touch for the mantel or when used for vases and lampls, and bits of modern Italian and French peasant pottery may be added if gay color is desired.

Quilt Club Corner
I would like to become a member of your very delightful Quilt Club Corner. I think this particular corner of the News is really the most interesting part of the paper for those of us who enjoy the many helpful suggestions and instructions in the art of quilt making and always learning something new every day. I have made lots of quilts given lots away just for fun (to come of my friends who do not care about piecing them).

I am making a Dresden Plate quilt now. I never thought I would like plates on my bed, but when I saw one completed well I had just finished a Flower Garden quilt and it is beautiful and I intend making another one latter on.

I would like to correspond with other members of the Club and to exchange patches.

Best wishes to all beginners and to old timers like me; and special thanks let me add to the News for making a lot of us happy in the thought of having something to do in spare time and for space in the paper for so much to help and benefit to the News readers.
Mrs. John Fisher
19166 Shields Ave, Detroit Mich.

Well, you certainly are an enthusiastic quilt maker. Mrs. Fisher and be sure to send in your enrollment blank if you have not already done so. No doubt your letter will bring some letters to you and the first thing you know you ill have quilts a little circle of quilt making friends.

I do hope that your friends who do not like to piece quilts appreciated the ones you gave them. That was a lovely thing to do. Thank you so much for writing.

I would like to join the other quilt makers, although I am very busy; but do my patchwork while listening to the radio.

I wrote Mrs. Fisher a postal card asking if she received a pattern I send her but so far I have not heard from her.
Mrs. E.R.E.
748 O.L. Ave Pontiac, Mich.

So glad to have you with us on Wednesdays Mrs. E and I am sure that you will hear from Mrs. Fisher. She has probably been very busy lately.

Quilt Club Corner Changes Radio Time
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 10:30 every Wednesday over WWJ. Listen in for your own and others and then write and tell the Corner how you like this idea.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.