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… Effective… Bed Covering

July 24, 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 Horoscope Pattern No. 37 and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Beauty in the Home
… Effective… Bed Covering

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)…fabrics as draperies and coverings for the chairs and it is also possible to use stripes, cross bar, or plaids in the same room with these two materials.

If one wished to furnish a one room apartment, so that it would be homelike, convenient and somewhat out of the ordinary it might be well to study this for suggestions as to furniture selections and arrangement.

In the first place the has a corner which might be rather awkward to furnish and although there are both glass curtains and over draperies, it would be just as well to have the former only, for one should avoid smothering windows and one that is as small as this should be very simply treated to keep it in the background rather than draw attention to it.

One might have it bright color scheme or a very subdued one, and if the former is preferred the walls and woodwork might be finished in light blue green, the floor covering being of plain black carpeting.

The glass curtains might be of blue green gauze and the over draperies of flowered chintz with a blue green ground and coral, yellow and black in design.

The sofa might be covered in coral moiré and slip covers for the easy chairs of material to match the draperies.

A more conservative scheme has soft peach walls and woodwork and glass curtains in the same tint.

The floor covering might be of blue green carpeting and the covering for the sofa of rust moiré. For the draperies there might be rust ground chintz and for the lamp shades in both scheme soft tints of gold would be pleasing.

Quilt Club Corner
Having heard so many enthusiastic remarks about eth beauty of the Trip Around the World quilt pattern I have decided to send for it.

Last winter I made two quilts and several rag rugs besides going to school.

Is there any age limit for those who enter Quilts in the contest? My grandmother has made several quilts, not only for herself but one for every grandchild. The stitches she takes are marvels of perfection and neatness.
(Miss Evelyn Kunkle)
Boyne City, Mich.

I know that you will like the Trip Around the World pattern and hope that you will plan to enter it or one of your other quilts you have just finished (If they are from News patterns) in the Contest.

There is no age limit to the contestants and anyone 100 years young or less may enter a quilt.

I look forward to the News each evening so that I can read the Quilt Club Corner.

A friend of mine and I have made several pairs of beach pajamas out of children’s printed percale and we have found that the scraps make clever crib quilts. I am making my blocks out of nine, two inch squares combining the percale with two inch squares of unbleached muslin.

I am also a flower Garden quilt. I do manage to have my meals on time, but my husband says that I better put my quilts away until I get my other sewing finished but I can’t do it. They are too fascinating.
Mrs. R.D.E

Those little nine patch quilts must be a very attractive for a crib and it is a satisfaction to make something so nice out of just scraps.

It’s funny- isn’t it- how dull mending and plain sewing become when there is a quilt to be worked upon?

Horoscope Quilt Pattern No. 37
And now pattern No. 37 of this very interesting Horoscope Quilt is ready for you. How are you getting along with your quilt, and how much longer do you think it will be before you have finished it? Please write to the Corner so that it will be possible to set a definite date for the Contest.

This is very important and if you will just drop a card or a little note when you send for the pattern it will be greatly appreciated.

A reprint of this leaflet from The Detroit News will be mailed to anyone wishing it, upon receipt of request, if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Address Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News. Copies may be secured by calling personally at The Detroit news Public Service Bureau in either the General Motors Building or the Majestic Building. Pontiac residents may secure this leaflet at The Detroit News, Pontiac Bureau 412 Pontiac Bank Building.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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