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…Room …Ceiling

August 22, 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 advertisements for the Quilt Club radio show and the Detroit News Wonder Package.
(clipping cut-off)…At the left of the dining room group is a bay of floor length windows, equipped with Venetian blinds. In this are grouped sofa (apparently small sized but sufficiently large for three), pair of tables, easy chair and low occasional table.

At the end of the room opposite the fireplace is a reading and writing group and also a piano. An archway at this end of the room...(clipping cut-off)
(clipping cut-off)...tomorrow.

Each of the three chairs being in a different design there is no possibility of having so-called "sets" of furniture which is so apt to make a scheme monotonous.

The bay of this room with its seven floor length windows, really takes the place of a sunroom. In the smaller illustration is shown a portion of this bay. The interesting part of this are the book-shelves installed on the back of a table desk. This is space which might otherwise be wasted and because it is so near the easy chairs and the sofa, it becomes an important part of this bay scheme.

Because the floor is of such an attractive pattern only one rug has been used and that in the bay.

Quilt Club Corner.
Just returned from a two weeks vacation at Manistique Lake and nearly finished my Trip Around the World quilt with the help of Mrs. Harry Inglis, of Tyler avenue, Berkley, Michigan, who was with us.

We started one for her and by the way this is her first quilt and she is very much excited over it. We went as far as she had material for and then she helped on mine.

We met a Mrs. Newkirk from Muskegon Lake and she liked our quilt very much. She had a box of patches and we started one for her out of what she had for a pattern. She belongs to a quilt club and is delighted to take the pattern back with her. Through the quilt we became acquainted with a lot of the other campers who thought it beautiful.

I missed the two broadcasts but will listen in Wednesday.
Mrs. C. Voelker.
12022 Hartwell, Detroit, Michigan.

You certainly had a profitable summer, Mrs. Voelker, and in spite of the weather kept up the good work. Several have written to say that they did not inted to start quilt-making again until the cooler weather in the early fall. You not only kept right on but got others interested also.

I am glad to know that you are back in the city again and to be counted amoung those in the radio circle.

I have been a silent member of the Quilt Club from the start, so thought I would speak up. I have a Dresden Plate all done and have started on the Trip. My main color is pink and it looks pretty. My Dresden Plate is put on medium green broadcloth, and I button-holed the plates on with yellow cotton thread. In quilting it I just use a two and one-half inch square and worked around my plates. I did this with number 60 yellow thread.

I would like to tell you how my quilt frames are made. Two strips are ten feet long and two eight feet. They are three inches wide. My husband drilled quarter inch holes two inches apart in these strips and rounded the edges. I sew the back of the quilt on first over and over, then my filling and the top. It works fine - no more sore fingers from pinning on quilts; and in turning it I just loosen it a little at the side and turn under. Instead of clamps at the ends I have a quarter-inch bolt with a nut at the end, so it goes through on both strips.

I'm just a beginner in quilt-making, but every evening that's the first thing I look for in the paper. When I was small my brothers had a paper route and on Sunday the load was so heavy I used to help deliver them. It was the Eveing News then, so The News is an old paper in our house. I can hardly wait for the Quilt Club Contest.
Mrs. Otton Wholgemuth,
5227 Larchmont, Detroit.

Pink is the predominating color would certainly make a very attractive Trip Around the World; and I think that you have been clever in planning the color scheme of your Dresden Plate.

Thank you for writing in about your quilting frames. Questions like this are coming up all the time and the more information that comes in about them the better.

You certainly have early recollections of this paper and I am glad to know that it is still your favorite and that you count the Corner as one of its interesting features.

I am also glad to know that you have sent in your membership blank, for I should hate to think of such an old friend of the Corner being conten with "silent" membership.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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