October 20, 1933

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Beauty in the Home column including an announcement about the Quilt Club Contest and a story about a quilting group.

Beauty in the Home
Thirteen Quilters Defy Superstition and Set About to Finish Top
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.

Left to right - (standing) Mrs. C. Lennie, Mrs. F. Smart, Mrs. C. Blemly, Mrs. Marvin Sprague, Mrs. O.Q. Brown, Mrs. Mary Greenfield and Mrs. J.W. Shurtleff; (sitting) Mrs. R. Van Zee, Mrs. A.J. Hill, Mrs. C. Ladd, Mrs. C.H. Shafer, Mrs. E.J. Covert and Mrs. E.E. Ward.

No one seems to be superstitious in the Quilt Club of the Women's Union at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church for I found 13 women busily at work on the quilting of a Dresden Plate and I wouldn't be surprised if they had a black cat for their mascot.

So far they have certainly had good luck with their quilt, for the materials are attractive, the combinations charming and it seemed to go together "just like clockwork."

There is the most beautiful tint of green used for the border. In fact there are two borders of this green and between them a border of oblong pieces of various kinds and colors of prints.

The background and centers of the plates in this quilt are quilted in diamond design; and there were two other quilts set up on frames.

One was made entirely of outing flannel in a conventional design and being tied with red wool, making an old-time comforter out of it. Of course, this is not from a News pattern and will not be entered in the Contest, but you may feel certain that that Dresden Plate with the two green borders having a row of print patches between them will be on hand.

Aren't you happy to know that the Contest has been postponed until November 17, 18 and 19? This, you know, makes it possible to extend the time limit for sending in your entry blanks until November 10 and this is a great relief to those who knew they could not finish tops or quilts by October 15, the first date.

Remember, the new quilts must be from News patterns and they may be either completed quilts or just tops and if you have any quilts over 50 years old, please enter them. There is a great interest in old quilts and a great number are being entered, so be sure to hunt among your possessions and see if you can't find an old one that you would like to exhibit.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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