October 27, 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 a list of prizes for the Contest, a coupon for entering the Quilt Club Contest, and letters from Quilt Club members.

Beauty in the Home
You Must Have Places To Keep Your Bargains
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.

By EDITH B. CRUMB.

ARE you one of those happy-go-lucky persons who simply cannot get past a bargain counter without selecting some little thing you decide you simply cannot get alone without? In fact, you wonder how you ever felt your apartment was complete without it, even though you never thought of it before.

If you are, then you probably have many things which you do not have places for and that just necessitates some more buying or storing away. But why store anything away that is such an important part of the scheme, even though it be nothing more than a small porcelain figure?

All right, now look about for shelves, table or what-nots on which to place bric-a-brac and you’ll be busy for a while.

In the accompanying illustration is shown the corner of a room which might be occupied by a collector for the hanging shelf is full of small objects and they are about on the tables. Nevertheless, they really do lend charm to the room. Even the lamps must have been picked up in…(clipping cut-off)
(clipping cut-off)…and supported huge pitcher, bowl, soap dish and tooth brush holder. Towels were hung over the rods at the sides, and over it on the wall equipped with ruffled curtains and flowered chintz overdraperies, while plain carpeting or hooked rugs might be selected for the floor covering.

Quilt Club Corner.
I HOPE I am not too late with my enrollment blank. I am working on the Double Wedding Ring, Dresden Plate and the Trip. I think I will quit and work on one only, and perhaps I can get it done for the Contest.

I wonder if someone would write and tell me how much material it takes for the pieces for the number four squares in the Double Wedding Ring. I am thinking of doing mine in orchid and green. I will be busy the rest of the winter working on my quilts.
MRS. R. BLOISDELL.
12538 Cheyenne, Detroit, Mich.

Well, if you can’t finish all three tops. I am glad that you have decided to concentrate on one, so as to surely have an entry for the Contest. Be sure to come and bring your piecework or patchwork or some patches to exchange. And don’t forget to write again.

About two-thirds of a yard of two different colors should be sufficient for the No. 4 block of the Double Wedding ring quilt.

BY the date this is the last of eleventh hour to try to enter. If I’m too late let me know.

I just saw your coupon in today’s News. I have an antique coverlet of wool and a tufted candlewick one; also real wool sheets or blankets. The wool was from sheep off my mother’s farm. It was carded at the carding mill and then spun at home and woven into these sheets. Would they be of interest for the Contest? They are over 50 years old.
MRS. GEORGINA SUNDERHAFT.
126 Ford, Highland Park, Mich.

Indeed, you are not too late. You have until Nov. 10 to send in your entrance blank, and I would say that all you mention except the sheets would be of interest. Of course, they would too, in a way, but inasmuch as there is no classification for these perhaps it would be better to omit them. The antique coverlet and candlewick spread must be unusually interesting and I hope that you will surely enter them.

Important Notice of Quilt Contest
Due to the fact that so many have written in for an extension of time on their quilts, it has become necessary to postpone the Quilt Contest until some time in November.

Now – will everyone who has ever made a quilt from a News pattern consider exhibiting it? More than one may be entered and all that one has to do is to fill out the coupon which will be found on this page Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and send it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News. This notice must be in before October 15 and your cooperation in sending it in as quickly as possible will be appreciated.

If you have never made a quilt from a News pattern, but have an old quilt, 50 years of age or more, you may enter that. There is a great interest in old quilts and you will be aiding in the revival of this early American occupation if you will allow others to see some heirloom which you may have.

Will you not sent in your coupon at once?

Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as an exhibitor in the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club Contest. I have _____ quilts made from Detroit News patterns and _______ antique quilts which I would like to enter.
Name………….
Street and number……….
City…….State……..

(Anyone who has made a top or completed a quilt from any Detroit News pattern is allowed to compete in this Contest. Any quilt 50 years or more in age may be entered in the Antique section of the Contest.)

If you wish to enter either a new or an antique quilt in this Contest, please fill out this coupon and send it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, before October 15.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.