November 01, 1933

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Beauty in the Home column including a list of Quilt Contest prizes and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.

Beauty in the Home
Wallpaper is Attractive With Old French Pieces
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.

FRENCH provincial furniture finds a delightful setting in a room with patterned wall papers, and in the accompanying illustration is a room having walls treated in “High Hat” design paper. This is made with several tints in the background, but the most delightful is that with a rich yellow.

If one wished a room similar to this, the woodwork might be finished to match a fine ivory trellis found also in the design and the floor covering might be of soft gray green carpeting, made to cover the floor entirely to the baseboard.

The glass curtains might be of ivory voile or marquisette finished with narrow ruffles and caught back with ruffled hands, while yellow chintz might be selected for the over-draperies these being scalloped and bound with cherry red. A flat scalloped valance might be used for the overhead treatment, this being trimmed with a cherry red knife pleated ruffle.

The bedspread might be of yellow chintz to match that used for the draperies, scallops and knife pleated ruffles (in the same color) picoted in green and cherry red trimming this.

The chair and dressing table stool might be covered with green ground chintz with a small bouquet design; and if one wished this really quaint appearing, it might be quilted in a diamond pattern.

A single chair in red and cream checked gingham would be a pleasing note in this room.

If one did not wish paper for the wall treatment, the walls and woodwork might be finished in a bisque tint and the floor covering made of fawn carpeting.

Green trimmed with red might be used for the draperies and bedspread, the furniture coverings being the same as suggested for the first scheme.

Quilt Club Corner.
I AM enclosing my entry. It took me a long time to decide to enter. My one complete quilt is the Dresden Plate, which is the first quilt I ever made and I feel it can not possibly compare with some of the others.

My other quilt is the Trip. I am still working on the top, but I think I can finish it. I have enjoyed making them both , and hope the Corner keeps up the good work after the Contest.

I am looking forward to seeing all those beautiful quilts, especially the Horoscope as I have never seen one. While I have never sent in my membership card, I feel as though I belong.
MRS. R. R.

Thank you so much for sending in your entry blank and I do hope that you will be able to bring the Trip along with the Dresden Plate. You should not feel that your work is inferior at all. Sometimes new quiltmakers turn out better work than old-timers, as they are so careful, just because they are working on the first quilts.

All that is necessary to keep up the Corner after the Contest is for everyone to write in little notes or letters for these are what “feed” it and keep it alive. I would like to count on you for some.

I HAVE my Trip top nearly finished and would like to enter it in the Contest. I also have an antique quilt to enter.

In piecing my Trip I have pieced around and around the center piece, rather than make it in sections. I liked making it this way.
MRS. A. N. STOUGH,
2324 Ford, Detroit, Michigan.

Some prefer making the Trip by piecing it around and around, while others think that making it in strips is much easier. It does not make any difference which method is used as long as the results are satisfactory. I am so glad that you will have two entries in the Contest.

HAVE been following and enjoying your Quilt Club Corner for some time but have been too backward to join in with you until now.

I think you have many wonderful quilt patterns and wish it were possible to make them all. I chose the Double Wedding Ring and made it up in two colors, white and gold. Then I quilted it with yellow or gold thread.

I would like to enter it in the Contest but do not know whether it is eligible or not. I had to make the rings larger in order to have the quilt the right size for my bed, which is very large. Will this bar it from the Contest?
MRS. N. A. BARTLOW,
8900 Treadway, Detroit, Mich.

As long as you made your quilt from a Detroit News pattern, you may enter it in the Contest, regardless of the color scheme or size. It is going to be much more interesting to see what the different quiltmakers have done with the patterns if they show originality rather than try to make them all exactly alike.

I don’t see why anyone should ever feel backward about joining the Quilt Club. Everyone is welcome and I hope now that you will feel very much “at home,” Mrs. Bartlow. Do you?

$500 in Prizes at Quilt Contest
THIS is to remind you of that Quilt Contest that is to be held in November and to urge you to send in your application for entry as quickly as possible. If you have made a quilt from a Detroit News pattern, whether you belong to the Quilt Club or not you are welcome to enter a quilt. This may be a completed quilt or a tope from a Detroit News pattern and if you have an antique quilt, 50 years or more old, you may also enter this. There is no limit to the number of quilts you may also enter this. There is no limit to the number of quilts you may enter. The prizes are as follows:
First Grand Prize…..$100.00
Second Grand Prize…$50.00
Third Grand Prize…….$25.00
There will be three prizes for appliqued quilts as follows (these must be completed quilts):
1st………………………….…$50.00
2nd……………………………$25.00
3rd…………………………...$10.00
And there will also be three prizes for tops only, in appliqued design as follows:
1st………………………….…$35.00
2nd……………………………$20.00
3rd…………………………….$10.00
For quilt tops which are of piecework designs there are to be three prizes:
1st………………………….…$35.00
2nd……………………………$20.00
3rd…………………………….$10.00
And for the children’s and young girls’ units there will be two prizes as follows:
1st………………………….…$15.00
2nd……………………………$10.00
There will be ribbon awards for the antique quilts and coverlets.

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 November 17, 18 and 19.

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 November 10 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 send 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 Nov. 10.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.