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The Ladies’ Aid of Waltz Church Plan to Enter Many Lovely Quilts
November 08, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Beauty in the Home column including an announcement about the Quilt Club Contest, a list of prizes for the Quilt Club Contest, a coupon for entering a quilt in the Quilt Club Contest, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Beauty in the Home
The Ladies’ Aid of Waltz Church Plan to Enter Many Lovely Quilts
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.
STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Ludwig Krzyszke, Mrs. Carl Krzyszke, and Mrs. August Hasley; sitting, left to right, Mrs. Henry Rademacher, Mrs. Alvina Neumann, Mrs. Henry Otter, Mrs. Edward Kahlbaum and Mrs. A. Hoerl.
IT ISN’T every one who can say—“let’s get together and do some quilting. I can set two frames up at the same time in my house.” But Mrs. John F. Draftz of Carleton, has a great big house on a farm that has so much room in it that two quilt frames are not a bit of inconvenience and in the accompanying illustration are shown the ladies working on one of the quilts.
You will be interested in this quilt for it is a basket pattern taken from the Wonder Package, little baskets being used for the border. It is the first one made from this pattern to be entered in the Contest and I know that it won’t be many days before it will be brought in with many more.
The quilt-makers working on the second quilt, which is a Dresden Plate were Laura Felt, Mrs. Robert Chambo, Mrs. August Neuman, Mrs. L. Andres, Mrs. John Draftz, Mrs. Gust Draftz, Mrs. Emil Rademacher and Mrs. Darrel Miller; and both groups are members of the Ladies’ Aid of St. John’s Lutheran Church of Waltz. They meet every month at one of the houses, but because Mrs. Draftz has so much room for large quilting frames (and I also think that good cooking has something to do with it) they have met frequently at her home this year.
However, from these groups you may expect to see Double Wedding Rings, Dresden Plates, Jacob’s Ladders, Winged Squares and Peek-a-Boos.
And have you brought or sent your quilt in for the Contest yet? Remember that November 10 is the date set for all of the application blanks to be sent and then you will have until the evening of November 15 to send the quilts, but will you please try to send them long before that?
Today a quilt came in that was made in Nova Scotia in 1878, and there are old coverlets, piecework and patchwork quilts and, of course, just heaps of lovely new ones, all from News’ patterns.
Don’t forget that you are invited to attend the big quilting party at the United States Naval Armory, east Jefferson avenue, just east of the Belle Isle bridge, on November 17, 18 and 19.
Another thing—please write or print your name on a piece of cloth and sew it to the back of one corner of your quilt.
All quilts are to be brought to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette boulevard, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Quilt Club Corner.
I AM sending my coupon in this letter. I have finished my Double Wedding Ring quilt. I am not a member of your Club but I enjoy reading the Corner and listening to the radio programs.
I am very fond of quilts. I have pieced the Flower Garden and Dresden Plate quilts but will not quilt them until this winter.
MRS. SADIE BUENINGER,
2424 Fullerton,
Detroit, Mich.
Thank you so much for writing in and sending your coupon. Bring your quilt tops as soon as possible to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette.
You will enjoy quilting your tops this winter when the weather will not permit you to go out of doors so much.
Shell Stitch Cushion Victorian Influence
By ETHEL K. EHLEN.
A MORE dainty vanity gift for the boudoir it would be hard to find! This cushion suggests the Victorian era, partly because of its delicacy of color and its size, but chiefly because of the shell stitch, which was so popular in the eighteen hundreds.
You can crochet it of crochet cotton if you like, but the photograph shows a cushion interpreted in the most modern of crochet materials—crepe paper. A few cents’ worth of crepe, and a few hours of time—and it’s finished. It works up ever so quickly, so that you will be tempted to make a couple for your own room, in your won favorite pastels. For this one, we used an exquisite peach shade.
It takes a single fold of crepe to make one cushion. Cut into strips ½ inch wide, stretch and twist, and use a No. 0 steel crochet hook. Chain 3 and join in a loop. Crochet 8 s c around the loop. 2d round: “ 3 d c in each s c, ch 2. Repeat from “. 3d round: “ 3 d c, 2 ch in each space. Repeat from “ until square measures 8 inches. Make a second square for the back.
For the edging around the cushion: “ s c in space, ch 1, 3 d c in second d c of previous row. Repeat from “. At corners, 2 s c in space. Make this edging around one square only, for the top of the cushion.
Slipstitch the two squares of the cushion top along three sides. Insert the pillow and sew the fourth side. This is the sixth in a series of “a gift a day” suggestions, tomorrow, A Rumble Seat Bag.
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.
$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 top 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 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………10.000
And there will also be three prizes for tops only, in appliqued design, as follows: 1st …….$35.00
2nd……..20.00
3rd……10.000
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’ quilts there will be two prizes as follows
1st………………$15
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 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?
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
The Ladies’ Aid of Waltz Church Plan to Enter Many Lovely Quilts
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.
STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Ludwig Krzyszke, Mrs. Carl Krzyszke, and Mrs. August Hasley; sitting, left to right, Mrs. Henry Rademacher, Mrs. Alvina Neumann, Mrs. Henry Otter, Mrs. Edward Kahlbaum and Mrs. A. Hoerl.
IT ISN’T every one who can say—“let’s get together and do some quilting. I can set two frames up at the same time in my house.” But Mrs. John F. Draftz of Carleton, has a great big house on a farm that has so much room in it that two quilt frames are not a bit of inconvenience and in the accompanying illustration are shown the ladies working on one of the quilts.
You will be interested in this quilt for it is a basket pattern taken from the Wonder Package, little baskets being used for the border. It is the first one made from this pattern to be entered in the Contest and I know that it won’t be many days before it will be brought in with many more.
The quilt-makers working on the second quilt, which is a Dresden Plate were Laura Felt, Mrs. Robert Chambo, Mrs. August Neuman, Mrs. L. Andres, Mrs. John Draftz, Mrs. Gust Draftz, Mrs. Emil Rademacher and Mrs. Darrel Miller; and both groups are members of the Ladies’ Aid of St. John’s Lutheran Church of Waltz. They meet every month at one of the houses, but because Mrs. Draftz has so much room for large quilting frames (and I also think that good cooking has something to do with it) they have met frequently at her home this year.
However, from these groups you may expect to see Double Wedding Rings, Dresden Plates, Jacob’s Ladders, Winged Squares and Peek-a-Boos.
And have you brought or sent your quilt in for the Contest yet? Remember that November 10 is the date set for all of the application blanks to be sent and then you will have until the evening of November 15 to send the quilts, but will you please try to send them long before that?
Today a quilt came in that was made in Nova Scotia in 1878, and there are old coverlets, piecework and patchwork quilts and, of course, just heaps of lovely new ones, all from News’ patterns.
Don’t forget that you are invited to attend the big quilting party at the United States Naval Armory, east Jefferson avenue, just east of the Belle Isle bridge, on November 17, 18 and 19.
Another thing—please write or print your name on a piece of cloth and sew it to the back of one corner of your quilt.
All quilts are to be brought to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette boulevard, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Quilt Club Corner.
I AM sending my coupon in this letter. I have finished my Double Wedding Ring quilt. I am not a member of your Club but I enjoy reading the Corner and listening to the radio programs.
I am very fond of quilts. I have pieced the Flower Garden and Dresden Plate quilts but will not quilt them until this winter.
MRS. SADIE BUENINGER,
2424 Fullerton,
Detroit, Mich.
Thank you so much for writing in and sending your coupon. Bring your quilt tops as soon as possible to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette.
You will enjoy quilting your tops this winter when the weather will not permit you to go out of doors so much.
Shell Stitch Cushion Victorian Influence
By ETHEL K. EHLEN.
A MORE dainty vanity gift for the boudoir it would be hard to find! This cushion suggests the Victorian era, partly because of its delicacy of color and its size, but chiefly because of the shell stitch, which was so popular in the eighteen hundreds.
You can crochet it of crochet cotton if you like, but the photograph shows a cushion interpreted in the most modern of crochet materials—crepe paper. A few cents’ worth of crepe, and a few hours of time—and it’s finished. It works up ever so quickly, so that you will be tempted to make a couple for your own room, in your won favorite pastels. For this one, we used an exquisite peach shade.
It takes a single fold of crepe to make one cushion. Cut into strips ½ inch wide, stretch and twist, and use a No. 0 steel crochet hook. Chain 3 and join in a loop. Crochet 8 s c around the loop. 2d round: “ 3 d c in each s c, ch 2. Repeat from “. 3d round: “ 3 d c, 2 ch in each space. Repeat from “ until square measures 8 inches. Make a second square for the back.
For the edging around the cushion: “ s c in space, ch 1, 3 d c in second d c of previous row. Repeat from “. At corners, 2 s c in space. Make this edging around one square only, for the top of the cushion.
Slipstitch the two squares of the cushion top along three sides. Insert the pillow and sew the fourth side. This is the sixth in a series of “a gift a day” suggestions, tomorrow, A Rumble Seat Bag.
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.
$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 top 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 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………10.000
And there will also be three prizes for tops only, in appliqued design, as follows: 1st …….$35.00
2nd……..20.00
3rd……10.000
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’ quilts there will be two prizes as follows
1st………………$15
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 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?
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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