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Here's a Real Quilting Family Getting Ready for News' Contest
November 10, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Lynne Charlet
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A portion of a Beauty in the Home column including a list of prizes for the Contest, a story of a family of quilt-makers and letters from Quilt Club members.
Beauty in the Home
Here's a Real Quilting Family Getting Ready for News' Contest
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. R.J. Reddington and Mrs. Robert Graham; sitting, Mrs. Walker Wilson, Mrs. Leola Horning, Peaches Frost and Mrs. C.S. Frost.
It's rarely one finds an entire family of quilters but in the illustration are shown five sisters with their mother, Mrs. C.S. Frost, Mrs. Reddington (Leona) and Leola Horning being twins.
Quilt-making is not a new idea with the members of this family and while waiting for them to arrive, Mrs. Frost showed me a collection of quilts which must have taken her many years to acquire. Each has an interesting history and the old patterns are all familiar to her. She is very particular about the blending of colors and each of her daughters has been carefully trained in the art of piecework, patching and quilting.
Pastel tints seem to be the favored selections, although some of the older quilts show the stronger tones.
The quilt on which the quilters are shown working is a Dresden Plate in several tints of the same pattern, so arranged that the tints appear in regular positions throughout the quilt.
Mrs. Frost, who lives at 22046 Michigan avenue, Dearborn, is planning to attend the Contest, and I think we may feel certain that her daughters will accompany her, for each is so interested in quilts that I am certain she would not want to stay away from such a display of handcraft.
And here is something I learned from Mrs. Frost that might be interesting to those who have a great many spools and that is that she saves all of the spools and Mr. Frost then makes her old-time style what-nots with the spools strung for the standards. Can't you just imagine how quaint and attractive these would be?
If you have not brought your quilt in to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette boulevard, please do so as soon as possible, for Wednesday afternoon (November 15) is the last it can be entered.
Many, many have already been brought in, but we want all of them, so for your convenience, please bring your quilts (as many as you like) right away. If new, they must be made from News' patterns and if antique must be at least 50 years old.
The hours for the Contest are 12 noon to 10 p. m. and come prepared to stay a long time for you will require leisure to look at all of these quilts.
Quilt Club Corner.
I am so pleased to hear that the Contest was postponed. I will start quilting my Dresden Plate next week. Have you a quilting design for it?
We have moved back to St. Clair Shores for the winter, and I would like to hear from some of the members who live out here. We could meet this winter and quilt.
What a wonderful place to exhibit quilts! I hope to be at the Contest every day.
I am enclosing a membership card for my mother. She was 75 years old Oct. 12.
Mrs. Fred R. Jones
Route 1, Box 85-A
St. Clair Shores, Mich.
No, there is no quilting pattern here for the Dresden Plate, Mrs. Jones. A good many are using a diamond design for the center of the plate, outlining the petals and filling in the white spaces with small conventional flowers.
I know you must be glad that the Contest has been postponed and so are a great many others.
As you say, the Naval Armory is an ideal location for the Quilt Exhibit and I am looking forward to seeing you and your mother and your quilts. I hope that some St. Clair or Mt. Clemens quilt-makers get in touch with you so that you may form a quilting circle for the winter months.
I am enclosing an enrollment card with my mother's name and my own. We have no quilts to enter now, but we wish to attend the Contest. My mother has made several quilts. We made a Dresden Plate but gave it away. We have another one started.
We never miss reading any of the letters in the Corner and enjoy them so much, as we learn so many helpful things about quilt-making.
I was afraid we might not be allowed to see the quilts unless we enrolled and did not want to take any chances, for we do want to see those pretty quilts.
Mrs. F. Hart.
I do hope that you and your mother will both have quilts or tops to enter in the Contest. Can't you borrow that Dresden Plate that you gave away?
Every one is allowed to see the quilts whether she has sent one in or not. The doors are open to the public and many are writing that they intend to be there every day, so I am anticipating three interesting days and evenings for quilt-makers.
$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.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
Here's a Real Quilting Family Getting Ready for News' Contest
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. R.J. Reddington and Mrs. Robert Graham; sitting, Mrs. Walker Wilson, Mrs. Leola Horning, Peaches Frost and Mrs. C.S. Frost.
It's rarely one finds an entire family of quilters but in the illustration are shown five sisters with their mother, Mrs. C.S. Frost, Mrs. Reddington (Leona) and Leola Horning being twins.
Quilt-making is not a new idea with the members of this family and while waiting for them to arrive, Mrs. Frost showed me a collection of quilts which must have taken her many years to acquire. Each has an interesting history and the old patterns are all familiar to her. She is very particular about the blending of colors and each of her daughters has been carefully trained in the art of piecework, patching and quilting.
Pastel tints seem to be the favored selections, although some of the older quilts show the stronger tones.
The quilt on which the quilters are shown working is a Dresden Plate in several tints of the same pattern, so arranged that the tints appear in regular positions throughout the quilt.
Mrs. Frost, who lives at 22046 Michigan avenue, Dearborn, is planning to attend the Contest, and I think we may feel certain that her daughters will accompany her, for each is so interested in quilts that I am certain she would not want to stay away from such a display of handcraft.
And here is something I learned from Mrs. Frost that might be interesting to those who have a great many spools and that is that she saves all of the spools and Mr. Frost then makes her old-time style what-nots with the spools strung for the standards. Can't you just imagine how quaint and attractive these would be?
If you have not brought your quilt in to the main office of The Detroit News, Second and Lafayette boulevard, please do so as soon as possible, for Wednesday afternoon (November 15) is the last it can be entered.
Many, many have already been brought in, but we want all of them, so for your convenience, please bring your quilts (as many as you like) right away. If new, they must be made from News' patterns and if antique must be at least 50 years old.
The hours for the Contest are 12 noon to 10 p. m. and come prepared to stay a long time for you will require leisure to look at all of these quilts.
Quilt Club Corner.
I am so pleased to hear that the Contest was postponed. I will start quilting my Dresden Plate next week. Have you a quilting design for it?
We have moved back to St. Clair Shores for the winter, and I would like to hear from some of the members who live out here. We could meet this winter and quilt.
What a wonderful place to exhibit quilts! I hope to be at the Contest every day.
I am enclosing a membership card for my mother. She was 75 years old Oct. 12.
Mrs. Fred R. Jones
Route 1, Box 85-A
St. Clair Shores, Mich.
No, there is no quilting pattern here for the Dresden Plate, Mrs. Jones. A good many are using a diamond design for the center of the plate, outlining the petals and filling in the white spaces with small conventional flowers.
I know you must be glad that the Contest has been postponed and so are a great many others.
As you say, the Naval Armory is an ideal location for the Quilt Exhibit and I am looking forward to seeing you and your mother and your quilts. I hope that some St. Clair or Mt. Clemens quilt-makers get in touch with you so that you may form a quilting circle for the winter months.
I am enclosing an enrollment card with my mother's name and my own. We have no quilts to enter now, but we wish to attend the Contest. My mother has made several quilts. We made a Dresden Plate but gave it away. We have another one started.
We never miss reading any of the letters in the Corner and enjoy them so much, as we learn so many helpful things about quilt-making.
I was afraid we might not be allowed to see the quilts unless we enrolled and did not want to take any chances, for we do want to see those pretty quilts.
Mrs. F. Hart.
I do hope that you and your mother will both have quilts or tops to enter in the Contest. Can't you borrow that Dresden Plate that you gave away?
Every one is allowed to see the quilts whether she has sent one in or not. The doors are open to the public and many are writing that they intend to be there every day, so I am anticipating three interesting days and evenings for quilt-makers.
$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.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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