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Here Is Log Cabin Quilt That Has Modern Effect
December 21, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner column including an advertisement for the Doll Quilt pattern and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Quilt Club Corner.
Here Is Log Cabin Quilt That Has Modern Effect
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.
That an antique quilt may appear modern seems a bit unusual, but in the accompanying illustration is one of the antiques which took a prize at The Detroit News Contest, and that it has a modern feeling there is no denial. Being geometrical and shaded from light tans and grays to the darkest, it is a quilt which would be very pleasing in a modern interior.
The quilt is owned by Mrs. Augusta Henning, 3995 Bewick avenue, and is made entirely of satin. The strips are more than an inch wide, and this quilt shows just another of the many ways which a Log Cabin design may be put together.
There could have been three rows of the whole square on the diagonal, but for the sake of individuality, the half squares at each side are really very attractive. They also form a border at the sides, which is somewhat unusual for a Log Cabin quilt.
Several more ribbon award quilts are to be shown from time to time, until all have been illustrated.
So many have written to say that they were glad to have these quilts included in the Corner and if there are any suggestions as to what the various members and readers think would be interesting. I wish these would be written in to the Corner. Every suggestion will be given consideration.
Every day in the Corner there will be a coupon for the convenience of those who wish to be members of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club. This is not necessary, but has the advantage of putting you on the mailing list when anything of importance is to be told.
There are hundreds of readers and writers to the Corner who have never joined, but that does not make any difference. Their letters are welcome just the same and I hope that they will continue to write from time to time.
Next week the first leaflet of the new quilt is to be announced and as much as I would like to tell you about it now. I would like to tell you about it now. I am not going to tell even a small part of the secret. So you watch this Corner on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
Family Quilting Bee.
Although Christmas is just around the corner, there are always mo-...(clipping cut-off)
Doll Quilt Pattern Is Ready for You
The first quilt pattern to be offered since the Contest is ready and waiting for you to send or call for it and you will be pleased and surprised to know that it is for a doll’s quilt.
At just this time of the year, a pattern such as this should be very welcome for I am sure that you have overheard more than one conversation between dolls: and they say that even dolls are talking about quilts now, so it is only probable that every doll has been wishing for one for Christmas.
If you would like to have a reprint of this leaflet, please send your request for it, accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, to either the Beauty in the Home Department or the Quilt Club Corner, The Detroit News.
Copies may be secured by calling personally at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the General Motors Building or the Majestic Building.
Pontiac residents may secure this leaflet at The Detroit News Pontiac Bureau, 412 Pontiac Bank Building.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
Here Is Log Cabin Quilt That Has Modern Effect
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.
That an antique quilt may appear modern seems a bit unusual, but in the accompanying illustration is one of the antiques which took a prize at The Detroit News Contest, and that it has a modern feeling there is no denial. Being geometrical and shaded from light tans and grays to the darkest, it is a quilt which would be very pleasing in a modern interior.
The quilt is owned by Mrs. Augusta Henning, 3995 Bewick avenue, and is made entirely of satin. The strips are more than an inch wide, and this quilt shows just another of the many ways which a Log Cabin design may be put together.
There could have been three rows of the whole square on the diagonal, but for the sake of individuality, the half squares at each side are really very attractive. They also form a border at the sides, which is somewhat unusual for a Log Cabin quilt.
Several more ribbon award quilts are to be shown from time to time, until all have been illustrated.
So many have written to say that they were glad to have these quilts included in the Corner and if there are any suggestions as to what the various members and readers think would be interesting. I wish these would be written in to the Corner. Every suggestion will be given consideration.
Every day in the Corner there will be a coupon for the convenience of those who wish to be members of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club. This is not necessary, but has the advantage of putting you on the mailing list when anything of importance is to be told.
There are hundreds of readers and writers to the Corner who have never joined, but that does not make any difference. Their letters are welcome just the same and I hope that they will continue to write from time to time.
Next week the first leaflet of the new quilt is to be announced and as much as I would like to tell you about it now. I would like to tell you about it now. I am not going to tell even a small part of the secret. So you watch this Corner on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
Family Quilting Bee.
Although Christmas is just around the corner, there are always mo-...(clipping cut-off)
Doll Quilt Pattern Is Ready for You
The first quilt pattern to be offered since the Contest is ready and waiting for you to send or call for it and you will be pleased and surprised to know that it is for a doll’s quilt.
At just this time of the year, a pattern such as this should be very welcome for I am sure that you have overheard more than one conversation between dolls: and they say that even dolls are talking about quilts now, so it is only probable that every doll has been wishing for one for Christmas.
If you would like to have a reprint of this leaflet, please send your request for it, accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope, to either the Beauty in the Home Department or the Quilt Club Corner, The Detroit News.
Copies may be secured by calling personally at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in either the General Motors Building or the Majestic Building.
Pontiac residents may secure this leaflet at The Detroit News Pontiac Bureau, 412 Pontiac Bank Building.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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