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Top of Geometrical Design Won Ribbon at Contest
December 28, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Lynne Charlet; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner column including an advertisement for the Calico Nosegay Quilt pattern, a coupon for Quilt Club membership, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Quilt Club Corner.
Top of Geometrical Design Won Ribbon at 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.
ALTHOUGH the women in the early families were given no credit as being mathematicians, it is interesting to note with what precision some of the old quilt patterns have been calculated and it is said that 99 per cent of all pieced quilts represent the working out of geometrical designs.
In the accompanying illustration is shown one of the pieced quilt tops which won a ribbon award at The Detroit News Contest and this top is a good example of the neatness with which the geometrical designs might be laid out.
Every block of this quilt top was made up of two large triangles, one white and one figured. 156 small white triangles and 16 figured ones; and then each block was supposed to be laid in the same position. But don’t you think that sometimes a mistake will make a quilt more interesting. If you will study the top as shown you will see that one of the blocks in the outer edge has been reversed. This, of course, could not have been intentional and it is likely that it was not noticed until the quilt was so nearly finished that to remove and replace the block appeared to be a hopeless task and the maker probably uttered words equal to our own generation’s “Well that’s that!” and let it go. To me, the quilt would have lost a certain amount of charm if it had been too precise in its makeup.
There was little or no thought to the arrangement of the stripes, for some were perpendicular while others were horizontal.
However, the workmanship was very fine and the materials of which it was made were quaint and made one wish that they could be reproduced today.
This quilt top is owned by Mrs. A. J. Haigh, 819 Barrington Road, Grosse Pointe.
Little Mary Katherine Pinney (eight years of age) came in this afternoon looking for a quilt pattern so that she might use it to make a quit for her little sister. She took several designs along with her and she will talk all of them over with her mother and I don’t think it will be long before several blocks will be finished for this baby quilt. I hope that Mary Katherine will write to the Corner and tell what pattern she selected, the color scheme and size.
Glad to See Corner.
I am so glad to see the Corner members writing in and keeping the Quilt Corner going.
The Quilt Exhibit of course was a grand success. I enjoyed every minute of the three days I was there, and then only felt as though I had scratched the surface as far as seeing all I wanted.
Mrs. Purcell enjoyed it a lot, too, and the two weeks that she was here just went by like lightning. There was so much to see and do.
We will all look forward and be prepared for the next exhibit. You may as well prepare a larger hall and plan to keep it open about a week.
MRS. O. D. MacLEOD,
10092 Morley, Detroit, Mich.
Mrs.MacLeod is certainly looking forward to a bigger exhibit and if one is to be held I do not see why that should not come to pass.
The Corner members are certainly being nice about writing in. Of course they realize that that is the only wat to keep the Corner going and as this is the only column of its kind, don’t you think it ought to be bigger and better?
I am happy to know that you enjoyed the Exhibit and glad to hear that Mrs. Purcell had such a fine time up here. Do you suppose she would come again if there is to be an Exhibit.
Mrs. St. D. Writes Again.
It has been some time since I have written in to the Corner. I was out to the Contest and enjoyed it very much. I never saw so many pretty quilts and I was very sorry that I did not see Gran.
I listened to the Corner over the radio last Tuesday. You read a letter from a lady who said she was making the Double Wedding Ring 12 inches square and you said you would like to see it. I have one entered in the Exhibit that was 13 and one-half inches across. I thought it was quite pretty.
I hope the corner continues. I wish the Contest could have lasted for one week.
MRS. ST. D.
I think I remember seeing your quilt at the Exhibit, Mrs. St. D., and think it was very attractive. There would be so little difference that I imagine yours and hers must have looked a great deal alike.
I am glad that you had an opportunity to attend the Contest, but sorry that you missed meeting Gran.
Everyone interested in quilts hopes that the Corner continues and I am sure that each is going to write letters and make sure that it does. May I count you among those loyal ones?
Save the Pieces for This Calico Nosegay Quilt
Even the little scraps and corners of bright prints will find places in the delightful new nosegay quilt pattern which is all ready for Detroit News Quilt club members. Write now and ask for the first leaflet which gives the first nosegay and full directions for making the new quilt. Address Quilt Club Corner, Detroit News, and enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. The leaflet is free.
Copies may be called for at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, and the Pontiac Bank Building, Pontiac.
Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as a member of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club.
Name………………
Street and number……………
City………………………State…………………
This enrollment in the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club entitles the member to enter her quilt in the exhibit which will be held after the completion of the series of Horoscope patterns. Date of announcement will be made later.
Anyone who has completed a quilt from any Detroit News pattern will be eligible to become a member and enter this contest.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
Top of Geometrical Design Won Ribbon at 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.
ALTHOUGH the women in the early families were given no credit as being mathematicians, it is interesting to note with what precision some of the old quilt patterns have been calculated and it is said that 99 per cent of all pieced quilts represent the working out of geometrical designs.
In the accompanying illustration is shown one of the pieced quilt tops which won a ribbon award at The Detroit News Contest and this top is a good example of the neatness with which the geometrical designs might be laid out.
Every block of this quilt top was made up of two large triangles, one white and one figured. 156 small white triangles and 16 figured ones; and then each block was supposed to be laid in the same position. But don’t you think that sometimes a mistake will make a quilt more interesting. If you will study the top as shown you will see that one of the blocks in the outer edge has been reversed. This, of course, could not have been intentional and it is likely that it was not noticed until the quilt was so nearly finished that to remove and replace the block appeared to be a hopeless task and the maker probably uttered words equal to our own generation’s “Well that’s that!” and let it go. To me, the quilt would have lost a certain amount of charm if it had been too precise in its makeup.
There was little or no thought to the arrangement of the stripes, for some were perpendicular while others were horizontal.
However, the workmanship was very fine and the materials of which it was made were quaint and made one wish that they could be reproduced today.
This quilt top is owned by Mrs. A. J. Haigh, 819 Barrington Road, Grosse Pointe.
Little Mary Katherine Pinney (eight years of age) came in this afternoon looking for a quilt pattern so that she might use it to make a quit for her little sister. She took several designs along with her and she will talk all of them over with her mother and I don’t think it will be long before several blocks will be finished for this baby quilt. I hope that Mary Katherine will write to the Corner and tell what pattern she selected, the color scheme and size.
Glad to See Corner.
I am so glad to see the Corner members writing in and keeping the Quilt Corner going.
The Quilt Exhibit of course was a grand success. I enjoyed every minute of the three days I was there, and then only felt as though I had scratched the surface as far as seeing all I wanted.
Mrs. Purcell enjoyed it a lot, too, and the two weeks that she was here just went by like lightning. There was so much to see and do.
We will all look forward and be prepared for the next exhibit. You may as well prepare a larger hall and plan to keep it open about a week.
MRS. O. D. MacLEOD,
10092 Morley, Detroit, Mich.
Mrs.MacLeod is certainly looking forward to a bigger exhibit and if one is to be held I do not see why that should not come to pass.
The Corner members are certainly being nice about writing in. Of course they realize that that is the only wat to keep the Corner going and as this is the only column of its kind, don’t you think it ought to be bigger and better?
I am happy to know that you enjoyed the Exhibit and glad to hear that Mrs. Purcell had such a fine time up here. Do you suppose she would come again if there is to be an Exhibit.
Mrs. St. D. Writes Again.
It has been some time since I have written in to the Corner. I was out to the Contest and enjoyed it very much. I never saw so many pretty quilts and I was very sorry that I did not see Gran.
I listened to the Corner over the radio last Tuesday. You read a letter from a lady who said she was making the Double Wedding Ring 12 inches square and you said you would like to see it. I have one entered in the Exhibit that was 13 and one-half inches across. I thought it was quite pretty.
I hope the corner continues. I wish the Contest could have lasted for one week.
MRS. ST. D.
I think I remember seeing your quilt at the Exhibit, Mrs. St. D., and think it was very attractive. There would be so little difference that I imagine yours and hers must have looked a great deal alike.
I am glad that you had an opportunity to attend the Contest, but sorry that you missed meeting Gran.
Everyone interested in quilts hopes that the Corner continues and I am sure that each is going to write letters and make sure that it does. May I count you among those loyal ones?
Save the Pieces for This Calico Nosegay Quilt
Even the little scraps and corners of bright prints will find places in the delightful new nosegay quilt pattern which is all ready for Detroit News Quilt club members. Write now and ask for the first leaflet which gives the first nosegay and full directions for making the new quilt. Address Quilt Club Corner, Detroit News, and enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. The leaflet is free.
Copies may be called for at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, and the Pontiac Bank Building, Pontiac.
Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as a member of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club.
Name………………
Street and number……………
City………………………State…………………
This enrollment in the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club entitles the member to enter her quilt in the exhibit which will be held after the completion of the series of Horoscope patterns. Date of announcement will be made later.
Anyone who has completed a quilt from any Detroit News pattern will be eligible to become a member and enter this contest.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
6119.43.44; 6268.1.16
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