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Beauty in Home Quilt Club Members Send Helpful Messages to Workers
January 15, 1933
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner column featuring letters from members.
Beauty in Home Quilt Club Members Send Helpful Messages to Workers
That Exhibit Will Be Worth Seeing If All Those Lovely Patterns Are Completed And Sent In.
By EDITH B. CRUMB
IT is easy to understand what is going on in a good many households now—the festivities being over, routine has again returned and there is more time for quiltmaking and letter writing and the Quilt Club Corner is certainly coming in for its share of correspondence. So here are some of the letters which have been received just in time for the Sunday page.
I WOULD like to tell the Quilt Club Members what the Detroit News Wonder Package means to me.
First I must tell you that I have a large box of embroidery patterns which I collected in the years from 1910 to 1916 while living in Pennsylvania.
In the last 15 years that I have lived in Detroit these same patterns have been used for stamping all kinds of articles to be worked for sale at bazaars which I have been interested in.
It is easy to take a portion of a shirtwaist or doily pattern and put an attractive design on an apron, pillow case or luncheon set. Now these patterns, brittle and yellow with age, will be stored away as antiques.
This Wonder Package of patterns is truly wonderful and as I look through them I like to think of the many pretty things I will be able to make in the next 20 years, for the package contains just every design one could want.
I appreciate the quilt patterns I have received through The Detroit News and I am very busy piecing.
MRS. B.S.
So happy, Mrs. S., to know that you are so delighted with the Wonder Package. It certainly came at just the right time for you, didn't it?
I ENJOY your Quilt Corner very much. I have made six quilts in one year. Please send me the Double Wedding Ring, Dresden Plate and Flying Cloud. I want the first two to send to my sister. I have used mine so much I can’t see the lines any more.
Wishing you all success with your Club.
MRS. E.C.B.
Six quilts in one year! You certainly must have been a busy lady to get all of those finished in that time.
WOULD like to join the Quilt Club. I have finished the Dresden Plate quilt and it is beautiful. Am also making the Flower Garden and the Double Wedding Ring.
MRS. G.B.C.
Glad you like those three patterns and know that all of your quilts must be very lovely. Do write again, Mrs. C.
I ENJOY reading your Quilt Corner and can hardly wait to see all the letters that the members write. I have pieced two tops from the Dresden Plate pattern and am also working on the Double Wedding Ring quilt.
I wonder if any of the members can tell me how many pieces it takes to make the top of the quilt. I haven’t the leaflet from The News. This was just passed along to me so I do not know how many pieces to cut.
MRS. A.A.
If you had put your name and address on your letter, Mrs. A. I would gladly have sent you a pattern for the Double Wedding Ring. This is still being sent out by this department so if you will write again and enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request, it will be forwarded to you.
I HAVE been interested in quiltmaking for many years but not until it became so popular have I done any real work. I’ve finished three quilts—Dresden Plate, Jacob’s Club Members Send Messages
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Ladder and the Philadelphia Pavement. Might enter one if I may be a member.
I find the Quilt Club Corner very interesting and if there are any quilt-makers in my neighborhood would like to meet them so as to get some suggestions.
MRS. AGNES C. BLAKA
5605 Martindale S., Detroit, Mich.
Now that you have such a good start at quilt-making, I suppose nothing could stop you. Of course, you are a member of the Quilt Club with those three News pattern quilts to your credit and you simply must not fail to participate in the contest.
I ENJOY reading the Quilt Club Corner and wonder if Mrs. J.L.D. would pass her diagram along for quilting the Dresden Plate.
I have made many quilts and am very anxious to see the Horoscope quilt finished as it is different from any other I have made. Piecing quilts is surely a remedy for the “blues.”
MRS. MINNIE TRUMAN,
Reed City, Mich.
I have used your name and address, Mrs. T., so that Mrs. J.L.D. can write to you if she wishes to pass on her Dresden Plate diagram.
Yes, you will find the Horoscope quilt very different, but I am sure you will be delighted with it.
I READ your column every day and surely enjoy it. In the paper on January 5 was a letter from Mrs. J.L.D. asking for the name of the lady who wrote and wanted the pattern for quilting the Dresden Plate. I am making my first quilt which happens to be the Dresden Plate and would also like the pattern. If Mrs. J.L.D. would have time to send me one. I would surely appreciate it very much.
I have never had occasion to write before but may come back soon and let you know how my quilt looks when it is finished, if I may.
MRS. R.A. SMITH,
Box 383, East Tawas, Mich.
Have also used your name for Mrs. D’s convenience and trust that you hear from her.
By all means, write and let us know how you like your quilt when it is finished and I hope that you will be able to enter the contest.
I AM sending a letter that my little brother has written for the Quilt Club Corner. He is not sick, but sews because he likes it.
I have had no trouble with my Horoscope quilt. I am buttonholing the stars and signs in position. Best wish to the members.
HELEN MORTON,
R. 2, Box 190, Belleville, Mich.
That’s a real pleasure—to receive a letter from a little boy and I wish some more would write.
Am glad to know that you are making acquaintances through the Quilt Club Corner. Hope to hear from you again.
AND here is the letter from Miss Morton’s little brother:
I am a boy nine years old and like to piece quilts. I made the blocks for the Flower Garden quilt. I watch my mother and sister working on their Horoscope quilts.
I am etching the Flower Garden blocks and have nine flowers and five green leaves done for the border. I like to do it.
I am in the fifth grade at school. Wish you good luck.
WESTLEY MORTON,
R. 2, Box 190, Belleville, Mich.
Thank you so much Wesley, for writing that letter to the Quilt Club Corner. The readers will be very interested in it and maybe you will hear from some of them.
The next time you write—and I hope you do write again—why not send in a membership blank for you are certainly eligible and may have your Flower Garden quilt finished for the contest?
Am glad to know that you are making acquaintances through the Quilt Club Corner. Hope to hear from you again.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
That Exhibit Will Be Worth Seeing If All Those Lovely Patterns Are Completed And Sent In.
By EDITH B. CRUMB
IT is easy to understand what is going on in a good many households now—the festivities being over, routine has again returned and there is more time for quiltmaking and letter writing and the Quilt Club Corner is certainly coming in for its share of correspondence. So here are some of the letters which have been received just in time for the Sunday page.
I WOULD like to tell the Quilt Club Members what the Detroit News Wonder Package means to me.
First I must tell you that I have a large box of embroidery patterns which I collected in the years from 1910 to 1916 while living in Pennsylvania.
In the last 15 years that I have lived in Detroit these same patterns have been used for stamping all kinds of articles to be worked for sale at bazaars which I have been interested in.
It is easy to take a portion of a shirtwaist or doily pattern and put an attractive design on an apron, pillow case or luncheon set. Now these patterns, brittle and yellow with age, will be stored away as antiques.
This Wonder Package of patterns is truly wonderful and as I look through them I like to think of the many pretty things I will be able to make in the next 20 years, for the package contains just every design one could want.
I appreciate the quilt patterns I have received through The Detroit News and I am very busy piecing.
MRS. B.S.
So happy, Mrs. S., to know that you are so delighted with the Wonder Package. It certainly came at just the right time for you, didn't it?
I ENJOY your Quilt Corner very much. I have made six quilts in one year. Please send me the Double Wedding Ring, Dresden Plate and Flying Cloud. I want the first two to send to my sister. I have used mine so much I can’t see the lines any more.
Wishing you all success with your Club.
MRS. E.C.B.
Six quilts in one year! You certainly must have been a busy lady to get all of those finished in that time.
WOULD like to join the Quilt Club. I have finished the Dresden Plate quilt and it is beautiful. Am also making the Flower Garden and the Double Wedding Ring.
MRS. G.B.C.
Glad you like those three patterns and know that all of your quilts must be very lovely. Do write again, Mrs. C.
I ENJOY reading your Quilt Corner and can hardly wait to see all the letters that the members write. I have pieced two tops from the Dresden Plate pattern and am also working on the Double Wedding Ring quilt.
I wonder if any of the members can tell me how many pieces it takes to make the top of the quilt. I haven’t the leaflet from The News. This was just passed along to me so I do not know how many pieces to cut.
MRS. A.A.
If you had put your name and address on your letter, Mrs. A. I would gladly have sent you a pattern for the Double Wedding Ring. This is still being sent out by this department so if you will write again and enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request, it will be forwarded to you.
I HAVE been interested in quiltmaking for many years but not until it became so popular have I done any real work. I’ve finished three quilts—Dresden Plate, Jacob’s Club Members Send Messages
(Concluded From Page 8)
Ladder and the Philadelphia Pavement. Might enter one if I may be a member.
I find the Quilt Club Corner very interesting and if there are any quilt-makers in my neighborhood would like to meet them so as to get some suggestions.
MRS. AGNES C. BLAKA
5605 Martindale S., Detroit, Mich.
Now that you have such a good start at quilt-making, I suppose nothing could stop you. Of course, you are a member of the Quilt Club with those three News pattern quilts to your credit and you simply must not fail to participate in the contest.
I ENJOY reading the Quilt Club Corner and wonder if Mrs. J.L.D. would pass her diagram along for quilting the Dresden Plate.
I have made many quilts and am very anxious to see the Horoscope quilt finished as it is different from any other I have made. Piecing quilts is surely a remedy for the “blues.”
MRS. MINNIE TRUMAN,
Reed City, Mich.
I have used your name and address, Mrs. T., so that Mrs. J.L.D. can write to you if she wishes to pass on her Dresden Plate diagram.
Yes, you will find the Horoscope quilt very different, but I am sure you will be delighted with it.
I READ your column every day and surely enjoy it. In the paper on January 5 was a letter from Mrs. J.L.D. asking for the name of the lady who wrote and wanted the pattern for quilting the Dresden Plate. I am making my first quilt which happens to be the Dresden Plate and would also like the pattern. If Mrs. J.L.D. would have time to send me one. I would surely appreciate it very much.
I have never had occasion to write before but may come back soon and let you know how my quilt looks when it is finished, if I may.
MRS. R.A. SMITH,
Box 383, East Tawas, Mich.
Have also used your name for Mrs. D’s convenience and trust that you hear from her.
By all means, write and let us know how you like your quilt when it is finished and I hope that you will be able to enter the contest.
I AM sending a letter that my little brother has written for the Quilt Club Corner. He is not sick, but sews because he likes it.
I have had no trouble with my Horoscope quilt. I am buttonholing the stars and signs in position. Best wish to the members.
HELEN MORTON,
R. 2, Box 190, Belleville, Mich.
That’s a real pleasure—to receive a letter from a little boy and I wish some more would write.
Am glad to know that you are making acquaintances through the Quilt Club Corner. Hope to hear from you again.
AND here is the letter from Miss Morton’s little brother:
I am a boy nine years old and like to piece quilts. I made the blocks for the Flower Garden quilt. I watch my mother and sister working on their Horoscope quilts.
I am etching the Flower Garden blocks and have nine flowers and five green leaves done for the border. I like to do it.
I am in the fifth grade at school. Wish you good luck.
WESTLEY MORTON,
R. 2, Box 190, Belleville, Mich.
Thank you so much Wesley, for writing that letter to the Quilt Club Corner. The readers will be very interested in it and maybe you will hear from some of them.
The next time you write—and I hope you do write again—why not send in a membership blank for you are certainly eligible and may have your Flower Garden quilt finished for the contest?
Am glad to know that you are making acquaintances through the Quilt Club Corner. Hope to hear from you again.
Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
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