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Laurel Wreath Quilt - Leaflet No. 23

July 15, 1935
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
The twenty-third leaflet in the Laurel Wreath Quilt Pattern series.
The Detroit News
Public Service Bureau
Radio Station WWJ The Home Newspaper Interior Decoration
Laurel Wreath Quilt - Leaflet No. 23
Houstonia


This flower called the Houstonia is also known as the "bluet" or "innocence." It grows in the fields and blossoms almost continually from April until July. The stems are slender little things about four or five inches high. The leaves are tiny, some of them being whorled. The flower is pale blue, sometimes pale violet, and is stained with yellow. Do you recognize it?

Of course, it has been magnified greatly but it had to be the same size of the rest of the flowers so that it could be included in this quilt.

This starts the last row of flowers. It comes directly under the cedar wax-wing if you keep the blocks as originally arranged. But this is not necessary for you might wish to arrange them differently to distribute the colors you have specially selected.

This is to be appliqued on to a square measuring 12 1/2 inches by 12 1/2 inches.

There will be 10 pieces in all, two leaves, one stem, two calyxes, three flowers and two top petal arrangements.

The flowers may be developed in plain and figured prints.

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Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
2016:5.68; 6119.85.45.25

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