October 02, 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 an announcement of the prizes for the Quilt Club Contest.

Beauty in the Home
$500 To Be Distributed for Quilt Contest Prizes
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.

Here is something you have been looking for for a long time - the prizes offered for the Quilt Contest.
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.

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There will be ribbon awards for the antique quilts and coverlets. Pictures will be taken of the prize winning antique quilts and their owners and stroies of their history given in the paper.

And now little girls and big girls, young ladies and dear old ladeis remember that your applications for entry must be in not later than October 15th and even though you have not time enough to quilt or have a top quilted you may enter a top. I heard a woman say the other day that she had 12 tops that she had never had quilted and in order to include every quilt-maker in the Contest, tops alone are to be allowed.

If you have not alreay sent in your application, please do so as quickly as possible. And why not write a note to the Corner? The quilt Club Corner is broadcast over WWJ every Tuesday at 10:15 a. m. at which time letters from the members are read and answered and letters are printed each night in the Quilt Club Corner section of the Beauty in the Home. Why not join our circle if you have been a silent member as so many have, but are now writing regularly

Mrs. Oscar Miller called me on Sunday but I was not home. I don't like to miss any of the Club members. I would be delighted to have them call and exchange patchers or patterns. I am trying to...(clipping cut-off)

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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