October 10, 1933

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Lynne Charlet

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Beauty in the Home column including an announcement about the Quilt Club Contest.

Beauty in the Home
Dates Set For Contest Are Nov. 17, 18, 19
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.

The dates for the Quilt Contest have been decided upon and now you will know just how much time you will have to finish your tops or quilts. This Contest will be held November 17, 18 and 19, at the United States Naval Armory, located on East Jefferson avenue just east of the Belle Isle bridge.

You now have over four weeks to prepare a quilt or top for the Contest or to look through your attic treasures and find some quilt, 50 or more years old to enter in the antique section. There are to be some very interesting quilts among the old ones as well as very beautiful ones among the new ones.

If your quilt is new it must be made from a Detroit News pattern and it may be either a completed quilt or just a top.

Please watch this column after the first of November, so that you will know just when and where your quilt is to be entered.

Please print your name and address on a stiff piece of cloth and sew it to the back of your quilt, in order that there will be no confusion as to the identity of it. Every effort will be made to protect your quilts in every way and you need have no fear as to their safety.

You have no idea of the number of applications for entry which have been received and are being received daily. I hope that everyone who has made a quilt from a Detroit News pattern will either have a top or a quilt ready for the Contest. Church circles that have made quilts are also invited to enter.

All are invited to come. Many, many who are not quilt-makers are interested enough in them to wish to see a large number under one roof and this is what is sure to happen, so be among those present even if you have no quilt to enter.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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