November 28, 1933

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner column including letters from Quilt Club Corner members.

Quilt Club Corner.

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 the Beginning of New Corner Column
HERE it is—the first Quilt Club Corner column—all by itself! How do you like the idea? Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday this space is to be devoted to nothing but quilts, and so many have promised to write letters to the Corner that I feel certain it will continue.

So many have wanted to know when the next pattern is to come out—and I will say that it will be very soon. Just watch this column for the first announcement. You are going to be charmed with the new design. You are to have a series of pattern for one quilt and also some single patterns very often. When the Horoscope and Flower Garden patterns were put out, those who did not wish to make them were idle for weeks, so now I am endeavoring to please everybody interested in quilts by giving floral appliques and revisions of the good old geometrical designs. And later on there are to be two quilts that you will certainly want to make; but I am not going to tell you what they are to be for I want them to be a surprise. Don’t you like surprises?

The illustration today shows one of the antique quilts which won a ribbon award and I am sure that all who examined the antique quilts found this a very interesting one. It is done in natural colors, even the little variegated flowers being made of small figured calico. The beauty of this quilts lies not only in very fine stitches but the manner in which it is padded, every flower, leaf and stem standing out in such a way as to appear natural enough to pluck.

Mrs. A. C. Duffy, 126 Beresford avenue, Highland Park, the owner of this rare old spread should be very proud of possessing it and it was very nice of her to bring it to the exhibit in order that all lovers of antique quilts might study its beauty.

Please send in your letters to the Corner as quickly as possible and don’t forget that there is a Quilt Club Corner on the air every Tuesday, at 10:15 a.m., over WWJ.

“Corner” Letters.
IT MUST be about time for me to report again. I have had a little difficult with my Trip. I had to rip out one row. The pattern of the pink was too large to look and cut nicely for such a small block. I am so glad that I ripped it out as I never would have been satisfied in leaving it in. It would always have been a “sore thumb” row.

So many have written and exchanged pieces with me for my Double Wedding Ring quilt that I now have over seven hundred different wedges, but that is still a long way from the necessary 3,360 wedges. I hope some more members will write and exchange pieces, too.

I am interested in colors used for the Trip as I am making one and I am surely enthusiastic about mine. I can see where I can improve on it though, so I guess I will have to make another one.
MRS. N. ALLIN.

Indeed, it is time for you to report again, Mrs. Allin, and the more letters you write to the Corner the larger it will grow and I hope that you will not neglect this important item.

You will be glad that you ripped out that annoying row of pink for you would never have been satisfied with the quilt if it had a color combination that did not please you.

You have done very well, indeed, to have over 700 wedges towards your Double Wedding Ring quilt; and I wish that you had put your address in this letter for, no doubt, you would have other contributions, so when you write again please give your street and number.

If you went to the quilt show, you probably saw a good many ideas for color schemes for the various quilts and I wish you would write and tell the Corner readers what pattern you thinks the most attractive.

I AM enclosing my membership blank to become a member of the Quilt Club Corner. I think it will be great fun and a pleasure to belong. I have three tips made from Detroit News patterns. I would like to quilt two of them soon.
MRS. GRACE HOUGHTEN,
44 Mullet, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Just think—you will soon have three completed quilts and I certainly think you must be very happy about it. Now I wonder what pattern you wish to make one from next. It will be interesting to know.

I SENT in a coupon for membership in the Quilt Club Corner when it was first organized. But I did not see my letter published so I do not know if I am a member. I read the letters every night and enjoy them very much. I get a great many helpful hints from them. I have pieced and quilted the Double Wedding Ring, two Dresden Pates, and two others. I am now working on the Trip Around the World.
MRS. EMMA L. STOCKUM,
14247 Mapleridge, Detroit, Mich.

You name has been in the membership file since Oct. 27, 1932, so, you can see, you are one of the first to belong.

I am so glad to know that you enjoy the letters and trust that you will find time to write occasionally for letters are what keep the Corner going along merrily.

Why don’t you write and tell the Corner readers what you have selected for the color scheme in you Trip Around the World? I think that it would be interesting to know.

I AM enclosing my membership blank and would like to become a member of your circle. I have been one of your silent members for months. I do enjoy the letters so much and have received a number of good ideas from the members. I do not know of anything that I enjoy more than piecing and quilting quilts.

I have five tops ready to quilt. I have a small Double Wedding Ring made from the large pattern cut down so that the circle is only 12 inches across.

I altered my large pattern to make this for my daughter’s doll and like the smaller design so well that I started one for myself.
MRS. L. MORRIS,
6460 Baldwin, Detroit, Mich.

You are certainly welcome as a member of the Quilt Club, Mrs. Morris, and I am so happy to know that you want to belong.

Your idea of making the Double Wedding Ring into a doll’s sized quilt is very interesting and while it would be attractive to have small rings for a large quilt, I should think it would be a great task and take a long time to make such a quilt.

Thank you for writing and be sure to write often to the Corner.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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