December 7, 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.
Another Log Cabin Quilt Shows Pattern Variation
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.

ANOTHER Log Cabin quilt is illustrated here and I hope that you have saved the clippings of the others so that you can see the difference, how each has been made up of the same kind of blocks and yet each is attractive and not exactly like any other.

Monday the quilt had a light center and today the center is dark, this being achieved by switching the blocks from corner to corner. It must have been interesting for anyone making a Log Cabin quilt to take the squares and see how differently they could have been arranged, for there are so many combinations, some having nothing but light and dark diagonal lines (and I’ll show you one of these things on Saturday), others in diamond shape and some with small light and dark parts that resembled hour glasses.

The quilt as shown today won a ribbon award at the Quilt Exhibit and was entered by Mrs. W. J. Pascoe, 8346 Bryden Avenue, Detroit. This quilt was made in 1873 by Mrs. Anna Castlet.

If all goes well, I will be able to announce a new quilt pattern next Tuesday and you will never in the world be able to guess what it is or for whom it is to be made. It comes at just the right time of the year and I am sure that a good many of you will appreciate it. Because I know that you will want it before Christmas I am going to announce it first and then on Thursday I will put in a picture of the new applique quilt that I am sure you are just going to start right in and make because it is going to be such fun. It may be puzzling at first but that is going to make it so much more interesting than one that is too easy and does not require study.

A letter just reached me from Mrs. Mary Strobilius, 17457 Lumkin avenue, Detroit, saying that she had found her gloves. She was fortunate in getting back (after the notice in the paper) through the kindness of Mrs. George Virgin, of Ferndale. She had picked them up off the floor during a patch-exchange session. I thought you might be interested to know what results that little notice brought; and I am happy for Mrs. Strobilius, for she felt very badly about losing this particular pair of gloves.

Please don’t forget to write a few words, even a postal card will do, to the Quilt Club Corner. Please write as soon as possible for, remember, in spite of the few days’ vacation, the Quilt Club Corner must go on so if you get these letters in early you will be helping to make my holiday a happier one because I have been able to prepare my column ahead a few days. Will you help me, please?

Quilt Club Corner.
MRS. CARROW and I started that 50-mile drive in a snow storm and on icy pavements but considered it well worth the effort. Now, aren’t we loyal members?

I thought the Trip Around the World quilt made by Marie Weismuller, of Lincoln Park, was particularly lovely. It was shaded in rainbow colors. I went back again and again to admire it and judging from the enthusiastic group sketching it each time I know that many others besides myself must have decided to go home and make one like it.

I wonder if the quilting hoop could be used as a hooked rug frame.

Kindest regards to the members and best wishes for continued success to the Beauty in the Home Department.
MARY DEVEREAUX,
502 Jewett street, Howell, Mich.

Indeed, you and Mrs. Carrow are loyal members, Mrs. Devereaux, and I would not have blamed you one bit if you had turned around and gone home a few miles out of Howell. I am delighted to think that you attended, however.

I saw a good many people making sketches and notes of colors and know that there must have been a good many who had never made quilts before decided to start one now. I heard bits of conversation here and there for I was walking around the hall most of the time. Then sometimes I would go up on the balcony or back to my Corner.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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