April 02, 1938

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner Column including a member list and a birthday list.

Quilt For Miss One-Week-Old
Here is Mrs. Ted Taylor, 13905 La Salle Blvd., with the quilt she designed by using the Sunbonnet Baby pattern for the center motif and just a few posies and a big bright sun in the upper corner. The quilt will be given to Mrs. Taylor's one-week-old niece, Mary Lynda Lyon, 1102 East Sixth street, Royal Oak.

Visitors and new Members Flock to Corner Meeting
By Edith B. Crumb
Quilt Club Corner Editor, The Detroit News

Even though Mary Lynda Lyon, 1102 E. Sixth street, Royal Oak, is only one week old, she owns a quilt. Her aunt, Mrs. Ted Taylor, 13905 La Salle boulevard, designed one especially for her and I am sure that Mary Lynda is going to think it is the most beautiful quilt in the world.

Mrs. Taylor took the pattern for the Sunbonnet baby and appliqued two of these in the center of the quilt and then thought something ought to be done about the lower part, so she added four posts which left the upper part without anything. Up there she put a big bright shining sun to give those babies a good excuse to wear their big bonnets and that was that- the quilt top was finished.

Before presenting it to Mary Lynda, Mrs. Taylor brought it to the Quilt Club Corner meeting yesterday for all of us to see.

Both of our little four-year-old members were there sewing very busily on their quilt blocks. You remember these little members, don't you? They are Nancy Reynolds and Shirley Zientek. Shirley had a block with her that her nine-year-old brother, Alvin had just finished for he is helping her with her quilt. He told Shirley he thought he ought to have his picture taken too, but she said she didn't think he could because he had too many freckles. But we would like to have Alvin come down so we could take his picture, freckles and all, for we know it would be a very nice picture and we hope he won't disappoint us.

Among the visitors at the Club meeting yesterday were Mrs. Gilbert Riehl, 5266 Montclair avenue, (daughter of Mrs. O. J. Grode); Mrs. M. C. Williams, 14117 Coyle avenue, Mrs. S. A. Earhart, 1290 Fischer avenue; Mrs. Erna Wangenheim, 3509 Springle avenue; Miss Lois Planck (daughter of Mrs. Edna Planck), and Mrs. David Roberts, 674 Field avenue (friend of Mrs. Nellie Welke)

The new members were Mrs. Sarah Burton, 1465 Pagel avenue, Lincoln Park; Mrs. Clara Fleming, 2023 National avenue; Mrs. Johanna Joachim, 5402 Townsend avenue; Mrs. John Rowe, 18507 12 Mile road, Roseville; Mrs. Mary Solkai, 5013 Fischer avenue and Mrs. John Seger, 5457 Baldwin avenue.

The mother of little 10-year-old Frances Bowyer, 21731 Garrison avenue, Dearborn, has written to tell us what a lot of quilt making Frances has done.

She has pieced and knotted a Four Patch into a comforter for her bed and also finished the top of a Double Nine Patch as well as a Drunkard's Patch.

She has a Charm Star, Necktie, and a Dresden Plate pieced and is joining the Charm Star now.

Frances has not been able to go to school for three and a half years because of an automobile accident. She is really a shut-in. Her birthday is April 18 so be sure to watch for it in the list on April 9.

Her mother wonders if any members have some tiny pieces of prints that could be sent to Frances. She has used up all of the pieces she has and would be so pleased and surprised if she received a few. If they only measure one-and-a-half by two inches they will be large enough.

Cornerites Birthday
April 7- Mrs. B. V. Bagley, 637 Dairy St., Flint, Mich.
April 7- Mrs. Charlotte S. Bard, 1129 Wayburn Ave., Detroit.
April 7- Mrs. Wm. Lynch, 6189 Townsend Ave., Detroit.
April 8- Mrs. W. E. Corder, R. No 1, Box 79, Romulus, Mich.
April 8- Mrs. Gabriel Baecheroot, 6580 Garland Ave., Detroit.
April 9- Mrs. S. Pantzer, 186 East Savannah Ave., Detroit.
April 9- Mrs. George Fuller, 4430 French road, Detroit.
April 9- Mrs. Dora Albright, 4844 Nottingham Ave., Detroit.
April 10- Miss Jean Frick, R. R. No. 4, Box 405, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
April 10- Mrs. Paul Zimmerman, 5223 Thirty-first St., Detroit.
April 10- Mrs. Rose Calleja, 5215 French road, Detroit.
April 11- Mrs. O. L. Dibert, 5146 Steadman Ave., Detroit.
April 11- Mrs. B. J. Klingelsmith, 12147 Pinehurst Ave., Detroit.
April 11- Mrs. H. B. Hawkins, 1766 Canfield Ave., Detroit.
April 11- Mrs. Irene Bolde, 8090 Malvern Ave., Detroit.
April 11- Mrs. Anna Dodge, 944 Melbourne Ave., Detroit.
April 12- Mrs. George Weismuller Jr., 1076 Garfield Ave., Lincoln Park.
April 13- Mrs. Alice Wyman, Berville, Mich.
April 13- Mrs. Myrtle Howell, R.F.D. No. 1, Box 87, Birminghma, Mich.
April 13- Mrs. Alice S. Griwswold, 3829 Bennett Ave., Dearborn.

These Members Belong to Quilt Club Corner
Mrs. Ann Birt,
1329 Twenty-ninth st.

Mrs. Edith Bolton,
15430 Stansbury ave.

Frances Bowyer (10 years old),
21731 Garrison ave.,
Dearborn, Mich.

Mrs. Murray Cohen,
13600 Roselawn ave.

Mrs. Betty Drake,
4900 Thirty-third st.

Mrs. Jessie Holden,
8042 Gartner ave.

Mrs. Helen Krigner,
3222 S. Waring ave.

Mrs. Mae Loury,
781 Norwood Ave.,
Youngstown, Ohio.

Mrs. Cora Manley,
2460 Cass ave.

Mrs. Helen Matenkoski, 4975 Thirty-third st.

​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.