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Here’s a Happy and Jolly Home-makers’ Club

January 18, 1934
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Lynne Charlet; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner column including an advertisement for the Calico Nosegay Quilt pattern and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
Here’s a Happy and Jolly Home-makers’ Club
STANDING, left to right: Mrs. Daisy Ray, Mrs. Doris Rickett, Mrs. Dora Lemkie, Mrs. Anna Martin, Mrs. Florence Renner, Mrs. Ida Gardner, Mrs. Ferna Deardoff and Mrs. Rosella Amo. Sitting, left to right: Mrs. Mary Burnet, Mrs. Agnes Murphy, Mrs. Myrtle Westcott, Mrs. Marguerite de Champlain, Mrs. Leola Parkyn, Mrs. Violet Tolson and Mrs. Mande Sandford.
Quilt Club Corner.
Here Are 15 Industrious Quilters Ready to Start on New Horoscope

By EDITH B. CRUMB.

WHEN the Jolly Homemakers’ Club gets together at the Brightmoor Community Center, 14115 Westbrook avenue, every Monday evening there is a general atmosphere of fun and industry.

Quilting, of course, comes first in line and in the illustration is shown half of the Club centered about a guilt which was made by Mrs. Sandford. Mrs. Sanford tried so hard to get this finished for the Contest, but now that it is ready for quilting this Club will make short work of it and I know that Mrs. Sanford will keep it carefully with a view to showing it in the next Contest—if there is one.

There is always a quilt on the frames for this club, but quilting is not all that is done by these Jolly Home-makers. Each pieces her own top and then all lend a hand in the quilting.

Aside from quilt-making, there are hooked rugs well under way, doll furniture is build, lamp shades made and all kinds of embroidery is being done. Luncheon sets with gay bouquets in the corners, aprons decorated with bright sprays of flowers, towels and other household necessities al come within the scoop of this home-makers club.

At The Detroit News Quilt contest there were many quilts entered by the members of this club and they were also kind enough to lend an attractive poster that they had made from the pattern of the little Patchwork Lady, which has become such a favorite.

I noticed a Quilt Club Corner scrap book out at this Community House—the first I have seen, (although I have read about many of them) and it was certainly very interesting. If you are making a scrap book, don’t you want a silhouette of this quaint little lady, so busily at work on a quilt? It will make such an ideal decoration for the cover. All you have to do to receive this silhouette is to send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request for it to the Beauty in the Home Department or The Quilt Club Corner, The Detroit News, and it will be sent right out to you. Please send an envelope which measures at least five by six inches so that the silhouette will not be folded. There have been so many requests for this picture that I thought you would be glad to know that a new supply has been printed and is waiting for you.

Letter from Toledo.
Greetings to the corner and all the members. I’ve been wanting to write to congratulate all the contributors on the success of the quilt show. What a wonderful display!

I spent Friday at the show, Mrs. Hovey (she and I have been corresponding, and what a lovely person she is) met me, and we had a thrilling time. I’m still seeing those lovely quilts in my sleep. I do hope you have another show next year.

I wish Mrs. Weissmueller would let us know just how much material it took to make her Trip Around the World. I think it was just beautiful. There were crowds around us all the time.

I do not get the daily here in Toledo but we always get the Sunday News and I enjoy your column so much—also the broadcast on Tuesday. Then I can picture hundreds of quilters listen in, can you? What a wonderful art, but it’s so easy in these modern times. When I looked at the antiques I marveled at the patience of those pioneer mothers. They had to spin, weave and dye the cloth. Not a scrap was wasted and the result was so many interesting designs of tiny scraps.
MRS. VINCENT KORNET,
Toledo, Ohio.

You were very loyal, Mrs. Kornet, to come up here for the show in that disagreeable weather and your efforts are certainly appreciated. From your letter I would say that you are glad you came.

It made it much nicer for you because you met Mrs. Hovey. You must have felt very well acquainted with her after corresponding with her.

Many are hoping that Mrs. Weissmueller will write in and if she hears your letter over the radio or reads it in the paper, perhaps she will spare a little time for writing a letter to the Corner.

Like you, many enjoyed the antique quilt section, and, as you say, the contrast is interesting. We do not appreciate how simple it is to gather materials for a quilt without a thought to the process of manufacture.

Do not let much time elapse before writing to the Corner again. Your letters will always be welcome.

Another Bouquet For Nosegay Quilt
This one has a center of sprigged calico and shows some of the stems and leaves of the flowers.

It is leaflet number 3, now ready for the makers of the old-fashioned Nosegay Quilt, and will be sent to any one who sends a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Quilt Corner.

Those who prefer to make a single flower instead of a nosegay might like to begin the Flower Garden Quilt made by Quilt members last year.

Leaflets of either set will be sent upon request, but not more than three can be carried by one stamp.

Copies may be called for at The Detroit News Public Service Bureau in the Majestic Building, the General Motors Building, and the Pontiac Bank Building, Pontiac.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
6119.43P, 6268.1.34

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