November 18, 1939

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner Column including a birthday list.

Wardrobes for Dolls Keep Cornerites Busy
By Edith B. Crumb

Yesterday at the Quilt Club Corner meeting everybody was interested in looking at the things brought for the Nancy's Belle's bazar.

Mrs. Sylvia Carlen had a baby quilt, Mrs. Gabrielle Baecheroot had several mysterious packages when she arrived and Mrs. Elizabeth Wirth had a very beautiful pair of pillow slips with white laced edged in blue for the trimming.

Mrs. Daniel Korb, Jr., and her daughter, Mrs. Fletcher Armstrong, came with two boxes of doll clothes. In one were nine doll dresses, nine sets of underwear and six house coats for 22 and 24-inch dolls.

Mrs. Korb made a dolls wardrobe for her mother, Mrs. Mary Conroy, to donate to the bazar. The wardrobe includes, coat, hat, slip, underwear, night dress, house coat and every day dress.

Mrs. Armstrong was Edna Marie Kennedy, who won a prize in the little girl's section of the first Detroit News quilt show at the age of 12. She still makes quilts and will probably have two or three for our next show.

Mrs. Maude Moore and Mrs. Jadies Wilde, both members of the Julia Meade James Tent of the Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Highland Park Chapter, came to show us a quilt which they had made to earn money for the organization. It was a lime green and white Double Irish Chain and very beautifully made.

The new members who joined yesterday were Mrs. Jenny Torres, 5439 Baldwin avenue, Detroit, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fiumano, 5439 Baldwin avenue, Detroit, both friends of Mrs. John Seger; Mrs. Viola Wilkinson, 959 Stimson Place, Detroit; Mrs. Maude Moore, 1702 Fullerton avenue, Detroit, and Mrs. Zadie Wilde, 10157 Beechdale avenue, Detroit

Mrs. Florence Garvey is on the last block of her appliqued quilt of Paisley print on egg shell. She has just moved into a new home and has a big room in the basement where she keeps a quilt on the frames all the time.

Miss Mary Gathers has just finished a quilt of blue and many colored prints in what she calls a Globe design. Blue globes are surrounded by pieces like those used for the Necktie quilt. The back is plain blue.

Cornerites' Birthdays
November 23 - Mrs. C. G. Snyder, 686 Colburn Place, Detroit; Mrs. Anna White, 1027 Muir St., E. Hazel Park, Mich.; Mrs. Emma Lemke, 1215 N. Riverside Drive, Marine City, Mich., and Mrs. Edwin Linton, 215 N. State St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

November 24 - Mrs. Harry Cain, 141 3rd St., Cottage Grove, Ore.; Mrs. Margaret Chenchick, 3730 Burns avenue, Detroit, and Mrs. Leah White, 1373 Dougal avenue, Windsor, Ont.

November 25 - Mrs. E. Harwood, Route 2, Linden, Mich.; Mrs. Emma Kirschke, 1242 Lawndale avenue, Detroit, and Mrs. Rose Johnson, 1401 Calvert avenue, Detroit.

November 26 - Mrs. Louise Donohue, 360 Lenox avenue, Detroit.

November 27 - Mrs. Warren Gryseels, 5013 Harding avenue, Detroit; Mrs. F. Fobar, 51 E. Henry St., River Rouge, Mich.; Mrs. Anna Thuener, 18946 Lenore avenue, Detroit; Mrs. R. H. Williams, 9354 Carlin avenue, Detroit; Mrs. Margaret Dial, Route 3, Box 167, Belleville, Mich.; Mrs. E. Wicktor, 1846 Pinecrest Drive, Ferndale, Mich., and Mrs. John Rowe, 18507 12 Mile Road, Roseville, Mich.

November 28 - Mrs. Adda Ostrander, Ordway, South Dakota; Mrs. Gordon Moore, 8415 Navy avenue, Detroit; Mrs. Louis Brichta, 12725 Kentuckly avenue, Detroit, and Adeline Ferrante, 33509 Karl avenue, Farmington Mich (Adeline is 17 years old).

November 29 - Mrs. Alice Noffsinger, 3533 Parker avenue, Dearborn, Mich.; Mrs. Stella Beighley, R.D. 2, New Kensington Pa., and Mrs. Emma Zawatski, 303 Center avenue, Sturgis, Mich.​

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.