August 02, 1941

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner column including a birthday list.

Made from Original Design
Patriotic Quilt
By Edith B. Crumb

Here is Hugh Wesley McGinnies, of Chicago, with a patriotic quilt which his grandmother, Mrs. Florence McGinnies, made for him according to his special directions. He plans to enter it in the next show.

We had a young visitor at the Quilt Club Corner meeting yesterday. Mrs. Florence McGinnies brought her grandson, Hugh Wesley McGinnies who lives at 2 South Mayfield avenue, Chicago, but is visiting here for a while this summer

Hugh's middle name is really Lincoln, but he doesn't like it and he does like his father's name which is Wesley and he asked me to use it in place of Lincoln.

It is not the first time that Hugh has been to a Quilt Club Corner meeting, but when he arrived he had a big suit box and in it was a quilt which his mother had made especially to his order.

He is very patriotic and was very anxious to have a quilt of this type made, so his grandmother designed one in red, white, and blue which she has named the Stars and Stripes Forever.

The background is white and the stars are blue and red, the border strips repeating these colors. All the patches are outlined in quilting so that the quilt is as decorate on the wrong side as on the right.

Mrs. McGinnies is planning to embroider Hugh's name and the date on this quilt, because he will appreciate this in years to come when he wishes to trace the age of it. In the meantime, he is looking forward to starting in the first grade next fall and will be a very busy little boy.

He first became interested in quilts when he saw one she had made of red and white in the Rob Peter to Pay Paul pattern and he gave her no peace until she designed this one for him in red, white, and blue.

Mrs. Edna Plank Long, 480 W. Vernor Highway, came to the meeting yesterday afternoon. She has been absent for some time and we were happy to have her with us again.

Mrs. Elise Kansier brought a big basket of candy to celebrate her birthday. Mrs. Marian Ridler wishes you to remember that there is to be a big white elephant party at Belle Isle next Thursday. And she wants you to bring an extra white elephant which will be donated to the Nancy Belle's Bazar.

The Cornerites are to have a vacation for the month of August and September. No more Friday meetings during this stifling hot weather, and then we will start all over again with a bang on our birthday date in early October.

New patterns will be ready and all will feel just like digging in and making lots and lots of quilts.

Cornerites' Birthdays
August 7 - Mrs. Anna Sackrider, 722 Chevrolet avenue, Flint; Mrs. Dorothy Scott, Box 21, Salem Center, Salem, N. H.; Mrs. Ray Taylor, 26055 Groveland avenue, Royal Oak; Mrs. Clara Moerschell, 20483 Cameron avenue; Mrs. C. F. White, Goodrich; Mrs. Herbert Kottke, 4079 Pinegree avenue; Ursula Small, P.O. Box 19, Inkster.

August 8 - Mrs. Marie Ganzel, Clyde; Mrs. Julia LaFond, 5252 Rathbone avenue.

August 9 - Mrs. Fletcher Armstrong, 3859 Thirty-third street; Mrs. Mildred Broom, 9365 Petoskey avenue; Mrs. Henriette Warner, South Rockwood; Mrs. E. R. Partridge, 910 W. Kirby avenue.

August 10 - Mrs. Eatha Stone 2654 Maplewood avenue, Toledo; Mrs. T. J. Kaiser, 5921 Ternes avenue, Dearborn; Mrs. Stella Stein, 5628 Sherwood avenue; Mrs. Thomas Sturdy, 15054 Petosky avenue; Mrs. Carrie Brigg,s 12744 Inkster road, Route 4, Plymouth; Mrs. D. J. Kuntis, 4665 Seebaldt.

August 11 - Mrs. Leon Pavey, 1006 Batavia street, Royal Oak; Miss May Frabotta, 1429 Rowena avenue.

August 12 - Mrs. R. M. Brown, 1419 Crook street, Flint; Mrs. C. Carda, 4240 Belvidere avenue; Mrs. Joyce Marie Pierce, 95 Springs street, Ypsilanti; Mrs. Annie Winters, 2517 Trumbull.

August 13 - Mrs. Emmett Myers, 5386 Thirty-first street; Mrs. Judith Koschade, 3247 Dickerson avenue.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.