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A Few Quilt Club Corner Friends Gather for Meeting at Belle Isle

August 23, 1934
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A portion of a Quilt Club Corner column including a coupon for Quilt Club membership, an advertisement for the Seven Stars quilt block pattern leaflet, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
A Few Quilt Club Corner Friends Gather for Meeting at Belle Isle
Left to Right top row: Mrs. Harriet Brooks, Mrs. Helen Graham, Mrs. Anna Cowper, Mrs. Olga Kuster, Mrs. Sophie Teevin, Mrs. Mary Beeban, Mrs. Nettie Hoyd, Mrs. Cora Shipman, Miss Ethel Mae Beaumont, Mrs. Cora Dickerson, Mrs. Helen Brooke, Mrs. Ethel Lawson, Mrs. Pearl Beaumont, Mrs. Mildred Mitchell, Mrs. Geo. W. Dial, Mrs. C. Voelker, Mrs. Rosabelle Smythe and Mrs. Matilda Apger. Center row: Mrs. Blanche Moore, Mrs. Mary Strobilius, Mrs. Marian A. Ridler, Mrs. Hanna Kresin, Mrs. Jessie Stough, Mrs. Jacob Koester, Mrs. Edward Distler, Mrs. T. J. Sullivan and Mrs. Sue Kosking. Lower row: Mrs. Helen Outland, Miss Rosabelle Smith, Miss Sylvia Beaumont, Mrs. Dorothy Garvey and Mrs. Marian Voelker.


By Edith B. Crumb

It is very easy to think of nice things to do, but takes lots of ambition to carry them out and Mrs. Marian A. Ridler, 7055 Senator avenue, city, thought what a good idea it would be if some of the Quilt Club Corner members got together and each made a friendship block for Gran. She didn't let it go at thinking about it. No, indeed, she sat right down and telephoned and wrote notes to many whose names she had seen in the Quilt Club Corner lately and last Thursday 32 quilt-makers met and spent a delightful day.

Mrs. Ridler furnished the white material so that the background of the quilt would be the same throughout and each quilt-maker brought her own figured material and cut and made a block from the Album pattern with her name through the center.

All of these blocks will be put together and made into a quilt for Gran. Gran, by the way, was invited to this meeting, but was not able to attend; and she surely missed a good old-fashioned picnic for each member brought a lunch and provision was made for Gran also.

Next Thursday, Aug. 30, these same quilt members (and perhaps more, too) will gather at the same place, put the quilt on the frames and finish it. This, of course, provided the weather is fair. But every sincere quilt-maker puts in orders way ahead for good quilt-making weather so it will be a big surprise to me if it rains.

The spot selected for this unique gathering is on the south side of the Island, a little east of the Athletic Field and a patchwork quilt thrown over a park bench marks the location. So if you are out riding next Thursday in the early part of the afternoon, turn your car toward Belle Isle and get a glimpse of quilt-makers "in action."

A New Idea.
This is my second letter to the Corner, but I always listen in to the broadcast and also read the letters in The News and enjoy them all very much.

I have started the Nosegay but do not seem to get along very well, but nevertheless I am going to keep right on working on it. I have exchanged patches with seven of the members and think it is great fun just to see how many nice pretty pieces one can get. Every piece is prettier than the others and one does not know which one she likes best.

I am going to make a 12-inch block and a three-inch triangle and put them on cornerwise and then work in the name of every one who sends me pieces. I have a pretty good start now.
Mrs. George R. Hammond.
2756 Vermont ave., Detroit, Mich.

Well, Mrs. Hammond, your friendship quilt will be very different and I hope that if it is an original design you will enter it in the quilt contest.

You are having lots of fun exchanging patches. It must be exciting to see those letters and packages coming in and never knowing just what they contain.

Enthusiastic Response.
I wish to thank you for printing my letter in The News July 29. I have had such a wonderful response. I think that I received about 700 piecs (no two alike) from about 35 different ladies and they are still coming. The material is lovely and the array of colors very beautiful. I have tried to answer each and every one but in case I forgot to send patches to any one in exchange for hers if she will just drop me a card I will be glad to take care of it. I now have almost enough for my Jacob's Coat, and am saving the small pieces for either a Double Wedding Ring or the Nosegay.

I have pieced quilts since I was 10 years old and I think that I can make a Nosegay if I try.

I wish to thank each and every one of the ladies again. I never had so much enjoyment out of anything before.
Mrs. George, Fuller,
4430 French Road, Detroit, Mich.

It was certainly thoughtful of you to write the letter in to the Corner and let us know what response you had to your request for exchange of patches.

Don't you think that you can get at least one top from a News pattern finished for the contest? If you will send 5c in stamps the patterns you requested will be sent right out to you.

A Little S. O. S.
I hear from Mrs. William Lumbert, Portland, Michigan, about twice a month and she is in dire circumstances, as their corps have dried up and there is nothing coming in. She is unable to come in for the Contest or buy material for quilt to be entered. I sent her some patterns and I would like to ask for pieces for her. I know the ladies will help. It will relieve her mind from worry if she has a hobby.

I never miss the paper and am trying hard for the contest.
Mrs. Ethel Lawson.
17601 Prest Ave., Detroit, Mich.

I am sure that every one will remember that Mrs. Lumbert was one of the very first ones to send a letter...(clipping cut-off)

The Ever Popular Star In a New Design

Every since grandmother's day stars and roses have been popular quilt subjects. Not one star, but a whole constellation of stars, makes up a block in the Quilt Club Editor's new pattern called "Seven Stars." The quilt adapts itself easily to old-fashioned prints or to a modern red-white-and-blue treatment.

Directions for making "Seven Stars" are containted in the new free leaflet by that name.

Send a self-addressed, stamped...(clipping cut-off)

Beauty in the Home Editor:
Please enter my name as a member of the Beauty in the Home Quilt Club.

Name………………
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Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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