May 9, 1935

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner column including letters from Quilt Club members, list of Quilt Club members, and a coupon for Quilt Club membership.

A Surprise Planned for Today is Deferred Until Saturday
By Edith B. Crumb

A surprise was planned for you today- but I am the one who is surprised. This is the day that the new quilt was to be announced but inasmuch as it has not been received from the printers. I will have to ask you to wait until Saturday, I know however that you are going to be delighted with this quilt design, for it is going to be such good pick-up work and is not a bit hard to do and yet it is one of those designs which appear to be intricate. It does not begin to be as difficult to make as the Nosegay quilt.

Today we have more space for letter and I am sure you are happy about that. Watch for the Corner on Saturday so that you can be one of the first to write for the new quilt pattern.

Wants Another Pattern.
Dear Miss Crumb and Beatrice: I want to be among that big pole of letters on your desk Monday morning so here I am.

I am so glad you are to have more time on the air. You will be able to read a lot of letters now.

I've enjoyed being a member of your Quilt Club and I want to thank you for the patterns I've received. I am making butterflies now and it's a lot of fun. You will think I have a lot of nerve to ask for another pattern, nit I would like the Trip Around the World if you have one to spare.
Mrs. WM Christie
744 Washington street,
Ferndale, Michigan

Why, Mrs. Christie, you must not feel like that about sending for a pattern. We want everyone to feel so at home in the Quilt Club Corner that she will think nothing of making a request of a pattern. That is why we have them and the more you ask for the happier Beatrice and I are.

Sunshine and Shadow.
Dear Miss Crumb: I sent my name in many moons ago, but this is my first letter to the Corner. Am I a member?

If the lady who wants the Sunshine and Shadows patter will make it like "Mrs. Mueller's" Steps to the Garden," using light cream instead of white, light yellow instead of old rose, and orange instead of black she will have the Sunshine and Shadows. I am making one and it is as pretty as any of the pretty ones I have made.

I intend to see Mrs. Mueller's beautiful quilt- we are neighbors.
Mrs. Merritt
17303 West Brook
Detroit, Michigan

You certainly are a member, Mrs. Merritt, and it was nice of you to start right in sending suggestions. That is what we want and I hope that the quilt-maker who wanted this information sees your letter for is she will look at the picture of the quilt in the paper I know that she can work out the pattern very easily.

A Rug Maker.
Dear Miss Crumb: I was interested in Mrs. Ryan's problem of getting a braided rug to lie flat as it was one I had to work out for myself a few years ago and I found that by laying the rug on a table to sew it that it would not hump up or curl but lie perfe3ctly flat at it really was very easy to do that way.

I, too, was glad to welcome back the broadcast and think it grows more interesting all of the time. So many of the names are becoming so familiar that it seems like meeting old friends when you and Beatrice read the letters.
Many thanks to the Detroit News for giving us this pleasure.
Mrs. Charles E. Perry
Farmington, Mich.

That was certainly nice of you, Mrs. Perry to write in that hint about the braided rug, and I can see that it would work out just fine. We are happy to know that you like the broadcast and hope you feel at home in the Corner and will write frequently.

Enjoys the Corner.
Dear Miss Crumb: I enjoy the Quilt Club Corner very much and have learned a lot about quilting through it.

I was at the quilt show last fall and I surely wouldn't miss one for anything. I hope that the next will be bigger and better.

How is Mrs. Fisher. I found her and Mrs. Galton very interesting.
Mrs. H. Leslie
8725 Continental Ave.,
Van Dyke, Mich.

I am glad you enjoyed the Corner and the shows so much, Mrs. Leslie.

Well, we are going to try and have the show this year a bigger one than ever. It is up to all of you to do that and I know that I can depend on each of you.

Mrs. Fisher is getting along just fine. I am going to run a story soon, showing these two sisters when they were little girls.

It will be interesting so be sure to watch it.

Last Two Names Are New Members
Today we have the names of nine old members and two new ones. We have finished with the "A's" and getting a good start on the "B's" of which there is a very long list so save a good space in your scrapbook for these.

Mrs. C.H. Babcock
Warren, Michigan

Helen Babcock
Box 162
Stanton, Michigan

Mrs. Chas. L Backman
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

Gabrielle Baecheroot,
3573 E Hancock Ave,
Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. J.E. Bailey
16604 Welland Ave,
Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. M.E. Bailey
3606 McClellan Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. O.H. Bailey
1988 Grand Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. Elizabeth Rausch
5837 Harding Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.

Mrs. Helen Stahl
3780 Richton Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.

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

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Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.