December 25, 1935

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

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

Wacinkita Campfire Members Make Quilt for American Red Cross
Standing left to right: Dorothy Wing, Betty Campbell, Shirle Wesserling, Eda Roy, Roselyne Acebo, Lorraine Way and Charlotte Rahn. Sitting, left to right: Miss Gladys Wilcox (assistant Guardian), Dorothy Kraft, Marian Radtke, Eileen Campbell, Ivy May Wing, Shirley Porter and Mrs. Charles H. Hardy (Guardian).
Girls Meet Regularly in Summer and Winter

By Edith B. Crumb

If you have no Campfire members in your family, you have probably thought that all they did was to hike, eat lots of sandwhiches, be able to light a fire without matches and cook with the least number of untensils and under the most trying circumstances.

But just let me change your mind about that. Of course, they do all of those things and more than I have space to relate.

Under the supervision of Mrs. Leotine Hardy as Guardian and...(clipping cut-off)

(clipping cut-off)...for truthfulness, honesty and dependability.

They certainly have something to show for their dependability, and it is a quilt in a star pattern. The American Red Cross donated the blocks already cut, the girls bought the white for the background, and when finished this quilt will be turned back to the Red Cross to be put to use where needed.

The quilt was started last spring and some of the girls work on it at home, meeting every other week in the kindergarten of the John R. Williams School for a session of sewing.

During the summer they spend a four-hour morning at a Recreation Park, but summer or winter, they may be depended upon to finish a project they have commenced.

They have not decided whether they will quilt or tie this top, but which ever it is it will be accomplished with the greatest care and finest of workmanship of which the girls are capable.

The stars in the quilt are of two different colors of checked gingham, one being yellow and white and the other red and white, the combination being very attractive against the white background.

I think that I can make you feel quite well acquainted with Mrs. Hardy, the Guardian by telling you that she is the daughter of Mrs. Gabrielle Baecheroot, one of our loyal Quilt Club Corner members.

Home Again
Dear Quilt Club Members: It has been a long time since I greeted you. Are you all busy piecing? I am making a Double Irish Chain quilt in green and white, aslo one of Ceasar's Crown and both are very pretty, I think. I was unable to see the display of quilts this year as I was up in northern Minnesota; but I have heard so much about the beautiful workmanship that I surely regret it deeply.

Now I am back home won't you write to me? I had an opportunity to interest a good many in quilts while I was away and left many of our News patterns. The quilt-makers up there were all so pleased to get them.
Mrs. Ida Padgett,
328 Benjamin st., Romeo, Mich.

We are so glad to know that you are back again, Mrs. Padgett, and surely you should receive some "Welcome Home" notes. I know it must seem very good to you to be back and at your quilts again.Now that you are within our circle once more be sure to write letters occasionally for we do not want to lose you again.

These Members Belong to Quilt Club Corner
Mrs. M. A. Lucas,
6032 Scotten Ave.

Mrs. M.O'Neill,
Box 416
Williams, Ariz.

Mrs. Ray Oulette,
Hubble, Mich.

Mrs. Florence Paul,
Route No. 1, Box 283,
New Haven, Mich.

Mrs. J. I. Draftz,
Carleton, Mich.

Mrs. R. J. Drake,
12051 Woodward Ave.

Alice E. Draper,
124 Wilhelmina Ave.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Mrs. Edna Draper,
2940 Hudson Ave.

Mrs. Stella Drywoge,
4318 Lawndale Ave.

Mres. Clara Belle Dubke,
15114 Jim Daly Rd.,
Inkster, Mich.

Mr. Harry Duby,
22028 Donald Ave.,

East Detroit, Mich.

Beauty in the Home Editor:
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Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.