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Women's Society Helping to Raise Church Funds

April 14, 1936
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 and a list of Quilt Club members.
Women's Society Helping to Raise Church Funds
They Are Looking Forward to Vacation This Summer

Quilters of Loyalty Circle Meet in Attic Two Days a Week
Standing: Mrs. Alice Zimmerman; sitting, left to right: Mrs. Edward Numbers, Mrs. Elizabeth McKay, Mrs. Clarence Keller, Miss Alice Hendry, Mrs. Robert Shaw, Mrs. Jennie Klinger, Mrs. John Hopkins and Mrs. John Tacksbury.

By Edith B. Crumb

The quilting members of Loyalty Circle of Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian Church (Trumbull and Grand River avenues) make their share of money for the maintenance fund by finishing quilts; and just to prove to you that they have plenty of these to do, I will tell you that they have enough orders ahead to keep them busy until about June.

There are about 40 members in this Circle, and only nine of them are quilters, but it can never be said that they do not do more than their share.

Instead of meeting just once a week or once in two - do you know what they do? They meet two days every week at the home of Mrs. Robert Shaw, 3757 Whitney avenue.

Mrs. Shaw has a nice big attic that was to be made into a recreation room and after the walls were covered and a nice bright linoleum put on the floor there was to be a ping-pong table put in but before that came about quilting frames were installed and this room has been a permanent quilting corner for the Loyalty Circle members.

The quilting is started early in the morning, a potluck lunch breaks the day and it is well along toward the end of the afternoon before the quilters start home.

No piecing or appliquing is done at these gatherings - just quilting.

The patterns for the quilting are designed after the quilt is on the frames and the motifs on the quilt are carfully considered in laying these out so that every figure stands out prominently.

With only about two and a half more months to work before a short summer vacation, every one is working very hard to get everything finished on time. No wonder two days a week are required.

But they are very happy days for not one of the quilters shown here could be persuaded to give up her day of quilting for anything else, and inasmuch as this is the fifth year of their activity, it is easy to understand how valuable this little band of women has become to the church.

Member From Idaho
Dear Miss Crumb: I am sending membership applications for my mother, who is visiting us from Idaho and I also wish to be a member. Mother and I think Mrs. Hulbert's quilt beautiful and the quilting equally so. Mother used to do that kind of work in Idaho. The she fell and broke her wrist so cannot hold a needle now. But she can make the most beautifl crocheted and braided rugs from rags or hose.
Mrs. Charles W. Evans
914 Howard street,
Dearborn, Mich.

We are delighted to have a member with and Idaho address. I think that is our first from that state so now we have members in every state of the Union except four. What a shame that your mother's wrist should be broken and in a condition so that she cannot sew but it is fortunate that she can hold a crochet hook for I am sure she would be very unhappy if she could not be busy most of the time. I hope that she will keep in touch with us when she returns to Idaho. We would be delighted to hear from her.

These Members Belong to Quilt Club Corner
Mrs. C. C. Du Bois, Jr.
3363 E. Jefferson Ave.

Mrs. C. Du Bois, Sr.
4124 East 131,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. E. E. Gauntlett
1038 Clymen Ave.
Toledo, Ohio.

Mrs. E. M. McGettigan,
4031 Wetzler Rd.,
Toledo, Ohio.

Mrs. F. Yarger,
3817 Portage Ave.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. C. M. Hammond,
9201 Steele Ave.

Mrs. G. B. Hammond,
2756 Vermont Ave.

Eleanore Handy,
797 St. Clair Ave.,
Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Mrs. Jas. Hanlon,
339 East St.
Rochester, Mich.

Mrs. Beatrice Hanna,
1191 Holcomb Ave.

Mrs. Alice Hansen,
311 1/2 Fitzhugh Ave.,
Midland, Mich.

​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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