November 13, 1933

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Beauty in the Home column including an announcement about the Quilt Club Contest, and article about a quilt group, and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.

Beauty in the Home
Here Are 14 Busy Quilt-Makers in Palmer Park Presbyterian Church
by Edith B. Crumb
This department seeks to give assistance to all who are interested in beautifying their homes and will be glad to answer questions pertaining to interior decoration. In order to serve all who, seek advice promptly no more than three problems will be discussed in any one reply. Readers are invited to write to this department as often as they wish, but to limit each letter to three questions. State your question clearly write on only one side of the paper, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope and address Beauty in the Home department, Detroit News. Letters with their answers will be published for the benefit of all homemakers but names and addresses will not be made public.

STANDING, left to right: Mrs. J. Pattison, Mrs. J. A. Loughlan and Mrs. Helen Batten. Sitting, left to right: Mrs. J. Buchanan, Mrs. E. Brodie, Mrs. George Young, Mrs. John McGraw, Mrs. James Clunie, Mrs. Frank Kennedy, Mrs. Alex Massie, Mrs. Alex Boag, Mrs. Thos. Tae, Mrs. Joseph G. Lawton and Mrs. Wm. Lindsay.

WHEN THE members of the Woman’s Association of the Palmer Park Presbyterian Church gather to work on quilts they carry on in a big way, for they have a club room in the basement in which they could very easily set up six large quilting frames and when this picture was taken, two tops were being quilted. No wonder they finished 20 quilts during the past year!

With many hands working on one quilt, it is finished in a very short time, the binding applied and there are the frames waiting for another; but there is usually another one to go right on for quilting.

I always ask where the materials for the quilt are found and discover that most of the women make children’s clothes, aprons or house dresses and that the scraps from these are never wasted.

It seems as if every home now has a piecework or patchwork quilt in the making and those who do not usually have a lovely old one hidden away in some old packing box or trunk in the attic.

Do you realize that you have but two more days in which to enter your quilts. I know that a great many more would have been in Saturday afternoon had it not been for the bad weather, but today has made up for it and the quilts have been coming in thick and fast. If you were not one of the quilt parade, please see that your quilt reaches the main office of The Detroit News not later than Wednesday afternoon (November 15.)

If your quilt is new it must be made from a Detroit News pattern and if you have not sent in a coupon and discover now that you have a quilt, do not worry about the coupon, but just bring in the quilt anyway.

The hours for the Quilt Contest are 12 noon to 10 p.m. and arrangements have been made so that you may call for your quilts on the day after the Contest closes (Monday, November 20.)

Quilt Club Corner.
I would like to be a member of your Quilt Club Corner. I have been making quilts for 25 years and I have a beautiful collection of them. I expect to exhibit some antique quilts at your Contest and am making a Jacob’s Ladder from one of your patterns and hope I can get it finished in time for the Contest.

I think it is a good idea to exchange patches and I am going to bring a basket of them. I expect to be there every day as so many of my friends are going and I don’t want to miss any of them.
MRS. BURTON S. KNAPP,
712 S. Monroe St.,
Monroe, Michigan.

You are going to be a very welcome person at the Contest, Mrs. Knapp, and what fun you are going to have exchanging patches. So many are planning to do that that it promises to be a very interesting gathering of quilt-makers. Thank you for writing in, and I hope that you will write again later on.

Business Woman.
Detroit Business Woman's Club will hear Dr. W.G. Bergman, head of the department of Research. Colleges of the City of Detroit. Tuesday at a luncheon meeting in the Lafayette Building, at 12:00. Dr. Bergman will talk on "What Detroit Should Do for Humanity." Miss Mabel R. Rodgers is chairman.

Nornae Club.
Nornae members will give a benefit bridge-luncheon in St. Barnabas Parish House, Thursday, at 12:30. Baked goods will be on sale, and reservations may be made with Mrs. George Gordon Mead, chairman, or with the assisting hostesses, Mrs. R.B. Weeks, Mrs. E.W. Bentley and Mrs. A.M. Doig.

Important Notice of Quilt Contest
Due to the fact that so many have written in for an extension of time on their quilts, it has become necessary to postpone the Quilt Contest until some time in November.

Now – will everyone who has ever made a quilt from a News pattern consider exhibiting it? More than one may be entered and all that one has to do is to fill out the coupon which will be found on this page Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and send it to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News. This notice must be in before October 15 and your cooperation in sending it in as quickly as possible will be appreciated.

If you have never made a quilt from a News pattern, but have an old quilt, 50 years of age or more, you may enter that. There is a great interest in old quilts and you will be aiding in the revival of this early American occupation if you will allow others to see some heirloom which you may have.

Will you not sent in your coupon at once?

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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