August 3, 1940

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner Column describing a future quilt show.

Quilters Already Talking About Future Quilt Show

By Edith B. Crumb

It is a long time before the next show, but it is being talked about and planned for already by some cornerites.

Mrs. Gabrielle Baecheroot has a big secret about the quilt she is making for it and no one is going to see it until the time to show it. She is having difficulty, for the minute she gets it out and starts to work on it some one ringes her door bell and arrives for a little visit, so she has to scamper about and put her blocks and patches away.

Mrs. Baecheroot says that it is quite an elaborate pattern. She is planning to donate some quilt patches to the Nancy Belles' Bazar. A few years ago she cut enought for 20 quilts and she thinks that enough blocks cut to complete a quilt would sell readily. She has about enough for 12 quilts left out of the 20.

Yesterda Mrs. Lavina Lilley brought a Dresden Plate quilt that she was just putting a few finishing stitches on and the gay colors on the light blue background were very attractive. She hopes to have it finished tomorrow for she does not wish to leave it unfinished when she starts on her vacation on Monday. She is going to Bay Court Mothers' Camp at New Baltimore for three weeks.

Mrs. Eva Schaub was so ashamed of the report in the Corner last week that she did not do a stitch of work that she was busy every minute yesterday afternoon on a needlepoint covering for a foot-stool.

Mrs. T. L. Murdock kept her fingers and needle flying, too, on her Italian hemstitched tablecloth, to make up for playing hookey and going to the ball game last Friday.

Gretchen Reinhold is trying to finish a sampler for her room before school begins again. It is in black cross-stitch won white linen and the verse is "He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship."

Mrs. Marian Ridler wished me to remind you that next Thursday there will be extra special fun at the island picnic. Everybody is invited to come and bring her lunch and there will be games and prizes. Meet at the shelter near the Schiller monument. There is always a quilt hanging out as a sign.

Cornerites' Birthdays
August 8 - Mrs. Marie Ganzel, Clyde, Mich.; Mrs. Julia LaFond, 3252 Rathbone.

August 9 - Edna Marie Kennedy, 15444 Griggs; Mrs. Mildred Broom, 6365 Petoskey; Mrs. Henriette Warner, S. Rockwood, Mich.; Mrs. E. R. Partridge, 910 W. Kirby.

August 10 - Mrs. Eatha Stone, 2654 Maplewood; Mrs. T. J. Kaiser, 5921 Ternes, Dearborn; Mrs. Stella Stine, 8629 Sherwood; Mrs. Thos. Sturdy, 15084 Petoskey; Mrs. Carrie Briggs, 12744 Inkster Rd., Route 4, Plymouth, Mich.: Mrs. D. J. Kuntz, 4665 Seebaldt.

August 11 - Mrs. Leon Pavy, 1009 Batavia, Royal Oak; Miss May Frabotta, 1429 Rowena.

August 12 - Mrs. R. M. Brown, 1419 Cronk, Flint, Mich.; Mrs. C. Carda, 4240 Belvidere; Joyce Marie Pierce, 95 Spring, Ypsilanti (3 years old).

August 13 - Mrs. Emmett Myers, 5386 31st St., Mrs. Judith Koschade, 3427 Dickinson.

August 14 - Mrs. Clara Fleming, 3023 National.

​​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.