January 11, 1941

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner Column requesting get well cards for a member.

Send Cards to Invalid Cornerites

By Edith B. Crumb

Almost everybody at the Quilt Club meeting yesterday was busy and besides doing a lot of sewing, there was plenty of chatting going on.

Mrs. Nellie Welke reported that Mrs. Iva May Harris, 2127 Lillibridge avenue, is ill and would be greatly cheered by a note, card or visit. Letters and cards are always a happy surprise and I know that Mrs. Harris will be delighted to hear form every one of you. She was always so faithful in attending the meetings that we miss her a great deal and hope that it won't be long before she will be back with us every Friday.

Mrs. Pearl Rhoads has given up her knitting and gone in for needlepoint with two pieces started at once. Tatting will probably be her next project, for she seems to want to take a whirl at everything in the needlework line. How about those 13 quilts she has started?

Mrs. Sylvia Carlen stopped by just long enough to tell us that she has one quilt half finished and two tops done for the fall show. If she has that much done at this early date just imagine how many she will have when the exhibition opens.

Eva Schaub was discovered without her needlepoing and that is about the first time she has been idle for the afternoon.

She has just finished two patriotic samplers with the flag and mottoes in red, bule and gold embroidery on white linen. When these are framed they will make attractive wall decorations.

Mrs. Aline Poiseman celebrated her birthday by treating us to chocolate marshmallow fudge.

We were happy to see Mrs. Ivy Dunham arrive early with her knitting. She has not been with us for some time and we hope that from now on she will be with us every week.

One of the Cornerites had a card from a friend in Florida saying that she belongs to a group of women who have quilt picnics just like ours.

Someone suggested that we have an antique show once a month at our meetings. We had some when we first started and they were certainly interesting. I think it would be a good idea to renew this again. (And how are you getting along with those unfinished pieces of old sewing that have to be completed by the Friday after Easter?)

How would you like to have a show of antique dolls - the older the better? Drop me aline and tell me what you think would be nice for these exhibits we will have.

Cornerites' Birthdays

January 16 - Dorothy Kress, 13960 Manor avenue; Mrs. Alton Howard, RR 1, New Boston, Mich.; Mrs. Mae Loury, 781 Norwood avenue, Younstown, Ohio; Mrs. Carrie Sterling, 4676 17th street; Mrs. Alice Shoebottom, 5515 Hurlbut avenue.

January 17 - Mrs. Ida C. Padgett, Romeo, Mich.; Mrs. J. G. Cooper, 145 Grixdale avenue east.

January 18 - Mrs. Unah Broom, 9371 Petoskey avenue; Mrs. Math Hanson, Route 1, Box 117, Aitkin, Minn.

January 19 - Mrs. Frieda Venn, 2233 Trombley avenue.

January 20 - Mrs. Bertha Prince, Route 1, Milford, Mich.

January 21 - Mrs. Amelia Williams, 1945 Buena Vista avenue; Gretchen Reinhold, 640 Meadowbrook avenue (14 years old).

January 22 - Mrs. Rose Atkins, 7019 Mead avenue, Dearborn; Mrs. Carl J. Gerstenschlager, Harbor Beach, Mich.; Mrs. Pauline Ditzik, 2284 Leland avenue.

​​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.