February 15, 1941

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner Column featuring a Sunbonnet Baby quilt.

Has Gay Joining Strips

Mrs. Martha Galbraith, 4386 Dickerson avenue, has just finished this Sunbonnet Baby quilt top which she started eight years ago. She has worked out an unusual scheme of green, yellow and orchid strips to join the blocks together.

Shower of Valentines at Quilt Club Meetings

By Edith B. Crumb

Yesterday was a happy one at the Quilt Club Corner meeting, for Valentines were flying about in great fashion. It took May Mancuse, Mrs. Eva Schaub and Mrs. Kay Patterson a long time to get all of them distributed and I have a few left to be given out next week.

Mrs. Martha Galbraith, 4386 Dickerson avenue, brought a Sunbonnet Baby quilt top to show us. She started this eight years ago and when she took the last stitch in it recently she decided that St. Valentine's Day would be a good one to bring to the Cornerite meeting.

The background of the blocks is white and they are put together with light green, yellow and orchid strips. Now Mrs. Galbraith will have to get busy and quilt it so it will be ready for the next show.

Mrs. Mary Strobilius says she has her Mohawk Trail quilt on the hoops and is certainly going to have it ready for the show. Mrs. Lena Clinton and Mrs. Josephine Coscia came to the meeting with Mrs. Strobilius. It seemed like old times to see these three together again.

And Mrs. Oscar Miller and Mrs. Venus Bell came all the way in from Birmingham. Mrs. Miller is planning to move to Fowlerville, so it may be difficult for her to be with us often. We hope that Mrs. Bell will come anyway.

Mrs. Iva Mae Harris brought her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Gochnour, 18082 Biltmore avenue. We hope she enjoyed herself so much that she will want to come every Friday with her mother.

Mrs. Belle Hardy, 2012 MacDougal avenue; Mrs. Gabrielle Baecheroot, 3573 Hancock avenue east, and Mrs. Rose Alexander, Route 1, Box 932, Detroit, are ill - so they could not attend the Valentine party.

Mrs. Eva Schaub wishes to thank all who were so kind to her while she was ill. She found it difficult to be very sick for she had so many calls, telephone messages, cards and notes that she almost forgot about her illness. She brought a big box of red candy hearts from the East Side Friendship Quilt Club - as Valentine Greetings.

Very little in the way of quilting, crocheting or knitting was accomplished, although May Mancuse did struggle through a few hard stitches on that war relief sweater that she is helping me knit and by next week she will probably surprise us by having the front entirely finished.

Cornerites' Birthdays
February 20 - Mrs. Edward Mohring, 123 Fulton street, Petoskey.

February 21 - Mrs. R. C. Jones, 14633 Prairie avenue; Mrs. Marjorie West, 7125 Tuxedo avenue.

February 22 - Mrs. Florence Davenport, 3384 Preston avenue; Mrs. Dawn Kast, 243 Baker street, Morenci, Mich.; Mrs. Sadie Lanstra, 1209 Lillibridge avenue; Mrs. Ynez Grenkowitz, 15481 Roselawn avenue; Mrs. Viola Engstrom, 33 Glendale avenue.

February 23 - Mrs. Kay Clark, 2172 Concord avenue; Mrs. F. C. Weber, 8068 Homer avenue; Mrs. Julianne Kerr, 7826 Klein street; Mrs. Harry E. Patterson, 2609 Park avenue; Mrs. Mary Pusker, 1681 Evans avenue.

February 24 - Mrs. Ida Kline, Route 2, Fayette, O.; Mrs. Katherine Ruth Gerrie, 3761 Edison avenue; Mrs. A. F. Mucke, 1262 Maryland avenue, Grosse Pointe Park.

February 25 - Mrs. Fred E. Miller, 22245 Garrison avenue, Dearborn; Mrs. Willis Smith, 1006 Carmel avenue; Rose Leavells, 1905 Caniff avenue.

February 26 - Mrs. Joseph Mooney, 4614 McClellan avenue; Mrs. Henning Peterson, 9261 Broadstreet avenue.

​​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.