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Visiting Quilt Club Comes to Corneriet Meeting

March 22, 1941
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner Column featuring the East Side Friendship Quilt Club.
Visiting Quilt Club Comes to Cornerite Meeting

By Edith B. Crumb

It's said all that women do at quilt meetings is chat, chat, chat - but here is proof that's not true.

In the picture below are members of the East Side Friendship Club who in one year have completed 16 quilts and pieced 28 tops. You can't do that and spend your time chatting, though I suppose by now they are as noisy as they are industrious and can keep up a steady flow of conversation without skipping a single stitch.

Yesterday afternoon they came to the Quilt Club meeting here at the News and brought just a few of their stacks of quilts and tops.

Mrs. Juila Alexander has a Boston Commons top which is similar to Sunshine and Shadow or Steps to the Altar except that it has more white in the background.

The quilt which Mrs. Mary Duprey brought was a Lone Star design, and Mrs. Florence McGinnies had her Friendship quilt with names and birthdates of her friends.

Mrs. Estelle Metz had two completed. One is the Double Wedding Ring and the other she calls Junior's Checker Board.

Mrs. Lottie Barnes called her quilt the Mother's Scrap Bag design and it certainly is an attractive way to utilize small bits of material which might otherwise have been thrown away.

Mrs. Ann Zumbro had her Pin Wheel quilt, the top of which she brought down some time ago. We were happy to see the completed product.

It was from the Double Monkey Wrench pattern that Mrs. Eva Schaub made her quilt and then had her friends autograph the blocks so that she could have a Friendship quilt.

Mrs. Kay Patterson had the top of a Grandmother's Fan with many colors of prints, having plain brown corners and a yellow background. Mrs. Aline Poisman with her Star of the East completed the group. The stars were of a gorgeous blue combined with gay prints.

This club was started by Mrs. Ann Zumbro just about a year ago. The members meet every two weeks now, although at first they gathered every week. They must work like beavers between meetings to have such a large number of quilts.

Before long they will have all of those tops quilted and then start on some others. As the record stands now they would have 44 entries in the show, so by next fall they ought to have at least 60. This number does not include Mrs. Schaub's pre-quilted quilts.

Everyone at this meeting looks forward to the meetings, for they are all-day sessions, taking turns at the different houses. Each brings her lunch and the hostess furnishes coffee, salad and cake.

Yesterday we had two new members - Mrs. Lillie Lesser, 19735 Orleans street, and her neighbor, Mrs. Viola Collewaert, 19729 Orleans street.

Both were surprised at the fine array of quilts shown at the meeting and also at the number of new quilts which were being started. Mrs. Lesser comes from Alabama where she made many quilts. She plans to keep right on making them here in Detroit, coming to our meetings as often as possible.

East Side Friendship Quilters
Upper row, left to right: Mrs. Julia Alexander, Mrs. Mary Duprey, Mrs. Florence McGinnies and Mrs. Estelle Metz. Lower row, left to right: Mrs. Lottie Barnes, Mrs. Ann Zumbro, Mrs. Eva Schaub, Mrs. Kay Patterson and Mrs. Aline Poisman.

Cornerites' Birthdays
March 27 - Mrs. Maude Wickham, 450 Jefferson court; Mrs. Ora Feeley, 2005 Broadway avenue north, Wichita, Kan.; Mrs. Charles Boughton, 4127 Iriquois avenue.

March 28 - Mrs. Ida M. Cowans, Box 44, Ft. Scott, Kan.; Mrs. Caroline Fitting, 12067 Meyers road.

March 29 - Mrs. William H. Turner, 115 Isbell street, Howell; Mrs. Mae E. Toohey, 1421 Canfield avenue west, Apt. 11; Mrs. Myrtle Holly, 8275 Epworth boulevard.

March 30 - Mrs. Helen Cullen, 386 Goulson avenue west, Hazel Park; Mrs. Louis Mason, 3377 Eighteenth street; Mrs. Gertrude Mitchell, 4829 Mt. Elliot avenue; Mrs. Mary F. Ford, 16605 Joy road; Mrs. Beth Green, 17872 Rinpelle street.

March 31 - Mrs. J. J. Biner, Stockbridge, Mich.; Mrs. George Lowery, 2202 Hurlbut avenue; Mrs. Beatrice Zumbro, 2823 Beniteau avenue.

April 1 - Mrs. L. Marzolf, 2814 Wakefield avenue Berkley, Mich.; Mrs. James B. Carey, 13538 Ohio avenue; Mrs. Charles Abbott, 2737 Jefferson avenue west, Trenton; Mrs. J. Shaughnessy, 5764 Fifteenth street.

April 2 - Mrs. Rufus Payne, 13974 Abington road; Mrs. Lillie Miller, 9529 Lauder avenue; Mrs. Helen Bauman, 7415 Dunedin avenue; Mrs. May Blackwood, 5057 Avondale avenue.

​​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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