June 7, 1941

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A portion of a Quilt Club Corner Column including quilters planning the first picnic of the year and a birthday list.

Cornerite Plan to Hole First Picnic of Season

By Edith B. Crumb

The quilt club members are never sure that warm weather has set in until Mrs. Marian Ridler has announced her first picnic. The first one will be held at Belle Isle next Thursday.

A few quilters and Nancy Belle's went over last week and tried a new located but decided that the old shelter near the Schiller monument could not be surpassed for these picnics and little weekly quilt shows.

Mrs. Ridler says that, as usual, the crowd will gather about 11 o'clock and stay until 3:30 or 4.

At the meeting here is The News Conference room yesterday we were treated to candy by Mrs. Lavina Robinson to celebrate her birthday and Mrs. Sylvia Carlen brought a great big box of cookies to celebrate her forty first wedding anniversary.

Mrs. Richard Marx brought a beautifully knitted pair of socks which she has just finished, to hand in the to the British War Relief Society and for the same cause Mrs. Mary Jones is knitting a pair of sea socks. These are white wool and when finished are 30 inches long. They appear at first glance, to be quilt a task but they actually work up just about as quickly as the regulation gravy socks because such large needles are used for them.

Mrs. Ridler brought a new member to the Quilt Club- Mrs. Helen Herrman 6357 Buelow Court. Mrs. Herman says that she has attended all of the New quilt shows and kept in touch with the Quilt Club through the column so she thought she would like to come down and join. She is interested in making quilts.

During the depression, her husband rolled his own cigarettes and she saved all the little muslin bags in which the tobacco was packed. She ripped these apart and intends to use them with some other material for a quilt. She has about 200 little strips measuring approximately three by eight inches, so now she has to figure out some patterns which will utilize these.

May Mancuse says that her sister, Mrs. Margaret Frabetta is in St. Mary's hospital Room No. 2017. She has been there a week and probably will be there about three more weeks. She would appreciate some notes and cards of cheer. She joined the Quilt Club some time ago.

Cornerites Birthdays
June 13 -Mrs. Anna M. Boyd, 8325 Bryden avenue; Miss Emily Howell, 6222 Jonathon avenue; Mrs. Nona Shannan, 7061 Senator avenue; Mrs. Dora G. Bice, 320 Eason avenue, Highland Park; Mrs. Alice L. Smith, 1531 Defer place.

June 15 - Mrs. Gabrielle Baecheroot, 3573 Hancock avenue east; Mrs. Charles F. Raymo, 3773 Hurlbut avenue; Mrs. Kate Cooper, 1516 Pallister avenue; Miss Eva Bell, Touristyville, Wayne County, KY; Mrs. Ray Dulaney Carthage, Va.; Mrs. J. J. Ross, 8223 Ellsworth avenue.

June 16 - Mrs. Anna Traub, 13656 Grand River avenue; Miss Edna Ames, 6231 Vernor Highway west.

June 17 - Mrs. Henry Murphy, 12132 Rutland avenue; Mrs. Pearl Howell, 6222 Jonathon avenue.

June 18 - Mrs. Hazel Ross, 1945 Morrell avenue; Mrs. George Dawson, 1995 Sharon avenue.

​​Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.