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Prairie Queen Quilt

September 4, 1931
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A pattern leaflet for the "Prairie Queen" quilt pattern.
The Detroit News"Prairie Queen" Pattern For Quilt
To make the "Prairie Queen" quilt, you will require for each block, which is 12 inches square, one four-inch square like pattern No. 1 of white or cream material; four triangles like pattern No. 2 od colored material; eight two-inch squares of colored material and four of white or cream material; eight two-inch squares of colored material like pattern No. 3 and eight of cream or white material like this same pattern - 25 pieces in all. The line made by the dashes shows where the cutting is to be made and the straight line is the depth of the seams.

Pattern No. 4 shows how the various pieces may be put together. It could be very simply done if the four corners, each composed of one large white or cream triangle and one of the colored material were first put together. Then the center squares for each side, each consisting of two cream or white and two colored two-inch squares may be put together next; all of these next being joined together with the large light square in the center as shown in the sketch.

There are several ways in which this quilt block may be arranged as to color. If one wishes there may be just one kind of colored material and the white; or, the colored triangles in the corner may be of one tint and the small squares in the center pieces may be a contrasting color, this combination with white or cream material being very striking. Such combinations as white or cream with apricot and green; orchid and green, peach and blue, yellow and blue or such two as might harmonize with your own particular color scheme.

This quilt may be put together by alternating the pieced blocks with the light blocks; or it may be made of nothing but the pieced blocks.

After the top has been pieced together it may be finished all around the edge with a two-inch band each of the colored and the light materials, the latter one being on the edge and this bound with a narrow strip of the former.

The quilt should consist of the top, a layer of cotton batting and the back of plain material to match the light material and the binding should, of course, be applied after the three thicknesses have been quilted together.

Another Pattern.
Those of you who are interested in making piecework or patchwork quilts might like to have the pattern which this department made for last week's distribution. The name of it is the "Handy Andy" pattern, and if you neglected to send for it you are not too late to receive it now. Just send your request to the Beauty in the Home Department, The Detroit News, enclosing with it a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Scores of suggestions on how to group furniture and build up attractive beauty spts in the home can be found by reading the "Beauty in the Home" column every day in The Detroit News, The Home Newspaper.

829-9-4-31

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.
2016:5.5

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