October 11, 1931

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

An article about young women in a Bloomfield Hills sewing group.

Young Moderns Wield Deft Needle

Hills Hearthside Cozy Setting for Group

Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

The good old fashioned days are here again! Our modern, younger set has taken up sewing a cozy living room brightened with arrangements of colorful autumn blooms…great, deep comfortable chairs occupied but a charming bevy of girls… and a hearth in which blaze a huge log, was the scene which greeted us in the Joseph A Bruan home one afternoon last week.

This group meets each Thursday to wield their needles and even do a bit of knitting and we find they can do so in a very deft fashion. They plan to continue these gathering through the brisk fall days into the winter months.

The misses Virginia and Josephine Braun were hostesses last Thursday to the newly formed sewing club which includes Miss Nancy Adkinson, Miss Delphine Vhay, Miss Suzanne House, Miss Jane Winninghamn, Miss Josephine Taliferro, Mrs. John R MacManus Mrs. Charles L Winningbaum, Mrs. William Brown Williams II, Mrs. Spencer Withee, Mrs. William F Blake Jr. and Miss Jane Thompson.

Tea was served at the close of the afternoon as the sun was setting over the Hills. The annual tea was given at Cranbrook by Dr. and Mrs. W.Q. Stevens and the other members of the faculty for the mothers of the students will take place Oct. 14 at the school.

Mrs. Janet Page chose Friday evening as the occasion for a dinner in her home for Miss Elanore Allington and Frederick H Duffold whose engagement was announced some time ago. Her guests numbered 10.

Mrs. Joseph F Page entertained a few of her friends informally at a luncheon in her home Wednesday.

The Wednesday hunt at which have previously been held early in the mornings have been changed from the sunrise to sunset hours. Among those from the Hills who attended last Wednesday were Miss Annette Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Edward P Hamond, Miss Viola Hammond, Mrs. Reynolds Donovan, Mrs. And Mr. Elliott Slocum Nichols, Miss Mary Mabel Davis, Miss Florence Skae, Miss Peggy Ainsworth, Mrs. Dee Purey Mott and Miss Betty Endicott.

Mrs. Edward Askin Skae who has been attending the eleventh annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women in Washington D.C. returned to West Wind Farms Thursday.

Mrs. Sherman L Depew who left today for a short visit in Boston is expected to return to Hickory Grove Farm early this week.

Mr. and Mrs. John J Gillete Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton James of Grosse Pointe are spending the weekend in Middleton, O as the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Emerson.

Mrs. Frederick S Strong Jr. gave a small luncheon in her home Tuesday afterward taking her guests for a sail on Orchid Lake.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.