March 3, 1934

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

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A Quilt Club Corner column including letters from Quilt Club Corner members.

Members of Bible Class Are Expert Quilters
LEFT to right, Mrs. Maude Rutter, Mrs. Esther Japs, Mrs. Mary Byas, Mrs. Alice Beaubien, Mrs. Myrtle Edwards, Mrs. Laura Finley, Mrs. Amelia Williams, Mrs. May Mills, Mrs. Sadie Breninger (hostess), Mrs. Frank B. Carden and Mrs. Jessie Cann.
Class of Quilters Busy on Dresden Plate Design

By EDITH B. CRUMB.

WITH 11 members of the St. Andrew’s Bible Class of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, (Twelfth and Glendale Ave.) hard at work, the quilting of a Dresden Plate does not require much time.

The piecing of a quilt is carefully watched for it means where the top is ready for quilting there will be a good old-time get together for the members and chatting is just part of this.

The group as shown in the illustration today is meeting at the home of Mrs. Sadie Breninger, 2424 Fullerton Ave., and a meeting of this time means a forenoon and afternoon of sewing with time off for a delicious lunch.

The ladies of this class meet nearly every Wednesday and most of the quilting is done at the church, but as a change is always welcomed, once in a while a home meeting is arranged.

This means a (word unclear) shifting about of the furniture in order to accommodate the quilting frames, but what hostess wouldn’t be only too glad to arrange her home for this purpose?

The quilt which is shown on the frames is the sixth one made by Mrs. Breninger and if all of the quilts made by the different members were to be totaled the amount would probably be astonishing. And each of them is busy all the time either piecing or quilting.

Don’t you hope that every one of these members has one or more quilts in the next Contest, if there is one? I don’t see why that won’t be possible with so many being made all the time—and so fast, too.

Two New Members.
I want to enter my mother’s and my name in the Quilt Club and to tell you how very much we enjoyed the exhibit. Mother came up from Columbus on Thursday and she and I spent several hours on Friday and Saturday both and then didn’t fell we had seen them all.

My mother has made a number of very beautiful quilts but could not enter them in the Contest because they were not made from News patterns. I send her the letters from The News each week and she has pieced a Trip Around the World since the Contest. It is now ready to be quilted. I am sending her the leaflets for the new quilt also.

I am a recruit, inspired by the beautiful examples of quilting at the exhibit. I was especially interested in the Flower Garden and hope to piece one this spring.
MRS. R. G. GILLESPIE,
2541 Grand Boulevard,
Detroit, Mich.

Your mother certainly arrived in Detroit at just the right date to see the Quilt Contest; and wouldn’t it be nice to have her enter a quilt, if there is one this year?

Does she like the Trip Around the World? Did she make it of all plain materials or plain and figured? It is interesting to see how many ways the same pattern may be worked out.

Thank you for writing, Mrs. Gillespie, and I hope that it won’t be long before there is another letter from you.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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