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One Dozen Quilters on a ‘Wedding Ring’

April 24, 1934
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A Quilt Club Corner column including an advertisement for the Indian Trail leaflet and letters from Quilt Club Corner members.
One Dozen Quilters on a ‘Wedding Ring’
Standing, left to right: Mrs. Walter Belty, Mrs. Wm. J. Maples, Mrs. H. L. Morris, Mrs. L. J. Gloyd, Mrs. C. Grausman and Mrs. C. Potteck. Sitting, left to right: Mrs. Clare Clarke, Mrs. Wayne Edwards, Mrs. R. N. Houghton, Mrs. Nellie Hare, Mrs. L. Hulbert and Mrs. Lucy Lennox.
A Bright Blue Background Chosen for Pieced Quilt

By EDITH B. CRUMB.

THE ladies of the Woodmere Methodist Church, Lawndale and Longworth avenues, can do more than one thing at a time and successfully, too. While a colonial tea, baked goods sale and antique exhibit was going on at full speed, there was a quilting frame set up all “ready for action,” and it didn’t take any time at all to gather the quilt-makers and take their picture, for a good quilt-maker can always be found near a quilting frame and anxious to get to work.

The quilt on the frame is a Double Wedding Ring, and has a beautiful deep blue background. Perhaps you will see it at the next Contest. Anyway, I know that there will be several quilts from this group of ladies. Many Detroit News patterns have been made by them, and they intend to keep right on making quilts, so you watch for their entries.

Because it was a colonial tea, many of the members were dressed in old-time costume, Mrs. Beltz wearing a bustle and pantelets, and Mrs. Gloyd a real hoop skirt. And she told me that it took real practice to handle a hoop skirt, and she found that she had not entirely mastered the technique.

Once this group of quilters get to work at a frame, it does not take long to turn out a finished quilt. At the same time they have the pleasure of being together and visiting, the combination of work and pleasure making the most delightful kind of a day.

Is Making Trip.I did not attend the Quilt Exhibit but I do follow your quilt column in The Detroit News.

The interest which Mrs. Wissmuller’s Trip aroused has prompted me to send for the Trip myself.

I have made the flower garden with a pleasing variety of colors.

I enjoy making the quilt tops but not the quilting. What bothers me is how the quilting pattern is put onto the quilt. I wish you would advise me.
MRS. L. ANGLESON,
R.F.D., No. 2, Box 715, Royal Oak, Mich.

You must not miss the next exhibit, Mrs. Angleson, for it’s a great sight to see all of those quilts together and I want to see you have one or more there. You will enjoy making the Trip.

Just watch this corner, for I know that there will be several letters telling you how to mark the quilting. Will some of the quilters please repeat directions? This has been sent in before but it was a long time ago.

One Year’s Work.
I am still working on quilts. I just can’t get away from the Trip. Every one, I say, is the last one, then someone wants help and I wade in and make another.

I have made and quilted five quilts and pieced the top of three and now an old lady wants me to piece one for her. Besides these I have quilted a Wedding Ring. All these include a year’s work and I certainly get a thrill out of making quilts.

Wish I could meet some interested ladies in my neighborhood. I am surely in luck to have Mrs. Marcellus in the same building with me. She too is a member, and I can tell you our tongues fly as fast as our needles.
MRS. W. H. ROWLEY.
4805 Vinewood Ave., Detroit, Mich.

You just can’t get away from quilt-making. Once you start, you keep on and one leads to another until you find that you have a good sized collection and have had so much fun making it.

Perhaps some of the ladies in your neighborhood will see your letter and get in touch with you and then you can all get together and have a little neighborhood club.

Follow Indian Trail for Your Next Quilt
If you are a quilt maker and in doubt where to go next, just follow the old “Indian Trail” and make one of the most interesting of the traditional old patterns.

Here is a new quilt block which has a wealth of names. It was called by any one of a dozen or more titles, but the one which the Quilt Club Editor believes to be the most authentic is Indian Trail. The block is a handsome geometric design and is not hard to make.

And don’t forget that No. 17 of the Nosegay leaflet is waiting for you.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.

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