quilting

I catch up with friends’ posts, add a few comments, and get updates from experts on quilting sites I belong to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

For example, quilting has long been a domestically appropriate medium for women to express their political beliefs, well before they had the right to vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

"It wasn’t her family pictures, it wasn't her jewellery, it was her quilting."

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

Ringgold introduced quilting into her work in the 1970s after seeing brocaded Tibetan paintings called thangkas.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

There wasn’t a single person I expected to see less at a quilting class than Nan.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Quiltings I heard mother say she went to a lot of quiltings.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

De white folks had cotton-pickings, corn-shuckings and quiltings.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

Then the quiltings and the dances— How my feet were wont to fly, While the moon peeped through the barn chinks From her stately place on high.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells

De grown folks used to have big times at log-rollings, corn-shuckings and quiltings.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration

At bees and at quiltings 'twas aye to be seen; The best of the gossip began When in at the doorway had entered serene My grandmother's turkey-tail fan.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder