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quilt

[kwilt] / kwɪlt /


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That first week, we had a TV and a kind of makeshift conversation pit: a quilt, a mattress, some pillows.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

We’re a quilt of positive and negative traits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

An older sister turns to sewing her bin of fabric scraps into a quilt top or putting together a jigsaw puzzle to get her dopamine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Husband said fans often looked like a "patchwork quilt" with different colours of shirts in the stands but were brought together by the national dress.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

She handed Dr. Karlsson a bundle of small blankets and quilt squares.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"The sheets I laid, the quilts I covered, and the clothes I wore were all covered with piles of patches," said Xu.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

It educates us in many arcane worlds of arts and crafts, quilts, chairs, pickle crocks and other items whose value really can be in the eye of the beholder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Patriotic 20th-century snapshots; souvenirs from the 1876 centennial; numerous depictions of Washington; flags; eagles and more join quilts, historical documents, paintings, toys and other works from 1776 to the present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Nearly a year after moving in, Weiss has filled the apartment with her stitched collages, quilts and the artworks of others, many of which she described as “trades.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025

“Then why no mention of it until today? Do you think it’s beyond us to provide you with clean quilts? An oilcloth, for that matter?”

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Slouchy hoodies over gossamer layers, wired cage-like corsets, an earthy milieu of silky, quilted and textured fabrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Sport Prestige’s alpha-swagger is the intricately quilted Nappa leather upholstery, its puzzlework of seams outlined with contrasting piping and double stitching—an orange the company calls “Magma” but you may know better as “DOT Vest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

You see, vatnik originally referred to a quilted cotton jacket, the kind worn by Soviet workers, soldiers and prisoners alike.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

At the back of the sling I had sewn a tiny quilted triangle, red at its center against two shades of green; it marked the baby’s nape for luck.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Adorned with shimmering squares of fabric, it echoes quilting traditions while reinventing the traditional women’s work of sewing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Isaac: I was gonna say what was challenging was to have somebody quilting the movie as we were shooting it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

The ladies buying upholstery fabric agreed and attacked my quilting display.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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