quilting

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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

Many third- and fourth-generation artists returned to quilting as adults for a creative and therapeutic outlet, as well as a tether to their roots.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

“A quilting frame. I used to have classes here. You ever work on quilts?”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Log-rollings, house-raisings, house-warmings, corn-shuckings, quiltings, and the like were occasions when all the neighbors came together to do what the family itself could hardly accomplish alone.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

And they give quiltings and they'd have a ring play.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 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

"I could wear them to quiltings and to log-rollings and to house-raisings and to shooting matches and to weddings—yes, and to church, too."

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady

Patterns of quiltings are not as plentiful as designs for the patchwork tops of quilts; only about eight or ten standard patterns being in general use.

From Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster