- present participle of quilt.
quilting
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Perhaps that is because while I was teaching and teaching teachers, I also had my side gigs—entertaining big groups, experimenting in the kitchen, a quilting group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 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
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
The girl opened the pine chest by the hearth and removed their quilting.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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It was here that velvets were first made about 1756, by Jeremiah Clarke, and muslins and cotton quiltings in 1763.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
But the best of all, both for him and me, were the quiltings; for these brought all the young folks together.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
Mother said they had cornshuckings, quiltings, and cotton pickings on the plantation.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
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
All the sewing-bees and quiltings, Apple-parings, and corn-huskings, Barbecues and basket meetings, Chicken-fights, and swift foot-races, Even singing-schools, were banished To the primitive old fogies.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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