quilting

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The profit-oriented approach that emerged, which disrupted the Quilting Bee’s price-sharing structure, created “real rifts and disharmony within the community,” Turner explains, over engaging with collectors, art institutions and commercial enterprises.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Quilting classes, taught by the most established quilters in the area, were established in the depressed industrial valleys of south Wales in the 20s and 30s to produce very high-end quilts.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2022

Also on the tour is the historic Freedom Quilting Bee building, a women’s sewing cooperative founded in 1966 that had contracts with quilters to sell bedding and bags for stores, including Sears, until the 1990s.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Quilting for adult beginners Learn the skill of hand-quilting with artist Joan Dreyer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2016

Quilting bees of an afternoon were still recognized social functions and the spread quilt on its frame made a gorgeous tent under which my brother and I camped on our way to "Colorado."

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin