- present participle of quilt.
noun
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material used for making a quilt
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the act or process of making a quilt
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quilted work
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Etymology
Origin of quilting
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She has joined a quilting club, found a church community and has a dedicated exercise routine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 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
Repurposing fabric — from tattered blankets, frayed rags, stained clothes — is a central ethos of the community’s quilting practice, which resists commodification.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
“Let’s watch something else,” her mother had said suddenly, and she’d changed the channel to a show about quilting.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
At his mother's house the girls frequently assembled to hold their spinning-frolics,--a custom much resembling our quiltings.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
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
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
“We have pretty good times with the quiltings, huskings, and sleighing parties, when we pile into a double pung, ride in the moonlight, have supper, and a dance.”
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
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