- 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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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
After the divorce, she lived in an apartment above a quilting shop in Nyack and sometimes rented rooms to actors visiting that town for performances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
"It wasn’t her family pictures, it wasn't her jewellery, it was her quilting."
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024
Ringgold introduced quilting into her work in the 1970s after seeing brocaded Tibetan paintings called thangkas.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
My neck ached from crooking over the quilting frame.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
At log-rollings, quiltings, and Saturday-night frolics, he was the first and the most admired.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
The busy sempstresses plied their needles with double speed; and various were the flounces and furbelows, pinkings and quiltings, they invented.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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
Dey had frolics at night, quiltings, dances, corn-shuckings, and played de fiddle.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
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
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