quilting
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈkwɪltɪŋ/
:
acolchado
- She spent the afternoon working on her latest quilting project, carefully stitching together colorful fabrics.
- quilting bee
- quilting stitch
- quilting technique
Some, I have a friend who does beautiful quilting.
- Some, I have a friend who does beautiful quilting.
- That's where my dad's AT and she just opened a quilting shop.
- My, my dad's wife is way into quilting now.
- I can't tell you how not into quilting I am, but she's really passionate about it.
- There is a bit of quilting to to Wiley post suit, and that was actually by design.
Examples
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The attention and uncompromising care given to the quilting is what validates the quilt.
Fiction book (1992) -
The point of quilting is to make quilts and share them with others.
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For the rest of the day, not a lot of quilting work was done.
Fiction book (1992) -
I still have a few other projects that need quilting when these are finished.
Blog text (4) -
The folks at the senior center have just started a quilting project and they'll be thrilled.
Fiction book (1993) -
First, they would lightly trace, in pencil, their chosen quilting patterns onto the quilt top.
Fiction book (1992) -
Aren't you planning to join us at Rachel's for the quilting bee?
Fiction book (1999) -
In cold weather, they sat all afternoon in one another's houses, quilting or sewing or embroidering.
Fiction book (1992) -
FINN: The day Sam drove me to my Great-aunt Glady's house... ...the Grasse Quilting Bee was there, setting up to make a new quilt.
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I hugged them as I looked over the detailed applique and fine quilting stitches: Grama's, Jennifer's, and Susan's, all intertwined.
Fiction book (1992)
Compounds
- US
1
6.5
A meeting where people work together to sew warm blankets from small cloth pieces
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Quilting comes from quilt, which goes back to the old Latin word culcita meaning 'mattress' or 'stuffed cushion'. Imagine sewing layers and filling together to make a warm, padded cover—so quilting is the process of stitching layers into a soft, warm pattern.