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quilting bee

group effort to quilt or stitch a pre-fabricated top to an inner layer and bottom of a quilt using a framework

  • quilting party
  • quilting-bee

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...sociable work that required no special attention, in which all were facing together and all drawing closer together as the afternoon passed in intimate gossip. Sometimes several quilts were set up. I know of a ten days’ quilting-bee in Narragansett in 1752.
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