Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of doing quilted work.
- noun Material used to make quilts.
- noun Material that has been quilted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: A beating with a rope's end.
- noun A coating for a water-vessel (such as an earthen monkey or jar), formed of sennit, rope-strands, etc.
- noun The act or operation of forming a quilt.
- noun The material used for making quilts; padding or lining.
- noun Quilted work.
- noun A kind of cloth resembling diaper, having a pattern slightly marked by the direction of the threads or raised in low relief. It is made of cotton and of linen, and is used, like piqué, for waistcoats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.
- noun A quilting bee. See
Bee , 2. - noun The material used for making quilts.
- noun (Naut.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A layer or layers of quilted
padding . - noun nautical, archaic A
coating of strands ofrope for a water vessel. - noun The practice of creating
quilts - verb Present participle of
quilt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric
- noun stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design
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Examples
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While it may not enjoy the most glamorous of reputations, quilting is making a comeback: in 2010 the V&A will launch one of the finest quilting exhibitions in the world and introduce a brand new audience to the craft.
Festival of Quilts The Nag 2009
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I decided to use a variety of variegated threads - the quilting is going to be my basic flame meander which I tend to work in diagonal rows (approximately) anyway.
Variegated flames katelnorth 2008
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If you are interested in quilting or in the history of quilting, I encourage you to go check out the Sew, Mama, Sew Blog.
Archive 2008-02-01 Linda 2008
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And whereas fashion, in keeping with the times, seems to hurl girls and women out of the home to exert power in the world, quilting is an artistic expression that is a quest for comfort and beauty in the home.
Archive 2008-02-01 Linda 2008
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If you are interested in quilting or in the history of quilting, I encourage you to go check out the Sew, Mama, Sew Blog.
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I adore the purple block and the quilting is fantastic.
Finally! katelnorth 2008
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The fill-in quilting was fairly random, using some similar shapes to the coloured quilting and otherwise, just loose rectangly shapes.
Finished. Whew. katelnorth 2008
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I know that nachine quilting is much quicker than hand, but sometimes it doen't feel like it!
Let the quilting begin katelnorth 2008
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Pinning the quilt together for quilting is the least fun project, but if I have a day to myself where there are no kids around and no errands, I can lay it out on the floor and pin it in small bits between other sewing, and it won't be quite so boring.
Goals accomplished, goals set katelnorth 2008
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And whereas fashion, in keeping with the times, seems to hurl girls and women out of the home to exert power in the world, quilting is an artistic expression that is a quest for comfort and beauty in the home.
Fashion and Quilting: Two Roads Linda 2008
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