quiltings

She told the interested listener that in this out-of-the-way hamlet she did not mind the monotony much because there were plenty of "quiltings," adding that she had helped that winter at more than twenty-five quilting bees; besides this, she had made a quilt for herself and also helped on some of those of her immediate neighbours.

Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them 1907

Even their sports and amusements partook rather of skill and labor, than dissipation and debauchery, such as quiltings, spinning matches, corn-shucking, log-rolling, houseraisings and the like; all tending to manly vigor and modest woman-hood.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

On all such occasions the girls would always manage to have "quiltings" and "sewings."

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

Where excursion and incursion fantasies seem to have a pretty binary relationship coded into their black-and-white politics of polders and prisons, monomythic heroes and horrorific menaces, the isolation and infusion fantasies offer a different duality, situating themselves as end-points on a spectrum of granularity, a range of "fine" or "coarse" quiltings of realms and seams.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

Where excursion and incursion fantasies seem to have a pretty binary relationship coded into their black-and-white politics of polders and prisons, monomythic heroes and horrorific menaces, the isolation and infusion fantasies offer a different duality, situating themselves as end-points on a spectrum of granularity, a range of "fine" or "coarse" quiltings of realms and seams.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

But the best of all, both for him and me, were the quiltings; for these brought all the young folks together.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

In slavery days the negroes had quiltings, dances, picnics and everybody had a good time, Aunt Arrie said, "an 'I kin dance yit when I hears a fiddle."

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Frolics were mostly given at corn shuckings, cane grindings, hog killings, or quiltings.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

They had quiltings on Saturday nights, with eats and frolics.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

I heard mother say she went to a lot of quiltings.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration