Reliving History

Reliving History next month is all about re-enactments, living history and the people within the hobby. It is also about photography of the people and events that forms the public community for the group. Enjoy the site, the photographs and the stories.

Q is for Quilting bee

Submitted by david d on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 23:38

Quilting bee: a social event in which women get together to make a quilt.

  • 1832: The females have… meetings called quilting bees, when many assemble to work for one, in padding or quilting bed coverings or comforters. S.G. Goodrich, System of Universal Geography, p.107
  • 1835: He informed us that his wife had got a number of her neighbors with her for a quilting frolic. C.J. Latrobe, The Rambler in North America, p. 135
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