quilting bee

A major episode in this work is a quilting bee.

She spent a great deal of her social life participating in quilting bees.

"Ladies held quilting bees for money to give soldiers in our wars," she said.

They talked all the while, caught up with each other as at a quilting bee, tedious and comforting.

"We're all having a nice quilting bee down here.

Often a group of women will work on sewing a quilt together (much like the western "quilting bee").

Going to the quilting bee turned out to be a wonderfulgut idea.

But she appreciated the small-town culture of quilting bees and canning parties.

"It's kind of like a cross between a quilting bee and a spend-the-night party.

So they'd get together - for gossip, for one thing - and have quilting bees."

His cultural ideal is something like a quilting bee in which everybody can sew anything copied from anywhere.

For years, she has also headed a weekly quilting bee for inmates and local volunteers.

"It's the modern equivalent of barn raisings, quilting bees," she said.

The back door opened and the quilting bee filed back inside in effortless dignity.

She seemed to have an air of aloofness and was not the type to attend a quilting bee or gossip around the bridge table.

"Quilting bees have nothing on the average prison for sheer amount of gossip," Quincy murmured.

THE quilting bee, where people stitch face to face, may become obsolete.

They start having these quilting bees, these little bridge parties at the line of scrimmage."

I'm not yielding it to a quilting bee!"

Like quilting bees and bridge clubs, square-dancing is part of a fading Americana.

In winter there were also "literary meetings" for adults and quilting bees for the ladies.

For decade after decade, the church was the location of social activities, such as quilting bees and fish fries.

Quilting bees were also about making social connections and allowed a young woman to show off her quilting skills to the others.

Mr. Toppin says visiting the quilting bee was a moving experience.

In a scene that looked like a cross between a sewing factory and a quilting bee, there was scarcely an idle pair of hands.