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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quilting
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sewing/quilting etc bee
▪ I don't mean sermons, or those awful sewing bees we used to have.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Construction: a double layer construction using offset quilting helps to minimise cold spots.
▪ Green plastic quilting pads the walls, an enormous mirror on the ceiling reflects a similarly-sized double bed.
▪ Simple quilting or through stitching is only used on cheaper bags which are intended for summer use only.
▪ Specialists in quilting, patchwork, applique and curtain making.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quilting

Quilting \Quilt"ing\, n.

  1. The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.

  2. A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.

  3. The material used for making quilts.

  4. (Naut.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

Quilting

Quilt \Quilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quilting.]

  1. To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
    --Dryden.

  2. To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.

  3. To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

Wiktionary
quilting

n. 1 A layer or layers of quilted padding. 2 (context nautical archaic English) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel. 3 The practice of creating quilts vb. (present participle of quilt English)

WordNet
quilting
  1. n. stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design

  2. a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric

Wikipedia
Quilting

Quilting is the process of sewing of two or more layers of fabric together to make a thicker padded material, usually to create a quilt or quilted garment. Typically, quilting is done with three layers: the top fabric or quilt top, batting or insulating material and backing material, but many different styles are adopted.

The process of quilting uses a needle and thread to join two or more layers of material to make a quilt. The quilter's hand or sewing machine passes the needle and thread through all layers and then brings the needle back up. The process is repeated across the entire area where quilting is wanted. A rocking, straight or running stitch is commonly used and these stitches can be purely functional, or decorative and elaborate. Quilting is done to create bed spreads, art quilt wall hangings, clothing, and a variety of textile products. Quilting can make a project thick, or with dense quilting, can raise one area so that another stands out.

The whole process of creating a quilt or quilted garment also involves other steps such as designing, piecing, appliqué, and binding. A person who works at quilting is termed a quilter. Quilting can be done by hand, by sewing machine, or by a specialized longarm quilting system.

Quilt stores often sell fabric, thread, patterns and other goods that are used for quilting. They often have group sewing and quilting classes, where one can learn how to sew or quilt and work with others to exchange skills. Quilt stores often have quilting machines that can be rented out for use, or customers can drop off their quilts and have them professionally quilted.

Usage examples of "quilting".

In the same way, the Epeira puts the eiderdown quilting and the taffeta wrapper round a capsule that contains nothing.

The metal, nonskid quilting of the deck impressed its pattern on his flesh.

The tubeless tire Lydecker had been wrenching off its wheel contained a long sausage-like bundle done up in an old piece of quilting.

We were all heading back from the sun, heading back to the moon, in great shape really, despite the beerguts and cellulite quilting, the rug glue and snapper sealant.

Remembering what he had heard of frontier days on his own world, quilting parties, corn-husking bees, where hardworking farmers whiled the time with what would later be considered games for young children—bobbing for apples, blindman’s buff—he realized he should have expected this.

There were dried brown spots all about the white quilting that lined the lower half of the coffin, that had been bloodspots flung about from his flailing, gashed fingertips.

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Amateur theatricals, people giving lessons in the guitar and piano, quilting bees, glee clubs, learn-how-to-make-it groups, debating societies, mushroom-collecting circles….

Then they'd given her clothes cut like her jump suit but made of puffy quilting.

Catty-corner across the road, next to McHenry's electronics store, The Quilting Bee had finally given up the ghost, old Laura moving all of her stuff out yesterday.

A wrecking bee instead of a quilting bee, Larry thought, and his eye caught one of the posters headed MASS MEETING, this one nailed to a telephone pole.

She and her friends were having a Friday night quilting bee, repairing canvas sails under the yellow light of an alcohol lamp.

But there was no way to save the sails and the dreadnoughts tended to look as if they'd just won first prize in a quilting bee.

The room was bare but spacious, and a bed of ebony with opulent quiltings of an olden fashion stood by the farther wall under an open window.

Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.