Wiktionary
quilting bee
n. A social event in which people get together to make a quilt.
WordNet
quilting bee
n. a gathering to make quilts
Usage examples of "quilting bee".
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.