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单词 quilting bee
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Each circle is somewhat like an old-fashioned quilting bee. From thin air, 40,000 balloons add up to one giant public art installation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z
And here I thought that Aaron's main fans were more into quilting bees than jedi masters. After ho-hum theme night, hard to predict who will leave 'Idol' tonight 2010-04-28T20:31:00Z
A seemingly endless river, crocheted from a rainbow of blues, the work was created through "crochet parties" involving strangers and newfound friends in a modern update of the traditional quilting bee. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z
In a sense, it’s a quilting bee writ large. Gone but Never Forgotten in a Quilt 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z
“These sewing circles and knitting clubs and quilting bees were forums to talk about women’s rights, to propel the abolition of slavery, to create garments and blankets sold to provide income,” Rapaport said. Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z
Neighbors remained very important for activities like barn raisings, quilting bees, and cornhuskings. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
“This flag is not about college football games or quilting bees or fried chicken on Sunday,” he will finally say, by way of educating her. Need a new, old-fashioned sitcom to watch? This 'Golden Girls' spinoff is for you 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z
Years ago, Quilted Northern, the toilet-paper people, ran an animated TV commercial that showed a group of women sitting around a table at a quilting bee. Perspective | Can you knit a quilt? Of course not. And Marco Polo didn’t ride a llama to China. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z
Feminist researchers have argued that women have often had, at most, “invisible leisure” – enjoyable, but productive and socially sanctioned, activities like quilting bees, canning parties or book groups. A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to themselves | Brigid Schulte 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z
She said the act of visiting with friends and neighbors for sewing parties or quilting bees also broke women free of male control to swap news with their peers. EXCHANGE: Wicker baskets held many things, including freedom 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z
There were quilting bees, house raisings and community harvests. Five underutilized ways to give yourself an advantage with your college essay 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z
Twice a week, a group of women gather at the museum for an old-fashioned quilting bee. EXCHANGE: Exhibits at Macon County museum show local history 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z
“This is remindful of the old-timey quilting bees of another day,” he said. Tragedies lead 2 women to form outreach group 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z
The Arizona chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will use them during a quilting bee in Tucson. Tucson shooting survivors to assist with quilts 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z
She has to balance the constituencies of writers, readers, lawyers, publishers, sources, subjects, advertisers, and others, who collectively make the Hobbesian “warre of every one against every one” look like a quilting bee. On this Blogging Business, and Regarding Scolding 2013-10-14T22:15:00.360Z
A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z
It was neither a sewing society, nor a quilting bee, nor an apple paring. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z
"If the majority is to be taken seriously," Thomas wrote in dissent, "the federal government may now regulate quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 states." The Commerce Claws Come Out 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z
“We have weeding parties that are like quilting bees,” he said. Gardener Brings Coffey Park Back From Decay 2010-04-26T03:10:00Z
I didn't care for their frolics and sleighing parties and quilting bees. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir
In addition, serious organizations like the Farmer's Clubs, Community League or church-affiliated women's clubs, mixed work and play by sponsoring picnics, quilting bees, and oyster suppers. Frying Pan Farm
In-doors it was the same, and quilting bees and huskings and spinning bees made work and play shade into each other. Noah Webster American Men of Letters
Federal regulation of quilting bees isn't being litigated, but Obama's attempt to create a health insurance system covering all Americans surely is. The Commerce Claws Come Out 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z
But there, we don't mind it; the colder the merrier: winter's our time of fun: sleighing and skating parties, logging and quilting bees, and other sociabilities unknown to you in England. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement
I can remember several quilting bees, and I recall molding candles, and that our "company light" was a large kerosene lamp, in the glass globe of which a strip of red flannel was coiled. A Son of the Middle Border
The tale is told with sentiment and vivacity, giving bright pictures of a singing school, a quilting bee, and other old-time entertainments. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life
My Aunt Prissy will be very happy if you and the minister will come to her quilting bee to-morrow afternoon and stay to tea.’” A Little Maid of Ticonderoga
Why they beat a quilting bee for gabbling, except that they didn’t all talk at once.” Far Past the Frontier
And indeed there was plenty to be done, for a quilting bee was to Miss Bender’s mind a function of great importance. Patty's Summer Days
It is an occasion of merriment when the quilt is finally finished and taken out of the frames after many a pleasant quilting bee. Blue Ridge Country
Then there were corn huskings, wool shearings, apple parings, sugar boilings, and quilting bees.” Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
Marthy sat by the table in the big wooden chair peeling apples, while Abilonia rolled out the pie crust and told about the church quilting bee. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
Marcia was to help his mother next week at the quilting bee. Marcia Schuyler
When that hailstorm came we were all at a quilting bee. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
There were "harvest homes" and "quilting bees" and "loggings" and "barn raisings." Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
Aside from the quilting bees, which were notable affairs, collecting quilt patterns was to many women a source of both interest and enjoyment. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
They had accordingly a new and fruitful subject of discussion at the sewing societies and quilting bees of the town. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
There were many parties and what were called "shucking bees," where the company set to to assist the host in ridding the corn of its sheath; and quilting bees; and apple parings. Children of the Market Place
Now were instituted "quilting bees," and "husking bees," and other rural assemblages, where, under the inspiring influence of the fiddle, toil was enlivened by gayety and followed up by the dance. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
The Old Ladies' Home is making preparations for its annual quilting bee. Old Lady Number 31
Quilts occupied a preëminent place in the rural social scheme, and the quilting bees were one of the few social diversions afforded outside of the church. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
One evening, at this period, I attended a dance which wound up a "quilting bee," at a house about a mile distant from our own. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp
My servant was away at a quilting bee, and we were still in bed, when I heard the latch of the kitchen-door lifted up, and a step crossed the floor. Roughing It in the Bush
The sociable, gossipy “quilting bee,” where the quilt is put together and quilted, has planted in every community in which it is an institution the seeds of numberless lifelong friendships. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
An anecdote is told of a woman living in a quiet little New England village who complained of her loneliness there, where the quilting bees were the only saving features of an otherwise colourless existence. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
Much drudgery was lightened by the joyful anticipation of a neighbourhood quilting bee. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
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