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Their 11-year-old daughter’s schedule is a crazy quilt of dance classes and competitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

That first week, we had a TV and a kind of makeshift conversation pit: a quilt, a mattress, some pillows.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

She has also made a quilt, using fabrics which reminded her of her time in prison.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

I don’t know what to call the music I’m making because it’s such a sonic quilt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The way the quilt and the sculptures are arranged, it looks as if the figures in the quilt have morphed into airborne figures from the storybook.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"The sheets I laid, the quilts I covered, and the clothes I wore were all covered with piles of patches," said Xu.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

It educates us in many arcane worlds of arts and crafts, quilts, chairs, pickle crocks and other items whose value really can be in the eye of the beholder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Patriotic 20th-century snapshots; souvenirs from the 1876 centennial; numerous depictions of Washington; flags; eagles and more join quilts, historical documents, paintings, toys and other works from 1776 to the present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

The kitchen windows are adorned with curtains made from quilts found at the Pasadena City College flea market and fabric from Remainders, a Pasadena craft store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Martin stuffed one of the old quilts into a chair without a seat and sank into it by degrees over the course of his visit.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

A quilted tablecloth memorialized the address numbers of all the homes on the street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

The Sport Prestige’s alpha-swagger is the intricately quilted Nappa leather upholstery, its puzzlework of seams outlined with contrasting piping and double stitching—an orange the company calls “Magma” but you may know better as “DOT Vest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

You see, vatnik originally referred to a quilted cotton jacket, the kind worn by Soviet workers, soldiers and prisoners alike.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

He hands me a tracksuit, underwear, lace-up trainers, a warm quilted jacket, a woolly hat.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

She has joined a quilting club, found a church community and has a dedicated exercise routine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

For example, quilting has long been a domestically appropriate medium for women to express their political beliefs, well before they had the right to vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

"It wasn’t her family pictures, it wasn't her jewellery, it was her quilting."

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

Porter’s story begins in small-town Iowa, where she was raised by a father who was a farmer turned loan officer and a homemaker mother who later found fame in the world of quilting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr. .

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker