The dress used for this purpose, consisted of a sort of thick cloak, covered with feathers, like those of the South Sea islands, and was so fashioned, by means of a tight thick quilting, as to make the wearer, at a little distance, very much resemble an overgrown bird, except that the legs were somewhat too thick.

The Old Ladies' Home is making preparations for its annual quilting bee.

The President tapped with her thimble upon the quilting frame and every one became very busy.

Marie Antoinette, as we have seen, had expressed her belief that they designed to assassinate Louis, and she now employed herself, as she had done once before, in quilting him a waistcoat of thickness sufficient to resist a dagger or a bullet; though so incessant was the watch which was set on all their movements that it was with the greatest difficulty that she could find an opportunity of trying it on him.

At sewing-circle and quilting and frolics, I'm as good as any; but somehow I'm never any 'count at home; that's because Lurindy is by, at home.

Dobbin being a bit short of wind, and quilting sadly, stuck fast in the mire, and tumbled on to his nose in scrambling out.

"In one of our strolls in the town of Tonneins," says he, "we entered a house where a number of girls were quilting.

Says he: "As my carriage rattled through the quiet streets of Tonneins, and the postilion smacked his whip with the French love of racket, I looked out for the house where, forty years before, I had seen the quilting party.

Five hundred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together.

I never went to a quilting.

"The lady held on by the driver; and so, Away about town at full trot would they go; Or perhaps to a great country marriage, To Thanksgiving-supperto husking, or ball; Or quilting; for thus did they take nearly all Their rides, on an animal carriage!

Likewise the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 1850 endorsed the fining of a public patrol which had whipped the slaves at a quilting party despite their possession of written permission from their several masters.

The Court said of the quilting party: "The occasion was a perfectly innocent one, even meritorious....

They don't think about quilting now.

They would have a big supper at the quilting.

Also, Uncle Wiggily's quilting party.

Also, Uncle Wiggily's quilting party.

"I remember wen we uster hev big time quilting on dem days we sho had a big time fore we start in de morning wid a water melon feast, den weuns quilt erwhile den a big dinner war spread out den after dinner we'd quilt in the evening den supper and a big dance dat night, wid de banjo a humming en us niggers a dancing, "Oh, Lawdy wat good days dem war.

While the men were raising barn-timbers and roof-trees, the women gathered about the quilting-frames or the spinning-wheels.

Their Dress, their Tea, and their Visits take up all their Time, and they go to Bed as tired with doing nothing, as I am after quilting a whole Under-Petticoat.

He had by this time entirely lost all hope of quilting the hated soil of Russia.

Whenever there was a wedding, frolic or holiday or quilting bee, she was sure to provide some extra "goody" and so dear to the hearts of the women were the cast off clothes she so often bestowed upon them on these occasions.

The slaves were sometimes given special holidays and on those days they would give "quilting" parties (quilt making) and dances.

" Much work was needed to supply the demands of so large a plantation but the slaves were often given time off for frolics (dances), (quilting-weddings).

" I passed a feverish night, employing the first part of it in quilting my diamonds into a belt which I placed about my waist; and the remainder in putting together as many useful, as well as a few handsome clothes, as my travelling-trunk would contain; bonnets, evening-dresses, which require room to dispose of, and the like vanities, I abandoned to Evelyn's tender mercies.