#quilting bee

[mouseshouses]

Quilting bee

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A Quaker quilting bee at the Friends Meeting House in Flushing, at Northern Blvd., s.s.e. of Main St., 1934.

Photo: C. Manley DeBevoise via NYPL

[the-cricket-chirps]

Candis Mosely Pettway

Coat of Many Colors

1970

[sleepycatmama]

I'm really understanding why quilters have quilting bees. I have the first of the two quilts clamped on the table as the quilt sandwich. And I feel awful. Ugh, it doesn't look good enough, the lines aren't straight enough. I know how I'd mark it if it was just 4 blocks, how do I extend that out to 36? How am I ever going to safety pin all this huge thing? And how awful is it going to be, trying to quilt it with the walking foot while taking out a safety pin every couple inches?

I need a group of quilters who did NOT piece this, gathering around and enthusiastically telling me ooh, this is great, don't worry, it's going to be fine, let's get this pinned. In the way I have heard described as locusts in reverse.

[bevanne46]

Open Quilting Group Meeting

Wednesday, October 23rd 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Reset Church 1410 8th Street, Marysville, WA 98270

We meet in the church basement, use the door off of 8th. Men, Women and Kids 10 and up are welcome If you sew, would like to learn to sew and/or quilt you are welcome! Please private message me if you have questions

[hazyaliendayz]

Thinking n wanting n thinking and quilting  things!

[quiltails]

"The Four Queens" by Victoria Rondeau of Ocala, Florida. It's always nice to bump into friends at a quilt show. Victoria was a member of my guild before she moved. This quilt, from the pattern "The Quilting Bee" by Jo Ann Hoffman, was made for a guild challenge using hexagons. Appliqued and embellished with crystals. Photo taken at the International Quilt Festival Houston 2017

[pitch-and-moan]

The Quitting Bee

A series of stories, old ladies sitting around telling one another increasingly absurd tales of why they gave up working on the quilt they’d been making.