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quilt| Padded bed cover or the method used to make padded covers or clothing. The padded effect is achieved by sewing a layer of down, cotton, wool, or other stuffing between two outer pieces of material; patterned sewing is used (often incorporating diamond shapes or floral motifs). |
| Quilts have been made in the home for centuries throughout Europe, the East, and the USA. They are sometimes decorated with patchwork or embroidery. |
| In the USA, group or family efforts resulted in quilting bees, where several people sewed and visited on certain days to finish the project (in time for a wedding or baby, for example) and to have company in a vast, relatively unpopulated colonial farming region. |
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| The patches are of all shapes and sizes, so a patchwork quilt is a very pretty and gorgeous thing to look at. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade --owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times --this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt. Indeed, as Jones returned to his bed in the dark, he had never perceived the muff on the quilt, and, in leaping into his bed, he had tumbled it on the floor. |
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