The communal gathering where quilters work together on a shared quilt, distinct from quilting itself, the hand craft of stitching layered fabric into a padded textile. Its value lay as much in the company as the needlework: participants used the time to swap news, share recipes, offer home remedies, exchange fabric scraps, learn new techniques and teach their daughters. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Established When (Circa)The word "bee" for a communal work gathering was already established in colonial America; "quilting bee" itself is a nineteenth-century coinage for the practice, most closely associated with the United States and Canada. 1 Connections
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its true significance was the chance it provided for women to swap news, share recipes, offer home remedies, exchange fabric scraps, discuss personal issues, learn new techniques, and teach their daughters
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