I lay on the coverlet that was stretched across the quilting-frame and heard all the gossip of 1799. Reputations were ripped and torn just as they are now.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
It was she who wrought at the quilting-frame and netted the best bed-curtains.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
But prosperity did not spoil Melinda, and James Markham's chances were quite as good when, dressed in pink silk, with camelias in her hair, she entertained some half-dozen judges and M.C.'s as when in brown delaine and magenta ribbons she danced a quadrille at some "quilting bee out West."
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes