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A quilting bee is a social gathering to harness communal work to complete a quilt. The term is commonly used across the USA. Traditionally a women-only space the purpose was for the communal work to complete the quilt and as a social event or party. Participants could include only family members, friends, or people drawn from the wider community.
The International Honor Quilt (also known as the International Quilting Bee) is a collective feminist art project initiated in 1980 by Judy Chicago as a companion piece to The Dinner Party. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The piece is a collection of 539 two-foot-long quilted triangles that honor women from around the world. [ 3 ]
A quilting bee is a form of communal work. Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising.Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling, and subbotniks.
The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members located throughout the Black Belt of Alabama. [1] Black women created the cooperative in 1966 to generate income for their families. In December 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught his eye.
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.
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