Woman Is A Quilt For millennia women through out the world have spent their 'spare time' making quilts. A quilt is a bed covering or garment, that consists of three layers of fabric; A top, the batting, and the backing/lining. In Raymond Bial's With Needle and Thread He states, "the first known depiction of quilting is from 3400 B.C. and features an Egyptian pharaoh wearing a quilted garment". (Bial 18). It is believed decorative quilting …showed first 75 words of 496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 496 total…as she quilted. Learning how to sew was like learning how to walk, inevitable. I love the feel of an unfinished quilt in my lap as I hand stitch it. I love designing new and beautiful pieces of useful art, then making them real. I give most of them away to family and friends, each one contains love in every stitch. Works Cited Bial, Raymond. With Needle and Thread. Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.