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quilting  noun A gathering of women to help a neighbor sew quilts and to socialize, sometimes in conjunction with a working of some type.

1861 Odell CW Letters (Oct 11) tell Adline & marget shiply that wee wood like to be to the quilten. 1924 Abernethy Moonshine 132 They never went anywhere; that is to say, the women went wherever there was a “quiltin’” or birth in the neighborhood; the men went to “corn-shuckin’s,” “log-rollin’s,” and, on every fifth Sunday, to the meetin’-house. 1957 Hall Coll (Gatlinburg TN) = up to 50 yrs. ago [the term] was used to describe a gathering of ladies to make a quilt, a new bed cover. [It’s] never heard now as far as I know. 1991 Thomas Sthn Appal 225 It was not uncommon for a woman to invite neighbors to come and help her “quilt” the quilt, that is, sew rows of stitches across it; this constituted what was called a “quiltin’,” a kind of women’s social.