If you only knew how many I have promised; and Aunt Theresa has a basket quilt cut out for me to make, sixty-four blocks!
Thank you, dear," said Mr. Wadsworth to his wife as she laid an extra quilt across his feet.
The piecework quilt hung down in long folds, flashing its brilliant reds and greens in the sunshine, which shone so strangely upon the pallid old countenance, facing the open sky for the first time in years.
Mehetabel's quilt came to be one of the town sights, and no one was allowed to leave the town without having paid tribute to its worth.
You see, I went right to the room where the quilt was and then I didn't want to leave it.
By some heaven-sent inspiration she had invented a pattern beyond which no patchwork quilt could go.
One of the neighbors, who took the long journey to the fair, reported that the quilt was hung in a place of honor in a glass case in "Agricultural Hall.
A year went by and a quarter of the quilt was finished, a second year passed and half was done.
She lay flat on her back, the little emaciated wisp of humanity, hardly raising the piecework quilt enough to make the bed seem occupied, and to account for the thin, worn old face on the pillow.
One day some strangers from the next town drove up and asked if they could inspect the wonderful quilt which they had heard of, even down in their end of the valley.
That beats old Mis' Wightman's quilt that got the blue ribbon so many times at the county fair.
Minnie'll take an awful cold and die I just know, and my new pink silk quiltgot wet and the pink's run into the white!
And I cut some weenty bits of my hair ribbons and I traded for some of the mixy ones--and the quilt pieces.
Leaving the hut in a litter, with the door hanging open, the two tramps led the way north around the edge of the pond, followed by Blackie, who stumbled along blindly under the burden of the blankets and quilt and the lantern.
Reno finished first, wiped his greasy mouth on the back of his sleeve, yawned loudly, took one of Blackie's blankets and an old quilt he picked up somewhere, and laid out his bed on the floor of the hut.
These are to be covered with the traveller's own sheets--and if an eider-down quilt be not sufficient to keep him warm, his coat put upon it will increase the heat sufficiently.
She had just come out of Thérèse's room bringing a rose taffeta quilt to throw over the shivering girl.
His revelry, however, was put an end at the expiration of the time mentioned by Jonathan, by the entrance of a posse of constables with Quilt Arnold and Abraham Mendez at their head.
The fellow swore lustily, in a voice which Jack instantly recognised as that of Quilt Arnold, and vainly attempted to rise and draw his sword.
Gag him," he added, pushing Thames rudely towardQuilt Arnold, "and convey him to the boat.
While he thus vented his rage, the door again opened, and Quilt Arnold rushed into the room, bleeding, and half-dressed.
Quilt Arnold was stationed at the stair-head, near which the boat containing the captive boy was moored.
The young man could not look upon it; he could not bear to hear Doris's helpless, heart-broken sobbing; he could only keep to his knees and lay his humbled head lower on the old quilt and nearer hers.
The innermost bag was made of an old quilt and the next one of a blanket that we were fortunate enough to get hold of.
On real hot nights a fellow could get into the quilt bag and sleep on the blanket and waterproof bag.
She showed the quilt with loving pride and praise, but the story of it she kept in her heart, among her prayers.
Marion Kent made a beautiful silk quilt for Ray Ingraham, out of her sea-green and buff dresses, and had given it to her for a wedding-present.
The Plain Quilt is smaller, and useful as an extra covering on the bed, or as a wrapper in the carriage, or on the couch.
The Bordered Quilt is in the usual form of Bed Quilts, and is a most elegant and luxurious article.
Late lieabed under a quilt of old overcoats, fingering a pinchbeck bracelet, Dan Kelly's token.
Hannah and Susan were in the large, cool parlor working on the wonderful quilt which was to be a part of Hannah's wedding outfit, when one of the elders, a wealthy widower from Vermont, asked Susan to get him a drink.
The quilt on the guest chamber bed was one of the things; she would not look at it now.
Between the two of them, little Plummer and big, stretched of late a tie woven of sheets and a gorgeous quilt of a thousand bits.
That had been such a beautiful surprise, but this--Aunt 'Livia had seen the quilt so many, many times!
She could not look any longer at the picture in the great cobwebby barn--the gorgeous quilt spread out to its full extent, the empty scaffolds above Rebecca Mary stooping to her work, Thomas Jefferson pecking about the floor.
It's my Thousand Quilt that I'm making for Aunt 'Livia," explained Rebecca Mary.
You get sort of tired when you quilt a LONG quilt.
It makes your back creak when you unbend it; and when you quiltin a barn, of course you can't see without squinching, and it hurts your eyes to squinch.
A little after the afternoon that Rebecca Mary spent at the minister's the birthday quilt was finished.
Upstairs under the pink quilt the rigid little figure relaxed just enough to admit of getting out of bed and fumbling in the little carpetbag.
On my last visit to Professor William Libbey at Princeton, this quilt covered the bed given me.
So I received a large basket full, and immediately went to patching a quilt for Will Libbey, my favorite pupil.
And this quilt talked to me, as my hands touched the sensitized satin, and I breathed again the perfume of the courage and faith that hallowed the work.
I had forgotten the quilt patching until this one wrapped me around, and awakened a thousand recollections.
Once I lay 'neath quilt of green, All unthought of, all unseen; Little thinking of the world Out of which I had been hurled.
He straightened the quilt over his mother's meagre shoulders.
Ann's little body scarcely raised the patchwork quilt on the bed; her face, sunken in the feather pillows, looked small and weazened as a sick child's in the dim light.
When Aunt Henshaw died, which was just about the time that I was grown up, she left the quilt to me in her will; because, as she said.
It was like the bride of the house, in the seclusion of her midday siesta, resting on a many-coloured quilt of her own embroidering, murmuring low the secrets of her heart.
Then we would row back to the landing steps of the villa and seat ourselves on a quilt spread on the terrace facing the river.
And she let her hands stay quite still in Polly’s clasp, and the two tears on her round cheeks ran down on the old quilt unheeded.
In the centre they placed another brazier, protected by a square wooden grating, with a large silk eider-down quilt laid over it, to keep in the heat.
In due time brazier and quilt are removed, and dinner makes its appearance.
Elizabeth would not be outdone; she purchased a starquilt pieced in red and white.
In just a little while we had the room in perfect order: the bed nicely made with soft, new blankets for sheets; the pretty star quilt on, and the nice, clean pillows protected by the shams.
She pulled the quilt up to her face, but her hands would not obey her, but tore convulsively at everything she clutched.
The quilt wuzn't touched after that night, and the heathen lay cold all winter, for all I know.
When she saw an indistinct shape in the corner, and mistook his knees raised under the quilt for his shoulders, she imagined a horrible body there, and stood still in terror.
The quilt of a high, white feather bed was just visible behind a screen.
He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment.
