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Sewing vs Quilting - What's the difference?

sewing | quilting |

As verbs the difference between sewing and quilting

is that sewing is while quilting is .

As nouns the difference between sewing and quilting

is that sewing is the action of the verb to sew while quilting is a layer or layers of quilted padding.

sewing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to sew .
  • Something that is being or has been sewn.
    • She put down her sewing and went to answer the door.
    The sewing has come undone on this seam.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Mrs. Flanders had left her sewing on the table. There were her large reels of white cotton and her steel spectacles; her needle-case; her brown wool wound round an old postcard.

    Derived terms

    * sewing machine

    Anagrams

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    quilting

    English

    Noun

  • A layer or layers of quilted padding.
  • (nautical, archaic) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
  • The practice of creating quilts

    • Verb

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