Originally Posted by schwanton
I had a challenge for my guild. I made a small little quilt with decorative stitches and embellishments. I then layered, quilted and put on binding. My husband said "it's not a quilt". My daughter said it's not a quilt because a quilt is something you sleep with. Well, I use the term quilt no matter what the size and I did "quilt" it. What is it we are doing if we are not quilting?
A tempest in at teapot. Abraham Lincoln once asked his cabinet, "If I call a dog's tail its leg, how many legs does it have?" After all had said, "Five," Lincoln said, "Four. A tail is a tail and a leg is a leg."
To my dismay, after consulting old fashion paper dictionaries and on-line dictonaries, I find that they all agree that a quilt is a bed covering, a defintion with which I do not agree. I suppose that means that all those quilts I made for DGD's dollies are not really quilts.
However, I found a couple of definitions that will re-open the battle over whether it is proper to call a quilt a blanket
because embedded in them is the word "blanket" as in "a quilt is a blanket..."
The quilt you shared with us is absolutely lovely! Thanks for sending the picture. froggyintexas