Originally Posted by
grandjan
... I went to a bed-turning once and a beautiful quilt was displayed, made in the 50's, with a huge three-cornered tear in it. It seems that the owner's husband (whose mother had made the quilt) had laid it down on the floor and used it to slide a bureau from one side of the room to the other. It was enough to make you weep. The quilt was stunning. Who could do that? Well, someone who just doesn't know quilting and doesn't care much. And there are lots of them.
What on earth is a bed-turning? I have never heard of this, but in this context, it almost seems that the woman was trying to draw attention to the horrible thing her husband had done to that quilt!