Editing Quilt (section)

=== Quilting ===
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A key component that defines a quilt is the stitches holding the three layers together—the quilting. Quilting, typically a running stitch, can be achieved by hand or by sewing machine. Hand quilting has often been a communally productive act with quilters sitting around a large quilting frame. One can also hand quilt with a hoop or other method. With the development of the [[sewing machine]], some quilters began to use the sewing machine, and in more recent decades machine quilting has become quite commonplace, including with [[longarm quilting]] machines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldquilts.quiltstudy.org/americanstory/quiltsare/quilting|title=Quilting|last=International Quilt Study Center & Museum|date=2013|website=World Quilts: The American Story|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref>