Useful Acronyms to Know

Courtesy of Michele at With Heart and Hands here is a comprehensive list of useful acronyms for us quilters

BOM=Block of the Month

Candy Bars=Stacks of 2 1/2" x 5" fabric packs

Charms=Small pieces of fabric, usually 5" squares or hexagons, all different fabrics in the pack

Charm packs=package of pre-cut charm 5" squares: Mini's are 2 1/2"squares in a pack

CQ=Crazy Quilting (traditional quilt pattern with embellishments)

COC=Cream on Cream

DJ=Dear Jane (a traditional quilt pattern)

D4P=Double Four Patch

DIC=Double Irish Chain

Dimes=10" squares

DIY=Do It Yourself

DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine

EQ=Electric Quilting software, now EQ5,6, or 7

F8=Fat 1/8th or 9"x 22"

FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

FIU=Finish It Up

FLIMSY=pieced top

FM=Free Motion, quilting technique w. random stippling, swirls, or patterns, w. or w/o dropped feeddogs, usually on a GSM

FQ=Fat Quarter, 18" x 22" of fabric, sold by unit

Frog Stitching=rip it, rip it....ripping stitches out

FW=Featherweight (Singer) sewing machine

FW=Fusible Web (take care to iron this one, sew with the above)

Giterdone=Get 'er Done! Term most often used for ancient or dreaded projects

GFG=Grandmother's Flower Garden, a traditional quilt pattern

HP=Hand Piecing

HQ=Hand Quilting

HST=Half-Square Triangle

HSY=Haven't Started Yet

Jelly Rolls=pre-cut 21/2" x 42" fabric strips, rolled up and sold in a set

LA=Long Armer, professional machine quilter

LAQ=Long Arm Quilting machine

LC=Layer Cakes, a pile of co-ordinating 10" squares

LQ or LibQ=Liberated Quiltmaking, free form quilting without striving for precision or perfection

LQS=Local Quilt Shop

MAQ=Mid-Arm Quilter

Nickles=5" squares

NQR=Not Quilt Related, as in board or group off topic, topic and it's oppostie QR

OBW=One-Block Wonder

Orphans=as in Orphan blocks, in LQ, orphans happily co-exist with one another w/o prejudice of any kind and are highly valued and treasured members of one's STASH and Parts Dept.

OSMG=old sewing machine guy, your go-to fellow for repairs

Parts Department= a collaborative quilting term for orphans or other pre-made blocks, sashings, bindings or trim pieces that can be put together and live in harmony in new quilts. First used by Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran in "Collaborative Quilting " and "Freddy & Gwen..."

PFD=fabric that is Prepared For Dying

PHD=Project Half Done

PIGS=Projects in Grocery Sacks

PIM=Project in Mind

PIPs=Project in Progress

PITs=Projects in Totes

PIW=Project in Waiting (not yet a WIP)

PP=Paper Piecing

QAYG=Quilt As You Go-A quilting/piecing process which incorporates sewing together a block and quilting it at the same time.

QUIMM=Quilt In My Mind

QUTD=Question Of The Day: quilting group or board top for discussion that day

QR=Quilt Related and NQR: it's opposite

Quilt Candy=Small charm pieces of fabric, folded up to look like candy

QST=Quarter Square Triangles

RR=Round Robin (quilt exchange, passing around a group taking turns with it)

SABLE=Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy

SAQM=Small Arm Quilting Machine

SaS=Steam a Seam iron on double faced interfacing/non stitching product

SEX=Stash Enhancing eXperience (or eXcursion)

SID=Stitch In (the) Ditch, quilting technique

Siggies=Squares of fabric with signatures and other info on them

SnW=Stack 'n Whack, pile them up and cut them all at once block pattern

SQ=Simply Quilts

Squishy=Envelopes filled with swap fabric or gifts sent/received in the mail

STASH=Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden

SUI=Shopping Under Influence (usually with a friend)

SWAN=Swap Without a Name

TBQ=To Be Quilted

TGIF=Thank Goodness It’s Finished!

TIC=Triple Irish Chain, a traditional quilt pattern

TOAD=Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust

TOT=Tone-on-Tone

TUFO=Tuesday UFO night, also WUFO etc.

Turnovers=6"triangles fabrics in a pack

UFO=UnFinished Object

USO=UnStarted Object

WHIM=Work Hidden In Mind

WHIMM=Work Hidden In My Mind

WIP=Work In Progress

WISP=Work In Slow Progress

WIVSP=Work In Very Slow Progress

WIWMI=Wish It Would Make Itself

WOA=Work Of Art

WOF=Width of Fabric

WOMBAT=Waste of Money, Batting, and Time

WOW=White On White

WWIT=What Was I Thinking

VIP=Very Import Project

YBR=Yellow Brick Road, a popular quilting pattern

YoYo=a circle of fabric, gathered and sewn into a puffy circle; also one who makes them

401 F=Fabric for Retirement

401 P= Patterns for retirement

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