Quilting Acronyms
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Michele Bilyeu
http://with-heart-and-hands.blogspot.com/
AAQI=Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative= a wonderful place to donate or buy quilts!
BOB=Beginner's Only Block
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 their Collaborative Quilting books.
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 dayQR=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
Sozzled=SO ZZed Left Everything Disastered ;) =created just for Clare ;)
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 patternTOAD=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 ProjectYBR=Yellow Brick Road, a popular quilting patternYoYo=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
;© Michele M. Bilyeu 2010
Michele Bilyeu quilts for AAQI..the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative. Won't you please join us? :)
wow! great list. great string quilt too!
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you would want to add that a charm pack is generally 5" squares. Also, perhaps add Layer cakes which are generally packs of 10" squares. Jelly rolls are generally 2.5" wide by WOF (also called noodles.
All of the food cuts too: candy bars (2.5 x 5" rectangles), turnovers (6" triangles), and mini charm packs (2.5" squares).
This could become never ending!
Thanks for sharing the list.
I love your quilt. Congrats on finishing #6.
ReplyDeleteMy dh loved FART!! Thanks for such a great list. Hugs
I see she had some of our basic food groups in there, some mixed in with their source product and a few new ones added in after she must have done some editing. I guess we can graze or feast at leisure now LOL
ReplyDeleteLove the list!
ReplyDeleteBut I didn't see FM - Free-Motion!
And my hubby says that with all the charms, layer cakes and jelly rolls it is only natural that we have "fat quarters".
Oh you clever girl! Like the way you've included LQ (smile). I'd also call frog stitching "ribbit".
ReplyDeleteLove the quuilt too.
PS: Meant to say can you put it in the Files section?
ReplyDeletewow is right!! Had no idea you were compiling a list of all that alphabet soup! LOL, what fun..so many I've never heard of, I must be quilting lingo challenged!
ReplyDeleteThe quilt is beautiufl and oh my gosh....it's BIG! Congrats on finish # 6. I have your explicit instructions memorized and will act upon them in due time *VBS* Love ya bunches GF!! Hugs, Finn
El edredón está precioso!!!!.
ReplyDeleteNecesitaría muchos años para aprenderme las abreviaturas que se utilizan en patchwork. Un beso
Great quilt and love the list - thanks for the smile!
ReplyDeleteGreat list Michele, posting it with a link back to you :^)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with Finn's NYE challenge!
Great list - there were some that I hadn't seen yet. Can't wait to share this with my bee.
ReplyDeleteYour string quilt is beautiful. And huge. Congratulations on a great finish! That's a great list - not sure how you find time to make that when you've got quilts to make.
ReplyDeleteVery nice quilt and you have outdone yourself with the list. My personal favorites, besides FART of course, are the 401s. I'm really a bit concerned (or at least that's what I tell hubby) that I won't have enough stuff for retirement. Now I have a name for all that stuff. Thanks, Sue in Mi
ReplyDeleteYour quilts and photos are so professional-looking. I love them! And that list...amazing!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love, your list!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your quilting acronyms list. I knew some of the acronyms, was guessing about several of them and was totally lost with the rest!
ReplyDeleteProject #6 is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
LOL!!! I knew most of the acronyms but a few were new to me, and a couple really made me LOL. Hadn't heard of SEX for example ;- ) Or FART either for that matter. Guess I don't get out enough. I had one not on your list that I've already forgotten. If it comes back to me I'll let you know.
ReplyDeleteMostly I came over to give you a big CONGRATULATIONS on finishing all ten of your NYE projects. Way to go! Of course you are our designated OA (over achiever) so we shouldn't really be surprised :- )
I have linked both of your Free Quilt patterns and Free block patterns to my blog.
ReplyDeleteMy blog is:
elliesue-littlefairywren.blogspot.com
Thank you for the information on how to do it.