Quilting Acronyms
©original list by
Michele Bilyeu
www. with-heart-and-hands..com
Please link to Quilting Acronyms and do not copy this list!
It is my own compilation after years of saves and many of these I came up with, myself!
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Auto Pilot Quilting=few decisions required. Shift into no brainer mode if you have that speed
BOB=Beginner's Only Block
BOM=Block of the Month
Brain Dead Quilting=Auto Pilot quilting on overdose
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
DWI=Design Wall Indecision (thanks Heidi!)
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
GTMA=Great Minds Think Alike
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
Mean Sandwich=quilting with one nice comment between two mean ones
Mind Sorbet= a project that is easy and cleanses your creative palette.
Nickles=5" squares
NQR=Not Quilt Related, as in board or group off topic, topic and it's oppostie QR
OBW=One-Block Wonder
One Night Stand=a really fast project, often unplanned, may feel good now but not so good later
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
OT=quilters talking off topic
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
QADD=Quilter's Attention Deficit Disorder speaks for itself. Guilty as charged! (QAC)
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)
Rote Sewing=quilters on auto pilot, drugs, or asleep
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 pattern
TFQ=The Fabric Queen...you know who she is.
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
© This compilation by Michele M. Bilyeu 2007, 2010 and updated 2014
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