Fiber, Sewing, and Quilting: Acronyms, Abbreviations & Slang
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5
- 5”Square of fabric (used in Charm Packs)
- 5” Pre-Cut Fabric Bundles
6
- 6” Triangles in a bundle
1
- 10” Square cuts of fabric bundled (usually of a single fabric line)
- 10” Piece of Fabric
4
- 401F
- 401P
a
- Ancient or Dreaded Project
b
- Basic Sewing Supplies
- Beginner’s Only Block / Block On Board
- BJS
- Block Of the Month
- BOB
- BOM
- BSS
- Bubble Jet Set
c
- C/L
- Can’t Remember A Flipping Thing
- CAW
- CB
- CC
- Center Back
- Center Front
- CF
- Charm
- Charm Pack
- Circle of fabric with edges turned under and gathered with running stitch
- CIU
- Coats and Clark
- COC
- Cotton Lycra
- Cover Stitch
- CQ
- CRAFT
- Crazy Quilt
- Cream On Cream
- CS
- Curve It Up
- Cut Away (stabilizer)
d
- D4P
- Dear Jane
- DIC
- Dime
- DIY
- DJ
- Do It Yourself
- Domestic Sewing Machine
- Double Four Patch
- Double Irish Chain
- Double Wedding Ring
- DSM
- DWR
e
- E2E
- EBA
- Edge-to-Edge
- Electric Quilt Company (often used when referring to software)
- Enormous Bottom Adjustment
- Envelopes containing swap fabrics or blocks
- EQ
f
- F8
- Fabric Accumulation Road Trip / Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
- Fabric Acquisition Disease
- Fabric Savings Account/Stash For Retirement
- Fabric squares with signatures
- FAD
- FART
- Fat Eighth - See F8
- Fat Eighth (9”x 22”)
- Fat Quarter of fabric (18”x 22”)
- FBA
- FE
- Fear Of Binding
- FFO
- FHS
- Finally Finished Object
- Finish It Up
- Finished quilt top (not quilted)
- FIU
- FL
- FLIMSY
- FM
- FMQ
- FN
- FOB
- FOE
- Fold Line
- Fold Over Elastic
- FQ
- Free Hand Sewing
- Free Motion
- Free Motion Quilting
- Frivolous Necessity
- Frog
- Full Bust Alteration
- Fusible Web / Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine
- FW
g
- GFG
- GitErDone
- GL
- Grain Line
- Grandmother’s Flower Garden
h
- Half Square Triangle
- Hand Piecing
- Hand Quilting
- Hard To Find
- Haven’t Started Yet
- HIPS
- HP
- HQ
- HST
- HSY
- HTF
- Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward
i
- In The Ditch
- In The Hoop
- ITD
- ITH
j
- Jelly Roll
l
- LA
- LAQ
- LAQM
- Layer Cake
- LC
- LFS
- Liberated Quilt making
- Liberating Quilt making
- LIBQ
- Local Fabric Shop
- Local Quilt Shop
- Long Arm
- Long Arm Quilter / Long Arm Quilting
- Long Arm Quilting Machine
- LQ
- LQS
m
- Made To Order
- MAQ
- MAQM
- MGBTQ
- Mid Arm Quilter
- Mid Arm Quilting Machine
- MTO
- Must Get Back To Quilting
n
- New Old Stock (unused vintage parts)
- Nickel
- Nine-Patch Block / Needle Punched Batting
- NOS
- Not Quilt Related / Not Question Related
- NPB
- NQR
o
- OBW
- Old Sewing Machine Guru / Old Sewing Machine Guy
- One Block Wonder
- One Of A Kind
- OOAK
- OOP
- OSMG
- Out Of Print
p
- PAD
- Paper Foundation Piecing
- Paper Piecing
- Pattern Addiction Disease
- Patterns For Retirement
- PFD
- PFP
- PHD
- PIGS
- PIM
- PIP
- PIT
- PIW
- POM
- PP
- Pre cut strips 2 ½”x 42”of a fabric line rolled together
- Prepared For Dyeing
- Project Half Done
- Project In Mind
- Project In Process
- Project In Tote
- Project In Waiting
- Project Of the Month
- Projects In Grocery Sacks
q
- QAL
- QAYG
- QCR
- QIMM
- QOTD
- QR
- QST
- Quarter Square Triangle
- Question of The Day
- Quick Curve Ruler
- Quilt Along
- Quilt As You Go
- Quilt Candy
- Quilt In My Mind
- Quilt Related / Question Related
- Quilts In My Mind
- QUIMM
- QUTD
r
- Read The Flipping Manual
- Ready To Wear
- Right Side
- Right Side Out
- Right Side Up
- Right Sides Together
- Rip Out Stitches (rip it, rip it)
- Round Robin / Round Robin Swap
- RR(S)
- RS
- RSO
- RST
- RSU
- RTFM
- RTW
s
- SA
- SABLE
- SADD
- SAL
- SAQM
- SAS
- Seam Allowance
- Sew Along
- Sew and Show
- Sew It Yourself
- Sew Kind Of Wonderful / Some Kind of Wonderful
- Sewing Attention Deficit Disorder
- Sewing Machine Acquisition Disorder
- Sewing Machine Oil
- SEX
- Shop Hop
- Shopping Under Influence
- Siggies
- Simply Quilts
- Single Needle Top Stitching
- SITD
- SIY
- SKOW
- SMAD
- Small Arm Quilting Machine
- Small fabric folded to look like candy
- Small Pieces of Fabric
- SMO
- SNS
- SNTS
- SNW
- Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
- SQ
- Squishy
- Stack and Whack
- STASH
- Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
- Stash Enhancing Excursion, Expedition, or Experience
- Steam A Seam / Steam A Stitch
- Stitch In The Ditch
- SUI
- SWAN
- Swap Without A Name
t
- TAW
- TBQ
- Tear Away (stabilizer)
- TGIF
- THAD
- Thank God It’s Finished
- Thread Acquisition Disorder
- TIC
- To Be Quilted
- TOAD
- Tone On Tone
- TOT
- Trashed Object Abandoned In Disgust
- Trip or event visiting multiple shops
- Triple Irish Chain
- True To Size
- TTS
- Turnover
u
- UFO
- Un-started Object
- Unfinished Object
- USO
v
- Very Important Project
- VIP
w
- Waste Of Money Batting And Time
- Water Soluble Stabilizer
- What Was I Thinking
- WHIM
- WHIMM
- White On White
- Width Of Fabric
- WIMM
- WIP
- Wish It Would Make Itself
- WISP
- WIVSP
- WIWMI
- WOA
- WOF
- WOMBAT
- Work Hidden In Mind
- Work In My Mind
- Work In Progress
- Work In Slow Progress
- Work In Very Slow Progress
- Work Of Art
- Works Hidden In My Mind
- WOW
- Wrong Side
- Wrong Sides Together
- WS
- WSS
- WST
- WWIT
y
- YBR
- Yellow Brick Road
- YOYO