Fiber, Sewing, and Quilting: Glossary
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- 5”Square of fabric (used in Charm Packs)
- 5” Pre-Cut Fabric Bundles
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- 6” Triangles in a bundle
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- 10” Piece of Fabric
- 10” Square cuts of fabric bundled (usually of a single fabric line)
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- 401F
- 401P
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- Album Quilt
- Allover
- Allover Design
- Amish Quilt
- Ancient or Dreaded Project
- Applique
- Applique (Machine)
- Applique (Needle Turn)
- Applique (Raw Edge)
- Assembly Piecing
- Attachment
- Autograph Quilt
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- Baby Quilt
- Background Fabric
- Backing
- Backlash
- Backstitch
- Bagel Bobbin
- Baltimore Album Quilt
- Bargello
- Bark Cloth
- Basic Sewing Supplies
- Basting
- Batik
- Batiste
- Batting
- Bearding
- Beginner’s Only Block / Block On Board
- Betweens
- Bias
- Bias Tape
- Binding
- Bird Nesting
- BJS
- Blanket Stitch
- Bleed
- Block
- Block Of the Month
- Blocking
- Boat Shuttle
- BOB
- Bobbin
- Bobbin Case
- BOM
- Border
- Bridal Quilt
- Broadcloth
- Broderie Perse
- BSS
- Bubble Jet Set
- Bullet
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- C/L
- Calendering
- Calico
- Can’t Remember A Flipping Thing
- Carriage
- CAW
- CB
- CB Hook
- CC
- Center Back
- Center Front
- CF
- Chain Piecing
- Chain Stitch
- Charm
- Charm Pack
- Circle of fabric with edges turned under and gathered with running stitch
- CIU
- Cloth Plate
- Clutch Motor
- Coats and Clark
- COC
- Continuous Curve Quilting
- Continuous Line Quilting
- Corner Square
- Corner Triangle
- Cornerstone
- Cotton Lycra
- Counterpane
- Cover Stitch
- CQ
- CRAFT
- Crazy Block
- Crazy Quilt
- Cream On Cream
- Crib Quilt
- Cross-Hatching
- Crosswise Grain
- CS
- Curve It Up
- Cut Away (stabilizer)
- Cutting Mat (Rotary)
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- D4P
- D9 Bobbin
- Darning Foot
- Dear Jane
- DIC
- Dime
- Directional Print
- DIY
- DJ
- Do It Yourself
- Domestic Sewing Machine
- Double Four Patch
- Double Irish Chain
- Double Wedding Ring
- Drape
- Drop Bobbin
- DSM
- DWR
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- E2E
- Easing
- EBA
- Echo Quilting
- Edge Stitching
- Edge to Edge
- Edge-to-Edge
- Electric Quilt Company (often used when referring to software)
- English Paper Piecing
- Enormous Bottom Adjustment
- Envelopes containing swap fabrics or blocks
- EQ
- EQ7
- Eye Lashing
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- F8
- F8 / FE
- 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
- Fat Eighth - See F8
- Fat Eighth (9”x 22”)
- Fat Quarter
- Fat Quarter of fabric (18”x 22”)
- FBA
- FE
- Fear Of Binding
- Feathering
- Feed Dogs
- Feed Sacks
- Feel
- FFO
- FHS
- Fill Pattern
- Finally Finished Object
- Finger Pressing
- Finish It Up
- Finished quilt top (not quilted)
- Finished Size
- Finishing
- FIU
- FL
- Flannel
- Flax
- Flax Cloth
- FLIMSY
- FM
- FME
- FMQ
- FN
- FOB
- FOE
- Fold Line
- Fold Over Elastic
- Foundation Piecing
- FQ
- Fray
- Free Hand Sewing
- Free Motion
- Free Motion Embroidery
- Free Motion Quilting
- French Knot
- Friendship Quilt
- Frivolous Necessity
- Frog
- Full Bust Alteration
- Fusible Web
- Fusible Web / Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine
- Fussy Cut
- FW
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- GFG
- GitErDone
- GL
- Grain
- Grain Line
- Grandmother’s Flower Garden
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- Half Square Triangle
- Half Square Triangles
- Hand
- Hand Crank
- Hand Piecing
- Hand Quilting
- Hand Quilting Thread
- Hanging Sleeve
- Hard To Find
- Haven’t Started Yet
- Heat & Bond
- Hemming
- Hera
- HIPS
- Homespun Fabric
- Honing Stick
- Hoop
- HP
- HQ
- HST
- HSY
- HTF
- Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward
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- Improvisational Quilts
- In The Ditch
- In The Hoop
- Interfacing
- Irons
- Italian Quilting
- ITD
- ITH
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- Jelly Roll
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- LA
- Lap Quilting
- LAQ
- LAQM
- Lattice Strips
- Layer Cake
- LC
- Leaders
- LFS
- Liberated Quilt making
- Liberating Quilt making
- LIBQ
- Linen
- Local Fabric Shop
- Local Quilt Shop
- Loft
- Long Arm
- Long Arm Quilter / Long Arm Quilting
- Long Arm Quilting Machine
- Long Bobbin
- Long-Arm
- Long-Arm Quilting
- LQ
- LQS
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- Machine Quilting
- Made To Order
- MAQ
- MAQM
- Marking
- Marking Tools
- Marriage Quilt
- Masterpiece Quilt
- Meander
- Meandering
- Medallion Quilt
- Memory Quilt
- MGBTQ
- Micro Quilting
- Mid Arm Quilter
- Mid Arm Quilting Machine
- Miniature Quilts
- Mitered Corners
- Motif
- MTO
- Muslin
- Must Get Back To Quilting
- Mystery Quilt
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- Natural Fibers
- Needle Punched Batting
- Negative Space
- New Old Stock (unused vintage parts)
- Nickel
- Nine-Patch Block / Needle Punched Batting
- NOS
- Not Quilt Related / Not Question Related
- Notions
- Novelty Print
- NPB
- NQR
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- OBW
- Old Sewing Machine Guru / Old Sewing Machine Guy
- On Point
- One Block Wonder
- One Of A Kind
- OOAK
- OOP
- Oscillating Hook
- OSMG
- Out Of Print
- Outline Quilting
- Overall Quilting
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- PAD
- Pancake Bobbin
- Pantograph
- Paper Foundation Piecing
- Paper Piecing
- Patch
- Patchwork
- Pattern Addiction Disease
- Patterns For Retirement
- PFD
- PFP
- PHD
- Pieced Border
- Piecing
- PIGS
- PIM
- PIP
- PIT
- PIW
- Play Mat Quilt
- POM
- Pouncing
- PP
- Prairie Points
- Pre cut strips 2 ½”x 42”of a fabric line rolled together
- Prepared For Dyeing
- Pressed Quilt
- Pressing
- Project Half Done
- Project In Mind
- Project In Process
- Project In Tote
- Project In Waiting
- Project Of the Month
- Projects In Grocery Sacks
- Puzzle Quilt
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- QAL
- QAYG
- QCR
- QIMM
- QOTD
- QR
- QST
- Quarter Inch Foot
- Quarter Square Triangle
- Question of The Day
- Quick Curve Ruler
- Quick Cutting
- Quick Triangles
- Quillow
- Quilt
- Quilt Along
- Quilt As You Go
- Quilt Back
- Quilt Candy
- Quilt Challenge
- Quilt Guild
- Quilt In My Mind
- Quilt Label
- Quilt Making
- Quilt Related / Question Related
- Quilt Retreat
- Quilt Sandwich
- Quilt Sleeve
- Quilt Top
- Quilting
- Quilting Bee
- Quilting Foot
- Quilting Frame
- Quilting Hoop
- Quilting Lock-In
- Quilts In My Mind
- QUIMM
- QUTD
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- Rails
- Raw Edge
- Read The Flipping Manual
- Ready To Wear
- Redwork
- Reverse Applique
- Right Side
- Right Side Out
- Right Side Up
- Right Sides Together
- Rip Out Stitches (rip it, rip it)
- Rocker Stitch
- Rooster Tail
- Rotary Bobbin
- Rotary Cutter
- Rotary Hook
- Rotary Rulers
- Round Robin
- Round Robin / Round Robin Swap
- Row Swap
- RR
- RR(S)
- RS
- RSO
- RST
- RSU
- RTFM
- RTW
- Running Stitch
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- SA
- SABLE
- SADD
- SAL
- Sampler Quilt
- Sandpaper Grips
- Sandwich
- SAQM
- SAS
- Sashing
- Sashing Squares
- Satin Stitch
- Scrap Quilt
- Scrim
- Seam
- Seam Allowance
- Seam Ripper
- Selvage
- Seminole Patchwork
- Serged Edge
- Serging
- Servo Motor
- Setting
- Setting Kit
- Setting Square
- Setting the Seam
- Setting Triangle
- 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
- Shadow Applique
- Sharps
- Sheeting
- Shop Hop
- Shopping Under Influence
- Shuttle
- Side Triangles
- Siggies
- Signature Quilt
- Simply Quilts
- Single Needle Top Stitching
- SITD
- SITD / ITD
- SIY
- SKOW
- Slub
- 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
- Stab Stitching
- Stack and Whack
- STASH
- Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
- Stash Enhancing Excursion, Expedition, or Experience
- Stay Stitch
- Steam A Seam / Steam A Stitch
- Steam-A-Seam
- Stencil
- Stenciling
- Step Converter
- Stipple
- Stippling
- Stitch In The Ditch
- Stitch Plate
- Straight Cut Borders
- Straight Grain
- String Block
- String Patchwork
- String Quilt
- Strip Piecing
- SUI
- Sunbonnet Sue
- SWAN
- Swap Without A Name
- Swaps
- Swing
- Synthetic Fibers
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- Tacking
- TAW
- TBQ
- Tear Away (stabilizer)
- Template
- Tension
- Tension Assembly
- TGIF
- THAD
- Thank God It’s Finished
- Thimble
- Thread Acquisition Disorder
- Thread Guides
- TIC
- Tied Quilt
- Timing
- To Be Quilted
- TOAD
- Toenail Grabber / Toenail Hanger
- Tone On Tone
- Top
- Top Stitch
- TOT
- Transverse Shuttle Machine
- Trapunto
- Trashed Object Abandoned In Disgust
- Treadle
- Treadle Belt
- Treadle Pliers
- Trip or event visiting multiple shops
- Triple Irish Chain
- True To Size
- TS
- TTS
- Turnover
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- UFO
- Un-started Object
- Unfinished Object
- USO
- Utilitarian
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- Very Important Project
- Vibrating Shuttle Machine
- VIP
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- Wadding
- Walking Foot
- Wall Hanging
- Warp
- Waste Of Money Batting And Time
- Water Soluble Stabilizer
- Watercolor Quilt
- Weave
- Wedding Quilt
- Weft
- What Was I Thinking
- Wheeler & Wilson 1-4 Bobbin
- WHIM
- WHIMM
- White On White
- Whitework
- Whole Cloth Quilts
- 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
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- YBR
- Yellow Brick Road
- Yo-Yo Quilt
- YOYO
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- Zigzag