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Here are some useful (and funny!) quilting abbreviations!
Have you ever seen an acronym used on a quilting page or blog? They can be really useful and sometimes just entertaining! As quilters, we have our own slang – read below for a few you may know already, and a few which will make you chuckle. 🙂
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My favourite is probably STABLE – Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy!
I wouldn’t know anything about that though, would you?
Another great one is FART (yes, FART!) which stands for Fabric Acquisition Road Trip! 🙂
Here are some more useful ones, and then extra silly ones further down the article too. 🙂
BOM:Â Block of the Month
BSK:Â Basic Sewing Kit
DSM:Â Domestic Sewing Machine
EPP:Â English Paper Piecing
FMQ:Â Free Motion Quilting
FPP: Foundation Paper Piecing
4P: Four Patch
9P: Nine Patch
FQ:Â Fat Quarter
LC: Layer Cake
JR: Jelly Roll
F8: Fat Eighth
HB: Honey Bun
CP: Charm Pack (or Charm Squares)
B2B: Border to Border
ITH: In the Hoop
CQ: Crazy Quilt
FG: Flying Geese
FW:Â Featherweight
FS: Forgotten Stash
HST:Â Half-Square Triangle
LAQ: Long Arm Quilting
LQS:Â Local Quilt Shop
PhD:Â Projects Half Done
QAL:Â Quilt Along
QAYG:Â Quilt As You Go
QST:Â Quarter-Square Triangle
RR: Round Robin
RST:Â Right Sides Together
PFD: Prepared for Dyeing
SA:Â Seam Allowance
SID:Â Stitch in Ditch
SPI: Stitches Per Inch
SNW: Stack N’ Whack
SOG:Â Straight of Grain
OBW: One Block Wonder
TOT: Tone on Tone
OOP: Out of Print
TBQ:Â To Be Quilted
UFO:Â Unfinished Object
QOV: Quilt of Valor
WIP:Â Work in Progress
WOF:Â Width of Fabric
WST:Â Wrong Sides Together
Now for some of the funnier, and less technical ones. 🙂
BDNQ:Â Bad Day, Not Quilting
FART:Â Fabric Accumulation Road Trip
FOB:Â Fear of Binding
HIPS:Â Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward
PIGS: Projects in Grocery Sacks
HSY:Â Haven’t Started Yet
PIGS:Â Projects in Grocery Sacks
SQUID:Â Sewing a Quilt Until I Die
DQ:Â Dragon Quilt (Dragged many places, hasn’t been finished yet!)
STABLE: Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
TGIF:Â Thank God It’s Finished
WOMBAT:Â Waste of Money, Batting, and Time
FROG STITCHING:Â Ripping Out Seams (Rip It, Rip It, Rip It!)
 WIWMI: Wish It Would Make Itself
QIMM: Quilts In My Mind
BONUS: Funny Quilting & Sewing Memes!
Here are some of our favourite quilting and sewing memes that make us chuckle. If you want a laugh, check them out below. 🙂Â
BONUS: FUNNY QUILTING QUOTES!
The Rules of Quilting
1. Don’t bleed on the quilt.
2. Measure Twice, Cut Once.
3. It’s not a mistake. It’s a creative opportunity.
4. There are NO quilt police.
5. Rules? There are rules?
You Know You’re a Quilter When…
1. Your ironing board is always set up, but you NEVER iron clothes.
2. When the only scraps under your dining room table are fabric.
3. People know to avoid you when they see you with a seam ripper.
4. You don’t need to get organized, you just need a bigger sewing room.
5. Sewing fills your day! And your living room, bedroom, dining room, closets…
6. You quilt, eat and sleep. In that order.
7. You wish your supermarket had a fabric department.
8. Fabric purchasing and quilting are two different hobbies.
9. If someone walks a mile in your shoes, they’ll probably end up at a fabric store.
10. You know a fat quarter isn’t a body part.
11. You realize that DONE is better than PERFECT.
12. You have a retirement plan. It’s called… more quilting!
13. You like to party. If by party, you mean stay home and quilt.Â
Have you used any of these? Have any more that you’d love to share? Let us know! Happy stitching 🙂 Â
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Brassens
