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Quilting Abbreviations

Look through 93 acronyms and abbreviations related to Quilting:

PIW — Project In Waiting
PIT — Project In Tote
PIP — Project In Progress
FLIMSY — Un-quilted top
BOM — Block of the Month
TUFO — Tuesday UnFinished Object night
WOF — Width of Fabric
MGBTQ — Must Get Back To Quilting
JELLY ROLL — 2 1/2-inch x 42-inch fabric strip (usually rolled up and sold in a set)
HSY — Haven't Started Yet
UFO — Unfinished Object
GITERDONE — Get 'er Done! (Term most often used for ancient or dreaded projects)
RQQ — Rag Queen Quilters
EQ — Electric Quilt
SUI — Shopping Under the Influence
SQUISHY — Envelope filled with swap fabric or gifts sent or received in the mail
QUILT CANDY — Small charm pieces of fabric, folded up to look like candy
SID — Stitch in the Ditch
401 F — Fabric for Retirement
TURNOVER — 6-inch triangle fabrics in a pack
F8 — Fat 1/8th piece of fabric (9-inches x 22-inches)
SEX — Stash Enhancing eXpedition
SABLE — Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
401 P — Patterns for Retirement
RENUA — Report of Non-University Activities
TAFTA — The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
TOAD — Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust
PIM — Project in Mind
WIWMI — Wish It Would Make Itself
SIGGIE — Square of fabric with SIGnatures (and possibly other information) on it
TOT — Tone-On-Tone
FQ — Fat Quarter of fabric (18-inches x 22-inches)
WUFO — Wednesday UnFinished Object night
SAQM — Small Arm Quilting Machine
DIME — 10-inch square piece of fabric
LC — Layer Cakes (a pile of co-ordinating 10" squares)
DSM — Domestic Sewing Machine
WOMBAT — Waste Of Material, Batting, And Time
SIY — Sew it Yourself
QUIMM — Quilt In My Mind
OSMG — Old Sewing Machine Guy
LQS — Local Quilt Shop
LIBQ — Liberated Quiltmaking
WHIM — Work Hidden In Mind
NICKLE — 5-inch square of fabric
COC — Cream on Cream
NQR — Not Quilt Related
PIGS — Projects in Grocery Sacks
D4P — Double Four Patch
MQN — Michigan Quilt Network