Quilte-forkortelser

På bloggen With Heart and Hands fandt jeg denne liste med forklaringer på, hvad de forskellige forkortelser i “quiltesproget” betyder. Desværre er de på engelsk, men man er velkommen til at indsætte en dansk oversættelse.

Quilting Acronyms

BOB=Beginner’s Only Block

BOM=Block of the Month

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

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

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

Nickles=5″ squares

NQR=Not Quilt Related, as in board or group off topic, topic and it’s oppostie QR

OBW=One-Block Wonder

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Annelise