These terms I believe all beginning quilters should know or begin with:
- Fabric Stash: stash of fabric bought with no project in mind. It’s good to keep an assortment on hand!
- Accurate 1/4″ seam: you can accomplish this one with a 1/4″ foot. Comes separately from your machine.
- yard: equals to 36″ length of fabric (some fabrics are 42″-45″ wide)
- fat quarter: measures 18″x22″ of fabric
- fat eighth: measures 11″x18″ of fabric
- free motion quilting (FMQ): quilting all three layers using your sewing machine or longarm; there are so many designs that can be done…practice drawing the design on paper for muscle memory
- regular quarter or 1/4th of a yard: measures 9″ wide x the length of the fabric
- basting: long stitches used to hold fabric layers or seams in place temporarily and usually removed after final sewing
- batting: middle layer of a quilt
- sandwich: (I like hard salami. JK.) Actually there is a term called quilt sandwich meaning 3 layers (top, batting, backing)
- sashing: the fabric that separates the blocks
- bias: the diagonal direction across the surface of a woven fabric at a 45 degree angle to the line of the warp and weft
- binding: covers the raw edges of a quilt
Abbreviations:
- BOM – Block of the Month
- DSM– Domestic Sewing Machine
- FART – Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
- FOB – Fear of Binding
- FQ – Fat Quater
- HIPS – Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward
- HST – Half-Square Triangle
- LAQ or LQ – Longarm Quilter
- LQS – Local Quilt Shop
- MAQ – Mid-Arm Quilter
- PIGS – Projects in Grocery Sacks
- SABLE – Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
- STASH – Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
- TGIF – Thank God It’s Finished
- TOT – Tone on Tone
- WHIMM – Works Hidden in My Mind
- WISP – Work in Slow Progress
- WOF – Width of Fabric
- WOMBAT – Waste of Money, Batting, and Time
- WOW – White on White
- UFO – UnFinished Objects
- WIP – Work In Progress
- PhD – Projects Half Done
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