Quilters have a unique vocabulary. A lot of acronyms and nicknames are used. People who don't normally hang with quilters will do a double take when we start talking about UFO's, PIGS, FARTs, fat quarters, layer cakes, jelly rolls. By the time we get around to talking about straight quarters or fat eighths, they have already contacted a mental health facility for us. So, here's a short primer on just what the heck all this means.
- BOM = Block of the Month
- DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine
- FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
- FOB = Fear of Binding
- FQ = Fat Quarter
- HIPS = Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward
- HST = Half-Square Triangle
- LAQ= Long Arm Quilter
- LQS = Local Quilt Shop
- MAQ = Mid-Arm Quilter
- PhD = Projects half Done
- PIGS = Projects in Grocery Sacks
- SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
- SEX = Stash Enhancing eXperience
- STASH = Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
- TGIF = Thank God It's Finished
- TOT = Tone-on-Tone
- UFO = UnFinshed Object
- WHIMM = Works Hidden In My Mind
- WIP = Work In Progress
- WISP = Work In Slow Progress
- WOF = Width of Fabric
- WOMBAT = Waste of Money, Batting, and Time
- WOW = White On White
