Abbreviations

Commonly Used Acronyms

Computer - Internet Terms

LOL

Laugh Out Loud (also Lot of Love)

ROFLOL

Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud

ROFLMAO

Rolling On Floor Laughing My @$$ Off

LMBO

Laugh My Butt Off

BRB

Be Right Back

TIA

Thanks In Advance

TTFN

Ta Ta For Now

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion)

TTYL

Talk To You Later

BTW

By The Way

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

AFAIK

As Far As I Know

KIT

Keep In Touch (this one was used many eons ago in my High School yearbook.)

SnailMail

An actual Postal mailing address

Addy

Normally an email address, but sometimes refers to your snailmail address

Quilting Specific Terms

DH

Dear Husband (Sometimes also Damn or Darn husband)

DD

Dear Daughter

DS

Dear Son

MIL

Mother-In-Law

SIL

Usually Sister-in-Law, but could also be Son-in-Law

FIL

You guessed it, Father-in-Law

BF

Boyfriend, or BestFriend

QR

Quilt Related

LQS

Local Quilt Store/Shop

NQR

Not Quilt Related

FQ

Fat Quarter

BOM

Block of the Month

BOB

Beginner's Only Block (swap)

Squishie

Envelopes filled with swap fabric/blocks (squishy is the way they feel)

Siggies

Squares of fabric with signatures and often other info written on them. (Often included in swap blocks)

Charms

Small pieces of fabric, either squares or sometimes hexagons, all different fabrics. (Charm quilts are usually made up of all squares or hexagons with each fabric being different.)

Quilt Candy

Small charm pieces of fabric folded up to look like candy.

YoYo

A circle of fabric, with a 1/8" Seam Allowance, turned down, and stitched with a long running stitch, which is then gathered up to form a little puffy circle. This is then usually flattened a bit. Often used for flowers in applique, but an entire quilt can be made from YoYos.

TOT

Tone On Tone (A print that has a background color and an allover print of the same color but a different hue/shade)

WOF

Width Of Fabric = That is, the width of the fabric from one selvage to another, usually between 40-45" for quilter's fabric.

WOW

White On White (Same as TOT but all Whites)

HST

Half Square Triangle (one square from the outcome when you take two equal sized squares, draw a diagonal line on wrong side of one, put them right sides together, and sew 1/4" away from diagonal line on both sides, then cut on diagonal line.)