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 Acaquisition 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 by 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 information on them (date, user name)
• SnW = Stach 'n Whack, pile them up and cut them all at once Quilt 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 = Thnak 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