• BOB = Beginner’s Only Block (swap)
  • BOM = Block of the Month
  • DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine
  • DWR = Double Wedding Ring
  • FART = Fabric Aquisition Road Trip
  • FIU = Finish It Up
  • FQ = Fat Quarter
  • HST = Half-Square Triangle
  • HSY = Haven’t Started Yet
  • LAQ= Long Arm Quilter
  • LQS = Local Quilt Shop
  • MAQ = Mid-Arm Quilter
  • OBW = One-Block Wonder
  • PHD = Project Half Done
  • PIGS = Projects in Grocery Sacks
  • SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
  • SEX = Stash Enhancing eXperience (or eXcursion)
  • 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
  • WIVSP = Work In Very Slow Progress
  • WIWMI = Wish It Would Make Itself
  • WOF = Width of Fabric
  • WOMBAT = Waste of Money, Batting, and Time
  • WOW = White On White
  • WWIT = What Was I Thinking

Thanks to The Quilting Cat for permission to republish.

Quilters’ Acronyms

8 thoughts on “Quilters’ Acronyms

  • April 20, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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    LOLOL I LIKE these ones .. not quite your traditional acronyms .. sweet!

    Thanx for sharing these Mich and Quilting Cat for permission to repost :D

    hugs

    grace

    grace’s last blog post..April Wordle

  • April 24, 2009 at 12:43 am
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    my cousin gave me another one simililar to HSY…

    WILTS — what I’d Like To Start.

    peggyann’s last blog post..Spring’s here

  • April 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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    These are great! This one will be my “slogan” for a short time: FIU (finish it up).

  • May 13, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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    Great, thanks a lot. It helps to read some blogs better. Birgit

  • August 11, 2010 at 10:22 am
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    PMSing preparing material for strip piecing

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