Hello Quilty Friends!
Happy Thursday to you!
Did you know quilting has its very own language? I am going way beyond quarter inch seams here.
Recently, I’ve been gathering up a long list of Quilting Acronyms and thought I’d share them with you. Some of them are so silly, they will make you laugh.
Before we dive into this crazy list, here’s an update on our Blog Hop last week.
Fast & More Fun Blog Hop Update
First, I want to thank you for hopping along with us. I hope you all had a great time last week for our second Villa Rosa Designs Blog Hop, Fast & More Fun! If you’re new to VRD, I bet you now know why we called the Hop Fast & More Fun.
What was your favorite part of the Hop? Mine was seeing all of the quilts. I couldn’t wait to see each day’s blogs and the quilts — oh my goodness! — the quilts were simply out of this world!
I am sending a great big quilty hug to each of our 28 amazing bloggers —
https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
https://www.homesewnbyus.com
https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
https://www.ctpub.com/blog/
https://needleandfoot.com/
https://www.mmmquilts.com/
https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
https://blog.siysewityourself.com/
https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
https://quiltinggail.com/
http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/
https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
https://scottfortunoff.com/
https://www.cocoaquilts.com/
http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/
https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
https://www.qovf.org/
https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
https://joyfullytracie.com/
https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
https://doyoueq.com/blog/
I hope you hoppers met some new quilty friends and found some new-to-you quilt blogs filled with inspiration. I know I did. Now how will I have time to write this blog when I’m sew busy reading all the others??? LOL!
I am sew in love with all of the quilts featured on the blogs for the Hop — it amazes me how quilters can take the same Villa Rosa Designs Rose Card pattern, add their own spin, and create a OOAK (wanna know what OOK means, keep reading!) really awesome quilt. Cheree at The Morning Latte comes to mind with her delightful scrappy pieced border on her version of the Gypsy pattern. I could literally go on and on about what I learned and saw on the Hop, but instead, let me ask you what you took away from the Hop?
Right now I am working my way through each blog’s winners — please be patient — that’s a lot of folks to contact and get shipping info from.
Let’s do the math (you might remember that I like math — check out my Quilting and Math post from a while back HERE):
28 blogs x 3 sponsor prizes each + 6 VRD quilts = 90 Individual prizes
30 blog posts x 1 set of patterns each = 30 Pattern Set prizes
30 blog posts x 3 Grand Prize entrants each = 90 Grand Prize entrants
So, 120 prizes are being given out and there are 90 entrants into 3 Grand Prize drawings.
Holy Cow! Go big or go home — that’s my motto!
Speaking of prizes, this blog hop would never have happened without the generosity of our lovely sponsors —
https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net
https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx
https://www.hancocks-paducah.com
https://foxchapelpublishing.com
And don’t forget, you can order the Blog Hop Rose Card pattern set HERE if you haven’t gotten your own set yet. Of course, I am still working in notifying winners so maybe you’ll win a set.
While you are all waiting breathlessly to see if you are a Blog Hop winner — let’s dive right into a world of its own — Quilting Lingo!
Quilting Acronyms
Below you’ll find a long list of Quilting Acronyms. How many do you know already?
Who knew there was literally a dictionary of Quilting Acronyms? I guess it makes sense, though, because of text messaging abbreviations and acronyms like LOL, TTYL, and others. So why not Quilting acronyms too?
Read on. I dare you not to laugh — some of them are downright silly and will tickle your funny bone.
BC — Bias Cut
BDNQ — Bad Day, No Quilting
BOB — Beginners Only Block
BOM — Block of the Month
BOW — Block of The Week
BSK — Basic Sewing Kit
BSS — Basics Sewing Supplies
COC — Cream on Cream
DF — Double Fold
DSM — Domestic Sewing Machine
EPP — English Paper Piecing
FART — Fabric Acquisition Road Trip (One of my fav things to do! Tehehe….)
FE — Fat Eighth
FFO — Finally Finished Object
F-ing G’s — Flying Geese ( this one is for Gaynel and the rest of the Friday Quilt Crew!)
FMQ — Free Motion Quilting
FOB — Fear of Binding
FPP — Foundation Paper Piecing
FQ — Fat Quarter
FS — Forgotten Stash
FW — Featherweight (sewing machine)
GTG — Get ToGether
HSY — Haven’t Started Yet
HIPS — Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward. (Very true!)
HST — Half Square Triangle
HSY — Haven’t Started Yet
HQ — Hand Quilted/ing
LA — Long Armer. (Donna O!)
LAQ — Long Arm Quilter/Quilting
LOF — Length Of Fabric
LQS — Local Quilt Shop. (What would we do without our LQSs?)
MAQ — Mid Arm Machine
MGBTQ — Must Get Back to Quilting. (Yeah……every day)
NESTY — Not Even Started Yet
NQR — Not Quilt Related
NTBB — Needs To Be Bound
OOAK — One Of A Kind
OBW — One Block Wonder
OOP — Out of Print
PFC — Professional Fabric Collector
PhD — Projects Half Done
PIGS — Projects in Grocery Sacks
PIP — Project In Process
PIPS — Projects In Pretty Sacks
PIZB — Project In Ziplock Bag
PNTBF — Project Needs To Be Finished
PP — Paper Piecing
PFD — Prepared for Dyeing
PPO — Project Put Off
QAL — Quilt Along
QAYG — Quilt As You Go
QB — Quilting Board (flannel or felt board, I think….)
QMWL — Quilt More, Work Less
QR — Quilt Related
QST — Quarter Square Triangle
QTFDD — Quilt Top Finishing Deficit Disorder
RR — Round Robin
RST — Right Sides Together
SA — Seam Allowance
SABLE — Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy. Yup, that’s me!)
SF — Single Fold
SAQM — Small Arm Quilting Machine
SAS — Steam A Seam
SEX — Stash Enhancing Experience
SID — Stitch in the Ditch
SnW — Stack and Whack
SQUID — Sewing a Quilt Until I Die
SQUIDS — Some Quilts in DrawerS
SOG — Straight of Grain
STASH — Special Treasures All Hidden Secretly
TBQ — To Be Quilted
TGIF — Thank Goodness It’s Finished!
TIH — There is Hope
TOAD — Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust. (We all have them!)
TOT — Tone on Tone
UFO — Unfinished Object
USO — UnStarted Project
VIP — Very Important Project
WHIMM — Works Hidden In My Mind
WIP — Work in Progress
WISP — Work In Slow Progress
WITHWIT — What In The Heck Was I Thinking?
WIWMI — Wish It Would Make Itself
WOA — Work Of Art
WOF — Width of Fabric
WOMBAT — Waste of Money and Time
WOW — White on White
WST — Wrong Sides Together
WTF — Where’s the Fabric?
WWIT — What Was I Thinking?
YD — Yard/Yardage
Whew! That’s a lot of Acronyms — it’s almost a dictionary. As many as there are on my list, I know that I missed some. Please feel free to comment with any that I missed. Maybe someone needs to write a Quilting Dictionary? Hmmmmmmmm. I’ll add it to the list. At the rate I’m going, I might get to start it as a project in the year 3078.
Well, that’s it for me, I need to get back to organizing and contacting all the Blog Hop winners so we can get all these quilty goodies sent out to their forever homes. Maybe even yours……
See you next Thursday, right here at Villa Rosa Quilts!
Until then —
Sew. Laugh. Repeat.
Always,
Tricia @VRD
Villa Rosa Quilts 
I am so glad I was not the only one laughing!
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You were definitely in very good company. 🙂
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Thanks Tricia for all the work behind scenes with the Blog Hop. Really enjoy finding new to me blogs and all the creative ideas from the stitchers!!
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It was an awesome blog hop!
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Lol, loved this post. I have done a FART or two with my sidekick.
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Hmmmmm. Wonder who that lucky person is??? Would it be MOI???
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Thanks for organizing the hop. It was a joy to participate and thank you also for today’s shout-out! I had fun playing with the Gypsy pattern! Learned a lot of new acronyms, btw!
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It was a lot of fun AND I loved meeting a bunch of new quilt blogger pals!
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Great Blog…keeping my fingers crossed that I won something from the blog, and so much fun too, Thank You Tricia💜
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Glad you enjoyed the post, Kim. Hope you (and everyone else — I have to say that, you know) win!
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The blog hop was wonderful! Thank you for organizing it!
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Nikki, glad you had fun! I really enjoyed it too.
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I really liked the blog hop! As a newbie, I learned quite a few things (especially because I didn’t even KNOW there were quilt blogs!) Thanks for doing all that acronym work. There have a been a few I’ve come across that I didn’t know.
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Sashabear, Welcome to the wonderful and sometimes wacky world of quilting! Glad you had fun on the hop.
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LOL I learned some new acronyms! 😀 Good luck with the winners, I can’t imagine going through that staggering number. Thanks again for all your work – it was fun!
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Thanks Texasquiltgal, slowly but surely I’m getting everything wrapped up. Just a couple more addresses to collect….
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I enjoyed to blog hop so much – especially seeing how all those beautiful quilts were done! So many ideas – so little time!
Thank you to all for your hard work in getting this hop together. I cant imagine all that work!
Love the acronyms – so funny!
Blessings
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Hi Donna, glad you had fun on the hop! And the best part??? You can hop til you drop in your jammies!
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I had so much fun on the Blog hop too. My favorite part was seeing how each quilter was able to use the same pattern but with different fabrics! Oh my gosh! Now I finally know what some of those acronyms are! I am going to take those to my next quilt guild meeting!
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Hey Ginger, it really was a fun hop, wasn’t it??? And the acronyms, some of them seriously had me giggling.
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