Do you know you UFO’s from your WIP’s? Quilters have acronyms for everything!

BC = bias cut

BOB = Beginner’s Only Block (swap)

BOM = Block of the Month

DF = double fold

DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine

DWR = Double Wedding Ring

FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

FIU = Finish It Up

FOB = Fear of Binding

FQ = Fat Quarter

HIPS = Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward

HST = Half-Square Triangle

HSY = Haven’t Started Yet

LAQ= Long Arm Quilter

LOF = length of fabric

LQS = Local Quilt Shop

MAQ = Mid-Arm Quilter

OBW = One-Block Wonder

PhD = Projects half Done

PIGS = Projects in Grocery Sacks

RST = right sides together

SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy

SEX = Stash Enhancing Experience (or Excursion)

SF = single fold

SOG = straight of grain

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

WST = wrong sides together

WWIT = What Was I Thinking