Flimsy?
#41
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 44
AlvaStitcher ... You're welcome and glad you feel it will help you. I was so lost at times when I first came to the QB and trying to work my way thru the alphabet soup maze. That's why I put it together in the first place and even now, I still have to go back and check some of those "daffy-nitions" at times.
#42
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Grants Pass, OR
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It is my understanding that a "flimsy" was a quilt that had a top and a backing but no batting. More used like a summer quilt. Some are "quilted." Or a design is sewn on it for lack of a better word to use than quilted.
#44
I understand QuiltE's definition of a flimsie and can agree with it in the literal sense, but I have to confess that my first thought was of the thin, crinkly, "onion-skin" paper used with carbon paper when we had multiple copies of documents typed (oh, the hours spent erasing errors on each one!). In the law firm in which I worked back then, the copies were called flimsies. Typed, you say ... erased, you ask .... ohhhhh, you must mean keyboarding and hitting the delete key, of course! :-)
#45
I am glad someone asked the question, I had no idea either. I think it is really neat that the QB is global and we learn different terms for things. Well gotta go dial my phone and grab something from the ice box.
#46
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
Posts: 4,474
Sometimes it does feel like we have a different language.
"Flimsy" to me makes sense. I know for us Americans, the word "flimsy" seems funny, even derogatory. But I think it rhymes with whimsy and it makes me think that a quilt top is light-hearted and cheery--so I don't mind "flimsy". But wadding to me--it makes me think of the batting that is all wadded/matted up in a corner as it all came apart in the wash. So apparently wadding has a bit different meaning in the UK. So when I read "flimsy", it makes me smile, but when I read "wadding" it makes me cringe, and I try to get over my inflexible feelings about it and educate myself and tell myself that it's okay--it's not derogatory--it's just different.
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