Originally Posted by Sadiemae
I think it should be this way, but there a lot of people that lump them together as freehand/free motion.
think about when we were in elementary school. What did the teacher call a drawing you did when you were not copying or tracing? In my day it was called a freehand drawing. Same with quilting. I think it always meant that it is just people use the terms fast and loose. Same with mixing meandering and stippling. A meander is that doodle that can run any gammit of sizes. Stippling is a known quilting term that has been around for centuries and it means close densely quilted design where the stitch direction changes every 2 to 3 stitches. Vastly different then a meander but a meander can be so tight and small on a quilt it resembles stippling. I think that is where the terms morphed and blended.