I used the tip to use a letter holder for my quilting rulers. It works so much better than the wooden thing with the grooves in it.

thanks!

Wonderful! That's all I can say about that.

the hopscotch quilt. I would like to thank the lady who helped me get it to line up it turned out well. Thank you so much. Laura C.

A big thank you for helping us out. It is appreciated. :D

thank you very much. This is soooooo helpful!

You are so awesome for taking the time to do this for all of us.

I have found a bunch of old patterns my great grandmother clipped out of news papers. some of the dates ranged from 1937 to 1945. are these of any interest to anyone! what would be the best way for me to catalog them. any Ideas!! karen ruch dayton ohio

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You find the link to the actual tips page containing just tips in the very first post of this thread:

So actually it's only fair that ChubbyBunny receives such a lot of thank yous for all the work put into this.

Additional Acronyms:


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Judie Bellingham
BellaOnline's Quilting Editor



Quilt Acronyms

An Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of other words (e.g., radar, laser).

The language of quilters is quite interesting. Quilters have embraced the use of acronyms in a simply fabulous way, but the language can be somewhat confusing for non-quilters – like husbands and partners.

The first time I mentioned a fat quarter to my husband he said “darling don’t talk about your body like that, I like cuddly”. Hmmmm. Ever told a non quilter that you quilt in the ditch? They give you this sort of funny look and you can see they’re thinking – she did what in the ditch?

Acronyms fly thick and fast in the vocabulary of a quilter and I’ve taken on the task of describing to the uninitiated, what some of those funny sounding acronyms really mean. This is just a smattering of acronyms (say that fast) that I have come up with. There’s a lot more out there in webland – just Google Quilt Acronyms and be surprised!

I’ll start with the well known ones, that are simply WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get!).

FQ Fat Quarter (quilt fabric usually measuring approximately .5 yard by .5 yard)

SID Sitching in the Ditch (quilting right on the seam line)

UFO Unfinished Object. I sometimes wish my UFO’s would be taken by Martians, never to be seen again!

WIP means work in progress and I’m guessing that we all have a lot of that.


The above acronmys are the simple acronyms that most quilters use regularly. Now I’m going to take you on a journey of discovery of acronyms that are used by the wider quilting community, and they are very clever, I think.

HSY Haven’t Started Yet

PHD Project Half Done (does that makes my title, Judie Bellingham PHD.)

MGBTQ Must Get Back To Quilting

WIVSP Work in Very Slow Progress

TOAD Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust

USO Unstarted Object

STASH Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden

SABLE Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy

FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip ( I do that all the time!!)

TGIF Thank God It’s Friday is the usual acronym but quilters like Thank God It’s Finished.

WIWMI Wish It Would Make Itself

WWIT What Was I Thinking?

And finally WOMBAT Wast of Material, Batting and Time (This one is close to my Oz Heart!!).

As I said that’s just a small sample of the quilting acronyms out there.
So I’ll say cheerio for now as I need to plan a FART and MGBTQ .


Found this while I was looking at other quilting sites. Most of them we already know, but there are some new ones as well.

Can anyone tell me what makes a good scrap quilt?

This is not technically a tip, but I noticed my rotary cutter was not cutting clean straight lines. I knew I had just put a new blade in, but I took it apart and found out that I had two blades in! Duh!

I would appreciate your tips. New to quilting and the quilting board. Need lots of advice. Thank you in advance.

Thank you so, so, soooo much for the acronym dictionary! I am a newbie quilter and have spent a LOT of time on this site and am learning so much from all the wonderful users. However, I have been stymied a few times with the lingo, and this is REALLY going to save me! Awesome job! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Chubby Bunny, can you add these to your tip sheet please????

:?: :?:

The acronyms are 2 2 cute. Thanks loads.

To clean my carpets from threads which is 2 222much, after vacuming I use masking tape to colect them two 60 cm of them make your carpet new ;)

wonderful idea!! 8-)

Thanks a million ChubbyBunny. I've never seen so much good advice and common sense in one place before!

Hugs
Marion
UK

I actually give a program to local quilt guilds that includes a section on tips and tricks, but life changes, tips improve and it's always good to learn from others. Thanks so much for helping me stay current in this busy world.

Excellent tips!
Good quality info!

I have a tip and am unsure where to post it so I am sending it to you and maybe you can forward it to the correct place and post where we should send them.

My tip is:

When I discard a used rotary cutting blade I first wrap it in masking tape so no one accidentaly get cut with it.

Chubby Bunny I lost the page where you did the original tips post. Please send me a pm as to how I can find it, I feel so stupid.

Thanks

Thanks for the wonderful "Tips" site. You (whomever you are) do such an outstanding job passing on knowledge and information.

Thank you so much Ms CubbyBunny. You Rock!

This has been so helpful! Thanks!

This is great idea! Thanks for putting it out there!!

Fairly new to QB so this was a great help. I have a question on a couple of acro's I've seen. DH when a lady is mentioning her husband, so I take the H is for husband - but does the D stand for. Also, DD? Again, I take it one of the Ds is for daughter, but what about the other? I thought the first D is dear or darling on the daughter one, but I don't want to guess the D before husband. Thanks for hearing me out.

Sew Freak for Acronyms & Terms go to
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-84708-1htm or

http://www.quiltingboard.com/user_page.jsp?upnum=3335
for this one go down close to the bottom of the page

Total newbie here BUT on the rulers tips, I'm unsure about the hot glue tip...I don't have any of the spray adhesive that was mentioned but I am having trouble with my ruler slipping....So I put the hot glue on the side of the ruler that touches the fabric? One at the top and bottom or what??

dear husband and dear daughter. i'm not to good at a lot of the abbreviations but i got those. lol

What a lovely thing for you to do! Thank you.

love it

Wonderful idea. Thanks.

I am brand new to this forum and I think this is absolutely wonderful to have all the tips together. Thanks for making life easier for all of us. Odette

can someone pm me how to post a question . I would like a pattern for the 10 minute block. thanks

All tps are welcome by me trail and error of doing things can be really irritating.Love the short cut and tips to stay away from all the iritating situtations.

I went to YouTube.com I searched for the ten minute block and found several videos. It was really helpful. Enjoy.. :D

I started this tip about a year ago. I take time after cutting out projects to cut the scraps into usable shaped up pieces. I trim them to the largest size possible. If there are small pieces, I tend to cut them into 2", 3.5" and 5" squares and store them in labelled boxes. You'd be surprised how much bulk is reduced from my fabric bins, just by trimming. I do this with batting also.