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Middle school sewing class: According to the teacher. Material is what you start with, your basic form of any construction, a dress, skirt or blouse. In this case a quilt. I will need various forms of material, fabric, batting, and thread. I use the term fabric.
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My husband calls it material too. Drives me nuts!
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Jim sometimes calls my Fiskars a pizza cutter. I let him, because honestly, I have done that too, in jest.
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I remember in the pilot episode of NCIS that a reference is made to "crocheting" one of the rules on a pillow. Every time I watch that episode I get ready to shout "embroider" at the tv though sometimes I shout "cross stitch" to give some variety.
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A friend made a very intricate little quilt as a commemoration of a wedding--names, dates, etc.--and got a note back--Thanks for the potholder!
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I cringe when I show or give a quilt and someone says "Oh you made this? How quaint"
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Originally Posted by Onebyone
(Post 7975661)
Mine is when someone says material instead of fabric. I don't correct them but I say ugh to myself.
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I have heard it called both, but I use fabric because it is shorter and more specific. Material is more general, the first definition is "the matter from which a thing is or can be made.".
Now how about the difference between material and materiel? |
Originally Posted by mom-6
(Post 7975731)
Some of us grew up calling it material so it tends to come out at unexpected moments.
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Does anyone call it “cloth”?
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Heard this from a guy standing in front of a rack of magazines at the airport: "Why all these magazines about quilts? Nobody makes them anymore!" Oh, my!
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Grew up with an extremely talented seamstress mother who always used "material" for our "outfits". Never " fabric" for our "garments". Guess I'm nostalgic too. I also smile at "sewist" but prefer that to "sewer" because it could be confused with a plumbing term!
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I am befuddled when people say "Muslim" for muslin and "taunt" for taut. My first quilting teacher did this. She was wonderful and I learned a lot from her. But she used those words!!
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I was watching a very famous quilter on Youtube the other day and she said "Never use can-ed air" when cleaning your machine. I thought I heard her wrong but she said it twice! I never heard anyone say that!!!
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A funny little quirk I see is most of the writing on quilting assume the reader is female
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My history (in Western Canada) is the same as KenmoreGal2's. Three years of Home Ec and you cut your "material" to make your dress. Was there a geographical difference in terminology that has now spread and taken over with computer usage? Is "material" now considered a bad word?
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I think the word fabric just evolved. When I learned how to sew they called it material.
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I just found this thread, and I gotta say...
WOW! there sure seems to be a LOT of quilt police, er...quirks in our little quilting/blanket/material world. *giggle* :) |
Originally Posted by Chester the bunny
(Post 7975043)
Why do we cut big pieces of fabric into little pieces of fabric only to sew them together to make a large piece of fabric.......
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My mom always called it material and I did too when I was learning to sew. But that was 30 years ago and we also called the couch a ‘davenport.’
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Originally Posted by maryjane
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It's a minor cringe really but my inner spell checker wants to scream when someone puts "boarders" on their quilt. I always picture the guy you rent a room to climbing onto your quilt center. Now if you want to create a "border" for your quilt to separate it from other segments or the edge I'm fine with that.
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Originally Posted by rosiewell
(Post 7976419)
when someone says "oh you sew? can you fix my dress? or make curtains or.....
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