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.

My husband calls it material too. Drives me nuts!

Jim sometimes calls my Fiskars a pizza cutter. I let him, because honestly, I have done that too, in jest.

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.

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!

I cringe when I show or give a quilt and someone says "Oh you made this? How quaint"

I'm from Texas and getting on up there in years. When I was a child, everyone called it "material". It gives me a nostalgic feeling when I hear it.

bkay

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?

yep. it was material during home ec back in the sixties.

Does anyone call it “cloth”?