You are correct with seam allowances!

https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/smile.pnghttps://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.pnghttps://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/wink.png Love hearing the stories! Sometimes I say that I have a quilted brain! https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...s/rolleyes.png

I once told a non quilting friend, "I need a fat quarter." She replied, " I have lots of change. "https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/boy.gif

yep! The lingo is all part and parcel.

Oh...that's cute!

~ C

You check QB while sipping morning coffee!

Tell your fiance to stop messing up his jeans any more than they already are because you have a denim quilt in your head and if he rips his jeans anymore, you're going to lose fabric.

2 + 2 = 3.5 So clever.

When the best answer to most of the conversations others ask leads to, "I am a quilter" is appropriate. Want to go to the movies? No, I am quilter and have to finish a quilt I am working on. Have you found a gift yet for her birthday? No, I am making a quilt she will love. What have you been doing lately? Working on a quilt top for so and so. Obsession is the word I would use. Fabric, thread and patterns are my favorite purchases.

When speaking to a friend (non-quilter yes they actually exist) and happened to say I was struggling with triangles and windowpaning, she thought it was some strange menage a trois relationship.

When you take a suitcase of quilting supplies on the airplane, and tell the assistant . to lose it, as it is very important