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Commonly Used Acronyms
Computer - Internet Terms
- LOL
- Laugh Out Loud (also Lot of Love)
- ROFLOL
- Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud
- ROFLMAO
- Rolling On Floor Laughing My @$$ Off
- LMBO
- Laugh My Butt Off
- BRB
- Be Right Back
- TIA
- Thanks In Advance
- TTFN
- Ta Ta For Now
- IMHO
- In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion)
- TTYL
- Talk To You Later
- BTW
- By The Way
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions
- AFAIK
- As Far As I Know
- KIT
- Keep In Touch (this one was used many eons ago in my High School yearbook.)
- SnailMail
- An actual Postal mailing address
- Addy
- Normally an email address, but sometimes refers to your snailmail address
Quilting Specific Terms
- DH
- Dear Husband (Sometimes also Damn or Darn husband)
- DD
- Dear Daughter
- DS
- Dear Son
- MIL
- Mother-In-Law
- SIL
- Usually Sister-in-Law, but could also be Son-in-Law
- FIL
- You guessed it, Father-in-Law
- BF
- Boyfriend, or BestFriend
- QR
- Quilt Related
- LQS
- Local Quilt Store/Shop
- NQR
- Not Quilt Related
- FQ
- Fat Quarter
- BOM
- Block of the Month
- BOB
- Beginner's Only Block (swap)
- Squishie
- Envelopes filled with swap fabric/blocks (squishy is the way they feel)
- Siggies
- Squares of fabric with signatures and often other info written on them. (Often included in swap blocks)
- Charms
- Small pieces of fabric, either squares or sometimes hexagons, all different fabrics. (Charm quilts are usually made up of all squares or hexagons with each fabric being different.)
- Quilt Candy
- Small charm pieces of fabric folded up to look like candy.
- YoYo
- A circle of fabric, with a 1/8" Seam Allowance, turned down, and stitched with a long running stitch, which is then gathered up to form a little puffy circle. This is then usually flattened a bit. Often used for flowers in applique, but an entire quilt can be made from YoYos.
- TOT
- Tone On Tone (A print that has a background color and an allover print of the same color but a different hue/shade)
- WOF
- Width Of Fabric = That is, the width of the fabric from one selvage to another, usually between 40-45" for quilter's fabric.
- WOW
- White On White (Same as TOT but all Whites)
- HST
- Half Square Triangle (one square from the outcome when you take two equal sized squares, draw a diagonal line on wrong side of one, put them right sides together, and sew 1/4" away from diagonal line on both sides, then cut on diagonal line.)
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