What do all those letters mean?

[Sandy Navas]

401 F	Fabric for Retirement
401 P	Patterns for Retirement
AK	Ample Knitters
BOM	Block Of the Month
BSS	Basic Sewing Supplies
COC	Cream On Cream
CQ	Crazy Quilting
D4P	Double Four Patch
DIC	Double Irish Chain
Dime	10-inch square piece of fabric
DJ	Dear Jane
DSM	Domestic Sewing Machine
EQ	Electric Quilt
F8	Fat 1/8th piece of fabric (9-inches x 22-inches)
FART	Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
FHS	Free Hand Sewing
FIU	Finish It Up
FLIMSY	Un-quilted top
FM	Free Motion
FN	FrivolousNecessity (pattern maker)
FQ	Fat Quarter of fabric (18-inches x 22-inches)
FW	FeatherWeight (type of sewing machine)
FW	Fusible Web
GFG	Grandmother's Flower Garden
Giterdone	Get 'er Done! (Term most often used for ancient or dreaded projects)

GSOY	Glasgow School Of Yarn
HP	Hand Piecing
HQ	Hand Quilting
HST	Half-Square Triangle
HSY	Haven't Started Yet
Jelly Roll	2 1/2-inch x 42-inch fabric strip (usually rolled up and sold in a set)
LA	Long Armer
LAQ	Long Arm Quilting machine
LC	Layer Cakes (a pile of co-ordinating 10" squares)
LibQ	Liberated Quiltmaking
LQ	Liberated Quiltmaking
LQS	Local Quilt Shop
MAQ	Mid-Arm Quilter
MGBTQ	Must Get Back To Quilting
MQN	Michigan Quilt Network
Nickle	5-inch square of fabric
NQR	Not Quilt Related
OBW	One-Block Wonder
OSMG	Old Sewing Machine Guy
PHD	Project Half Done
PIGS	Projects In Grocery Sacks
PIM	Project In Mind
PIP	Project In Progress
PIT	Project In Tote
PIW	Project In Waiting

PP	Paper Piecing
QCN	Quilters of Color Network of New York
QR	Quilt Related
QST	Quarter Square Triangles
Quilt Candy	Small charm pieces of fabric, folded up to look like candy
QUIMM	Quilt In My Mind
RQQ	Rag Queen Quilters
SABLE	Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
SAQM	Small Arm Quilting Machine
SAS	Steam A Seam
SEX	Stash Enhancing eXcursion
SEX	Stash Enhancing eXpedition
SEX	Stash Enhancing eXperience
SID	Stitch In the Ditch
Siggie	Square of fabric with SIGnatures (and possibly other information) on it
SIY	Sew it Yourself
SnW	Stack 'n Whack
SQ	Simply Quilts
Squishy	Envelope filled with swap fabric or gifts sent or received in the mail
STASH	Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
SUI	Shopping Under the Influence
SWAN	Swap Without A Name
TBQ	To Be Quilted
TGIF	Thank Goodness It's Finished!
TIC	Triple Irish Chain

TOAD	Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust
TOT	Tone-On-Tone
TUFO	Tuesday UnFinished Object night
Turnover	6-inch triangle fabrics in a pack
UFO	UnFinished Object
USO	UnStarted Object
VIP	Very Important Project
WHIM	Work Hidden In Mind
WHIMM	Work Hidden In My Mind
WISP	Work In Slow Progress
WIVSP	Work in Very Slow Progress
WIWMI	Wish It Would Make Itself
WOF	Width Of Fabric
WOMBAT	Waste Of Material, Batting, And Time
WUFO	Wednesday UnFinished Object night

[K. McEuen]

And on this forum COC usually means Circle of Comfort.

[shannonsaulter]

so if I want fart sex its a good thing right...LOL

[ilive2craft2]

one other one that threw me for a loop - WoW for white on white.

Shannon, I like how you think!

[K. McEuen]

so if I want fart sex its a good thing right...LOL

Either that or your iphone is messing with you again.

[auntiemern]

Shannon, you are to funny. lmao

[bhaggerty]

Shannon, I think you are on to something!!! LOL!!

[shannonsaulter]

No I am at work and on a PC ...this time I was just checking to see who was awake

[Shirley]

Thanks Sandy! Love the WIWMI.

[Terri]

And on this forum COC usually means Circle of Comfort.

In our house COC (or CofC) means College of Charleston. That's where our youngest went & graduated from---with honors from their Honors College, I add with all the pride a mother can have!!