Quilting Terms Glossary
Can't remember what "bias" is? No problem! This handy quilting terms glossary has all the quilting vocabulary you will ever need to know.
a
- Acrylic Rulers
- Applique
- Asymmetry
b
- Backing
- Bargello
- Basic Sewing Supplies
- Batik
- Batting
- Baumwolle
- Bearding
- Betweens
- Bias
- Binding
- Block
- Block of the Month
- BOM
- Border
- BSS
c
- Calico
- Chain Piecing
- Charm Pack
- Cheater Cloth
- Color Wheel
- Continuous Line Quilting
- Contrast
- Cornerstones
- Crazy Quilt
- Cross wound thread
- Cut Size
- Cutter
- Cutting Mat
d
- Design Wall
- Diamonds
- Directional print
- Domestic Sewing Machine
- DSM
e
- Echo Quilting
- English Paper Piecing
- EPP
- Equilateral Triangle
f
- Fat Eighth
- Fat Quarter
- Finished Size
- Flying Geese
- FMQ
- Four Patch Unit
- Free Motion Quilting
- Friendship Quilt
- Fussy Cutting
g
- Grain of Fabric
- Greige Goods
h
- Half Rectangle Triangle
- Half Square Triangle
- Hexagon
- HRT
- HST
j
- Jelly Roll
k
- Kite
l
- Layer Cake
- Leaders and Enders
- Loft
m
- Matchstick Quilting
- Medallion quilt
- Memory Quilt
- Mirror Image
- Mitered Border
- Muslin
n
- Needle-turn Applique
- Nine Patch
o
- Off Grain
- On point
- Overage
p
- Partial Seams
- Pin Baste
- Piping
- Prairie Points
- Pre-washing
- Precut
- Primary Colors
q
- QST
- Quarter-square Triangle
- Quick Corner Technique
- Quick Corners
- Quilt Block
- Hanging Sleeve
- Quilting
r
- Retayne
- Reverse Applique
- Right Sides Together
- Rotary Cutter
- Row Quilt
- RST
s
- Sampler
- Sashiko
- Sashing
- Sashing Post
- Saturated Color
- Scrap Quilt
- Seam Allowance
- Secondary Colors
- Selvage
- Seminole Quilting
- Setting Triangle
- Shades
- Sharps
- SID
- Square in a Square
- Square-up Ruler
- Stacked thread
- Star Block
- Stipple
- Stitch in the Ditch
- Straight Grain
- Straight Set
- Strip Piecing
- Symmetry
t
- TBQ
- Template
- Tension
- Tertiary Colors
- Tint
- To Be Quilted
- Tones
- Transparency Quilt
- Twirl or pop a seam
- Tying
u
- UFO
- Unfinished Size
v
- Value
w
- Walking Foot
- Wall Quilt
- Warp
- Weft
- Wholecloth Quilt
- Width of Fabric
- Window Framing
- WIP
- WOF
- Work in Progress
- Wrong Sides Together
- WST
y
- Y Seam
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