Patterns
A quilt made with special memorabilia, such as photographs (transferred to fabric), t-shirts, scraps of materials that were meaningful to the recipient.
What is a Memory quilt?
This style of scrap quilting is the sewing together of multiple fabric strips.
What is string quilting?
A quilting term used to describe the method of stitching along existing seams in a quilt top in order to quilt it together with the batting and backing.
What is Stitch-in-the-Ditch?
QST
What is a Quarter-Square Triangle?
Protective covering for your finger used during hand piecing, quilting or applique.
What is a Thimble?
A quilt made from left over fabric . Utilizes a great variety of fabrics.
What is a Scrap/Scrappy quilt?
A four-patch block with a square in the middle named after a piece of men's clothing.
What is a Bow Tie block?
A process requiring a quilting, darning or hopper foot, moving all directions.
What is Free Motion Quilting?
TGIF
What is Thank God It's Finished!
A shape or design that is placed on fabric and used as a pattern to trace or cut around.
What is a Template?
A unique type of patchwork that reached the height of its popularity in the Victorian era (late 1800s). Irregularly shaped scraps of silks and velvets are pieced together, then lavishly embroidered. These quilts only seem to be the work of lunatics.
What is a Crazy quilt?
It’s bad luck if your wedding quilts does not contain these.
What is Wedding Rings or Circles?
A layout of a block that is placed at a 45 degree angle, diagonally, on the quilt top.
What is On Point?
RST
What are Right Sides Together?
A quilter's best friend
What is a seam ripper?
When interlocking shapes are arranged to cover an area without any gaps or overlaps, creating a repeated tile pattern.
What is a Tessellated pattern?
This block commemorates the founding of New Orleans in 1718
What is the Lemoyne Star?
A technique where fabric shapes are cut specifically to highlight a shape or part of the fabric
What is Fussy Cutting?
FPP
What is Foundation Paper Piecing?
Known as the perfect portable.
What is the Singer Featherweight?
A quilt made by choosing a central motif and building out from it in concentric framing strips that may be fancy pieced work, applique, or plain cloth. This quilt type was popular through the 1800's
What is a Medallion quilt?
A fairly simple block sliced into sections and rearranged into to a new block.
What is a Disappearing Block?
A technique where quilting is done around an outline of an applique piece on a quilt top or around a design or pattern. Then the quilting repeated again and again around the previously stitched line.
What is Echo Quilting?
FART
What is Fabric Acquisition Road Trip?
When the blade on scissors is 6" or more in length they're referred to as this.
What are Shears?