Patterns
Irregularly shaped scraps of silks and velvets are pieced together, then lavishly embroidered.
Popular in the Victorian era (late 1800's)
What is a Crazy quilt
A fabric grain that falls between the straight and the cross grain.
What is the Bias
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
BOM. You get these directions a piece at a time.
What is Block Of the Month
Fabric that is already cut into 2 ½ inch strips and wound into a roll. Used for strip piecing and other various patterns, cut from each fabric in a specific fabric line.
What is a Jelly Roll
Simple monochromatic embroidery in each block.
Patterns for individual quilt blocks were sold for a penny in the USA, making them popular and affordable in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is Redwork Quilt
A shape or design that is placed on fabric and used as a pattern to trace or cut around.
What is a Template
A process requiring a quilting, darning or hopper foot and dropping your feed dogs so you can move fabric freely in all directions.
What is Free Motion Quilting
WOF
What is Width of fabric
A variety of a fabric line cut into 5 ½- 6″ squares
What is a Charm Pack
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
Cutting tool for quilting invented in 1979 by Mr Yoshio Okada.
What is the Rotary Cutter
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 line is repeated again and again around the previously stitched line.
What is Echo Quilting
HST. You can use pre-printed paper to guide you or just draw a line across your square.
What is a Half-Square Triangle
A quarter yard of fabric that is cut in half at the fold. Measures 9″x22.” It produces a “fatter” square piece of fabric, providing more options for use.
What is a Fat Eighth
A quilt made from left over fabric or from your stash. Utilizes a great variety of fabrics, each block often being pieced from a different combination of materials.
What is a Scrap (Scrappy) quilt
Protective covering for your finger used during hand piecing, quilting or applique.
What is a Thimble
A technique where fabric shapes are cut and sewn onto a fabric block or quilt top.
Needle turned, Raw edge, machine are examples.
What is Applique
A term used to refer to an unfinished object or project.
What is UFO
A half yard of fabric that is cut in half at the fold. Measures 18″x22.” It produces a “fatter” square piece of fabric, providing more options for use.
What is a Fat Quarter
A quilt made from materials that celebrate a meaningful event or person to the recipient.
What is a Memory quilt
In 1985 Randy and Peggy Schafer created an acrylic tool that featured superimposed lines which are easy to see on both light and dark fabric
What is the Omnigrid Ruler
A block that is placed at a 45 degree angle, diagonally, on the quilt top.
What is On Point
TGIF. This might be something you started 20 years ago or just tired of doing.
What is Thank Goodness It's Finished!
A collection of 10 inch squares of fabric from a single fabric line, typically with 42 pieces in a package
What is Layer Cakes