Flimsy?
02-28-2014, 06:49 AM
#21
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I understand why some one calls it 'flimsy' but why not just call it a 'quilt top' as that is what it really is. Why do we need to come up with all of these terms that NO one understands except the people that came up with them.
02-28-2014, 08:49 AM
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I don't like the term "flimsy" because is has derogatory connotations-- as in something cheap, inferior and prone to falling apart quickly. A well made quilt top is anything but flimsy. I hope this silly term for a quilt top goes by the wayside... and soon.
02-28-2014, 08:55 AM
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A flimsy is an unquilted quilt top. Termed as such because compared to the completed, layered, quilted quilt the top is quite flimsy in comparison.
Edited to add that by dictionary terms it is quite fitting. Until the top is quilted it can't be used so hence "ineffective". Washing an unquilted top is flirting with disaster, you may take a tangled mess of strips and threads out of your washer so it is ill advised, hence the definition of weak, without material strength is also quite appropriate. Also think of how flexible an unquilted top is. It really is quite flimsy in structure like a thin kind of paper.
I think the term flimsy is quite applicable for an unfinished top. It is not meant in a derogatory sense but in the literal.
Edited to add that by dictionary terms it is quite fitting. Until the top is quilted it can't be used so hence "ineffective". Washing an unquilted top is flirting with disaster, you may take a tangled mess of strips and threads out of your washer so it is ill advised, hence the definition of weak, without material strength is also quite appropriate. Also think of how flexible an unquilted top is. It really is quite flimsy in structure like a thin kind of paper.
I think the term flimsy is quite applicable for an unfinished top. It is not meant in a derogatory sense but in the literal.
02-28-2014, 09:03 AM
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what a fun post. Love hearing everyone's alternate words and acronyms. When I was growing up we used the word annie-woggle to indicate a diagonal direction. Not in terms of quilting, but in terms of direction, i.e., I'll annie-woggle across the street to the drugstore.
02-28-2014, 09:12 AM
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Since the quilters that use the terms 'flimsy' and 'wadding' (i.e. across the Pond/Canada) have probably been using that word a lot longer than those of us in the USA I wonder why/when "we" started started using quilt top/batting?
02-28-2014, 10:53 AM
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A flimsy is an unquilted quilt top. Termed as such because compared to the completed, layered, quilted quilt the top is quite flimsy in comparison.
Edited to add that by dictionary terms it is quite fitting. Until the top is quilted it can't be used so hence "ineffective". Washing an unquilted top is flirting with disaster, you may take a tangled mess of strips and threads out of your washer so it is ill advised, hence the definition of weak, without material strength is also quite appropriate. Also think of how flexible an unquilted top is. It really is quite flimsy in structure like a thin kind of paper.
I think the term flimsy is quite applicable for an unfinished top. It is not meant in a derogatory sense but in the literal.
Edited to add that by dictionary terms it is quite fitting. Until the top is quilted it can't be used so hence "ineffective". Washing an unquilted top is flirting with disaster, you may take a tangled mess of strips and threads out of your washer so it is ill advised, hence the definition of weak, without material strength is also quite appropriate. Also think of how flexible an unquilted top is. It really is quite flimsy in structure like a thin kind of paper.
I think the term flimsy is quite applicable for an unfinished top. It is not meant in a derogatory sense but in the literal.
02-28-2014, 12:03 PM
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Me, too. I've never heard a Texas or Oklahoma quilter talk about a flimsy. And since the word has negative connotations for me, I don't think I will start using it. froggyintexas
02-28-2014, 01:07 PM
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