stevendebbie25

■BOB = Beginner’s Only Block (swap)
■BOM = Block of the Month
■DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine
■DWR = Double Wedding Ring
■FART = Fabric Aquisition Road Trip
■FIU = Finish It Up
■FQ = Fat Quarter
■HST = Half-Square Triangle
■HSY = Haven’t Started Yet
■LAQ= Long Arm Quilter
■LQS = Local Quilt Shop
■MAQ = Mid-Arm Quilter
■OBW = One-Block Wonder
■PHD = Project Half Done
■PIGS = Projects in Grocery Sacks
■SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
■SEX = Stash Enhancing eXperience (or eXcursion)
■STASH = Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden
■TGIF = Thank God It’s Finished!
■TOT = Tone-on-Tone
■UFO = UnFinshed Object
■WHIMM = Works Hidden In My Mind
■WIP = Work In Progress
■WISP = Work In Slow Progress
■WIVSP = Work In Very Slow Progress
■WIWMI = Wish It Would Make Itself
■WOF = Width of Fabric
■WOMBAT = Waste of Money, Batting, and Time
■WOW = White On White
■WWIT = What Was I Thinking

Here are some, you can google Acranyms for regular ones in email/text use, and quilting acranyms also.

bearisgray

At my house, PHD also stands for Piled Higher and Deeper

SuziC

Don't worry...we were all there too at some point!

donnalynett

Whew....glad someone finally asked the same question I had about all those initials!

stevendebbie25

Never be afraid to ask, I responded, but didn't know myself, just google searched and found these to share.

pester

Don't worry your not the only one. When I first started here I thought LQS was a chain store like Joanns and I didn't know about them because they wern't in my area.

barbrose

ladies what is the name of a long arm that is highly recomened that does not give trouble?

stevendebbie25

I have a friend who gets to 'test drive' all long arm machines, and she does the huge long arm show in Baltimore MD each April, I've been asking her the same questions, and LOTs from everything I hear from everyone.
She is totally sold on Gammill, and the Inteliquilter computer system not the Statler that comes with Gammill.
I saw an impressive demo of the Prodagy long arm, love the table, and it can have Inteliquilter, but she shared that there were problems with delivery & parts missing.
We don't have any long arm dealers here, we have Baby Lock & Bernina's machines, but the big ones like Gammill or Tin lizzy or APQS, no one is near, Gammill is in MN from me in ND.

Test drive any machine, find out the responsiveness of the dealer, are they very helpful, or crabby? Do they do warrenty work? Set up machine? Prices are not cheep, and not to say other machines are also good. But I personally think, support service, lessons, set up, warrenty, and friendliness of dealer to support 'you' is important also. Then user friendly, you want a machine that has a 1 month learning curve, not 6 months and struggling. You want a machine that YOU can handle, some are great for programmed patterns, some don't do well with free motion quilting (heavy & bulky), so what do you want to do? Are you going into business? Bread & Butter is from pentos not free style, production makes the dollars. If this is just for yourself, a small/mid arm size, maybe a couple for friends..then Baby Locks current machine is very user friendly, buy extended warrenty.
DO test drive machine & dealer (support).

mommamac

it's like learning a whole new language - you have to use it awhile to make it stick in your brain!

barbrose

thanks for info