Quiltspeak: Online abbreviations for quilters

I love online abbreviations.  In their way, B4 and gr8 and n2 are tackling the problem of unpredictable spelling that has plagued writers of the English language since before the first Musquetoe bit Merriwether Lewis*.

Acronyms are another story.  They can be impossible to figure out.  I recently saw a list of quilter acronyms that's so useful I just had to share it with you.  

Who couldn't love SABLE, for "Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy?" I think my favorite, though, is "WOMBAT."  

 BOB - Black on Black 

 BOM = Block of the Month 

 DSM = Domestic Sewing Machine 

 FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip 

 FOB = Fear of Binding 

 FQ = Fat Quarter 

 HST = Half-Square Triangle 

 LA = Longarmer 

 LAQ= Long Arm Quilter 

 LQS = Local Quilt Shop 

 MAQ = Mid-Arm Quilter 

 OBW = One Block Wonder 

 OPAM = One Project a Month 

 PhD = Projects Half Done 

 PIGS = Projects in Grocery Sacks 

 PP = Paper Piecing 

 QAYG = Quilt As You Go 

 QST = Quarter Square Triangle 

 RR = Round Robin 

 SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy 

 SEX = Stash Enhancing eXperience (or eXcursion) 

 SID = Stitch In the Ditch 

 SnW = Stack and Whack    

 Squishy = Mailing envelopes full of fabric swaps/gifts

 STASH = Special Treasures All Secretly Hidden  

 TGIF = Thank God It's Finished!  

 TOT = Tone-on-Tone 

 UFO = UnFinished Object 

 VIP = Very Important Project 

 WHIMM = Works Hidden In My Mind 

 WIP = Work In Progress 

 WISP = Work In Slow Progress 

 WWIT = What Was I Thinking 

 WOF = Width of Fabric 

 WOMBAT = Waste of Money, Batting, and Time 

 WOW = White On White

I'm not sure where the list got started; I got it from a post on quiltinghaven.com.  

Please contact me if you know of any more abbreviations and I'll add them to the list. 

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*In fact, I hear that it was John Clark who invented 19 different spellings of the word.