Glossary
- Fat Eighth
- A 9" x 22" piece of fabric
- Fat Quarter
- An 18" x 22" piece of fabric
- GTP
- The Gone to Pieces small group
- Half-square Triangle (HST)
- The kind of triangle you get when you cut a square in evenly in half, corner to corner. Two HSTs make a square.
- Jelly Roll
- A bunch of 2 1/2" strips of fabric cut selvage to selvage (40" to 44" long)
- Omaha Quilts
- The Omaha Quilters' Guild annual quilt show
- Opportunity Quilt
- The quilt raffled at the annual quilt show
- Quarter-square Triangle (QST)
- The kind of triangles you get if you cut a square in half from corner to corner twice. Four QSTs make a square.
- Quilting
- A highly addictive and fun activity.
- Selvage
- The edge from either side of a bolt of fabric. It is usually a good idea to cut off selvage from your fabric because the difference in weave makes it stretch and iron differently then the rest of the fabric.
- Shop Hop
- An event (usually sponsored by quilt shops) in which quilters visit multiple quilt stores in the span of a few days.
- Stripping
- Making a quilt top out of strips of fabric.
