Sew Little Humor

I stole this from "Death by Denim" http://deathbydenim.blogspot.com/ because I thought it was, well, funny. (her link is also on my ever-increasing Blog Roll). We all think we know what our acronyms stand for. Well, I'm here to tell you that you're thinking with the wrong part of your brain. Come on, gals (and guy?), but on your home sewn out of scraps thinking cap. Here's what they really mean:

BOM Block Of the Month

DSM Domestic Sewing Machine as in home sewing machine, not long arm

EQ Electric Quilt, marvelous software (also seen as EQ5 or EQ6)

FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

FLIMSY Finished top, not quilted

LA LongArmer, professional machine quilter

LQS Local Quilt Shop

PIG Project In a Grocery Sack

SABLE Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy

SEX Stash Enhancing Experience

STASH Special Treasure, All Secretly Hidden

TGIF Thank Goodness It’s Finished

UFO UnFinished Object

WHIMM Work Hidden In My Mind

WIP Work In Progress

WOMBAT Waste Of Material, Batting, And Time

HST Half-Square Triangle

QST Quarter Square Triangle

DWR Double Wedding Ring (quilt pattern)

GFG--Grandmother's Flower Garden

MAM Mile-A-Minute, modern version of crazy quilt block

SBS--Sunbonnet Sue

My personal favorites, probably because I'm not a quilter and I have a quirky sense of humor (yeah, quit rolling your eyes, I see you from here!) are FART - got one of those in the works, PIG - I should stick a couple of projects in a Grocery bag; I'd feel better about them, and WOMBAT - again I don't quilt, so the batting doesn't apply, but the rest SOOOO does. And I like Australian mammals.

My PJ shirt is coming along. The update on the sleeves is that I had to, of course, trace out the pattern, then cut out the fabric. Of course I didn't have enough fabric, the remnant was too short - wide enough, but too short. It stopped at the cuff. If it was going to stop, that was the place. So, I cut it out with what I had, cut the other sleeve to match, and made cuffs out of the same green polka-dot. I'd thought of doing that already, this made it a necessity. But it took a lot of time that I just don't have. So I'm still not finished on a very simple garment. And I shudder to think how close I came to cutting out a toddler tee-shirt from that 'left-over' fabric. Sorry, no pictures yes, because I'M STILL NOT FINISHED. I still have to hem and do the neck. I'm thinking about bias binding the neck out of the green (it's a woven, tee-shirt is knit). I've cut the binding and pressed it. Next step may be to put some clear elastic at the folded edge to help it keep it's shape and fit closer. I haven't used clear elastic before (though I have enough to go 'round the Earth - thanks to last summer's trip to NYC) so I'm a little afraid. Maybe I'll "Just do it" (remember Nike?) this afternoon, today's a short day. This shirt has turned out so well I'm afraid of messing it up at the end. And I still have the hem to do. EKES.

Since I have no sewing photos, I'll just give you this one. I think I knew this guy in college.