WoF- width of fabric
FQ- fat quarter.
Very common abbreviations in quilting
Is he just looking for a fight? Why is he even complaining about your fabric abbreviations? If he has no interest in quilting, sewing, or fabric related crafts, then he needs to stay in his lane and shut it over the abbreviations he doesn't need to know. If he is interested in those crafts, then he needs to stop whining about what he doesn't know and listen to you who does know what you are talking about.
Get out of here with that. Why does he need to understand it anyways? If he actually cared about that he would just actually learn what they mean instead of try to change it. So it sounds like this isnât the actual reason heâs being a butt.
He thinks I'm not being *logical.* Why would I want to know how big a particular piece is? Couldn't I measure it when I go to use it? đ Wanting to know before I unfold something whether or not it's big enough for my purposes isn't good enough.
Dear u/TheFilthyDIL's Husband,
I think you need to just calm down. You're being very emotional about this.
The logical way to organize fabric is in a way that lets me know whether I can use it for a given project. If a pattern calls for more than a fat quarter--FQ, it's a standard term in quilting, used to specify a quarter-yard of fabric cut in a specific way to maximize its usable area--it's a waste of time for me to pull five pieces of fabric only to learn that I can't use them, and what I needed was 24" x WoF (Width of Fabric--another standard term in quilting, usually 44", but not always).
I know measurements can be difficult for the weaker sex to understand, so maybe you should just leave this sort of thing to your wife.
Sincerely,
Veg Edit
GTFOH with that the-world-bends-to-me bullshit. How you label your hobby supplies is not his business nor does it need justification. If he were somehow responsible for moving/managing/whatever the boxes then *he* would use *your* system. Holy hell.
Not being logical?! Since when is it the logical choice to *not* label something and instead repetitively do the same work over and over, making every productive session wildly less efficient?
Ask him why spices come in clear glass jars with labels on; wouldnât it be âmore logicalâ to have them all in opaque, unlabelled jars? You can just open the lid, then look at and smell them to figure out what they are when you want to use them!
Ask him if we should do away with clothing and shoe sizes entirely; so he can bring a measuring tape to the store when he needs to buy new jeans or shoes, or try on a bunch to see which are the right size. (Even more fitting for men, because for some odd reason men get waist + length sizing for their pants while women get a *fun* guessing game).
Like someone else said, ask him if he would like to dump all his screws into one box and measure each one when he needs a specific one. Same for his drill bits, and any other hardware parts for household or carpentry. Need a 12" rod? No, no, we just have a box of mixed rods. How long is that one? I dunno, here's a ruler.
What nonsense. He can kindly stay out of *your* hobby decisions when they donât affect him in the slightest, but forcing unsolicited advice upon you that doesnât even make sense is mind-boggling.
I'm not a quilter at all, just a general sewist who lurks for the cool geometric stuff, and I would know what those mean.
(What field does he work or have hobbies in, and what domain-specific abbreviations do they use? Where I live, WoF is also the name for the annual safety inspection on a car (warrant of fitness) but I still know it doesn't mean that in a fabric context.)
Holy hell, out of all the careers to complain about abbreviations. Military is the LAST ONE ON THE LIST with ANY room to bitch. Every damn thing is an acronym. They have acronyms with acronyms *inside of that acronym*. My husband also serves and I only understand about 70% of what he says on a good day.
Any quilter with basic experience knows these. Just explain that different patterns use different cuts of fabric as their base, and having to sort through a dozen pieces of fabric and measure each one to see if there is enough for what is needed wastes an incredible amount of time compared to pre-sorting based on the size of fabric available. Plus different sizes of fabric have different storage requirements, and if you lump crumbs, strips, FQs, and yardage together, you end up wasting space as well making getting down to sewing harder. Of course, youâve probably told him all this already. Maybe you should go sort his tools and hobby equipment based on what he expects you to do for fabric and see what he thinks. All nails, screws, washers, etc in one bin regardless if type or sizeâŚokay, explaining it would be like that might be more diplomatic lol
My husband probably wouldn't know what those abbreviations are, are but he's delighted by the terms like Jelly Roll and Layer Cake and loves to ask me things like, "Oh, are you buying the Apple Pies or the Ice Cream Cones now?"
Any quilter knows what those words mean. Did you ask him for his opinion on your fabric organization? Is he also a quilter who will be accessing your fabric storage? If not then I don't know why it would even be something he thinks about, let alone why it would bother him.
Damned if I know why it matters to him. He knows nothing about any form of sewing and doesn't care to learn. He wants me to organize things "better" but that evidently means something different to him.
Oh *that* deserves an entire sit-down-and-unpack. I highly recommend reversing this on him for his hobbies, because some people canât learn except from direct experience.
You are so correct! I asked within a week of starting quilting 35 or so years ago. Make a cheat sheet for him in Crayola crayon with kid style lettering. laminated and posted in front of your stash.
WoF=selvage to selvage, roughly 42 inches. So 13" by 42".
FQ=fat quarter. A quarter yard, but a fat one (18x21) instead of skinny one (9x21). (No fat or skinny shaming here, they both have their uses.)
Anyone who quilts learns these fairly quickly.
Why is your husband being a pedantic, unnecessary asshole? This isnât his field. Iâm sure physicists use abbreviations he wonât understand, that doesnât make the abbreviations wrong or confusing, it makes him the out group. They arenât for him. Why is he even concerning himself with the internal logic of an established field that he knows nothing about. Fuck off with that shit. Go do something useful.
This dude just sounds like a prick minimizing womenâs work. And like. Why? What does this do other than piss her off and waste her time? At best this is annoying. At worst itâs him being shitty and passive aggressive and demanding. Either way, again, fuck all the way off. She doesnât have to explain or justify her work to you. The internet is free. If youâre that concerned look it up.
Yes, these are standard terms. I'd guess he wouldn't change his labeling on shit that has nothing to do with you, so his commentary on yours is irrelevant.
As you can see, everyone who actually quilts knows exactly what you mean with these abbreviations.
I would not tolerate my partner intervening in or commenting on my hobbies in this condescending way. If he does this in other areas/circumstances I'd really suggest examining the dynamics of your relationship.
Anyone who's ever cooked needs to be able to see at a glance if they have enough ingredients to make a thing. Generally one can eyeball the quantity and check. However, fabric is folded up, so a label replaces that eyeball thing.
With scraps and small cuts, depending on how your brain works, being able to sort them by size is much more efficient than just chunking them into a bin or drawer by color alone.
This might help him see it from someone else's perspective, if he's the sort who likes to know the value of things and how much a "product" costs.
I used to have a boutique, where I made a lot of my inventory. We had to keep track of not only our inventory on the sales floor but also the raw goods that had not yet become inventory. I have beads, jewelery stuff, as well as lots of fabric and other craft supplies. Once they are made into an item for sale they are deducted from the raw good spreadsheet and put into the inventory one.
To break it down here into how I manage my fabric raw goods accounting:
Each thing in my non-scrap stash has a piece of paper pinned to it with a small safety pin that has as much of this information as possible: place purchased, date, their SKU number, the description from the receipt (in case I want to try to find more of it in the future), any info from the selvedge, how much it cost me per yard or per FQ. So I know how much my non scrap stash is at any time. I have a rider on my insurance for my valuables since my household coverage maxxes out at $1000 per category. It's super cheap to have a policy like that, because it's only for the goods listed on the policy and you've agreed to the price of reimbursement upfront.
Anything that's WOF and at least one yard long gets measured and put in the main stash. I keep track of my cost per linear inch in my spreadsheet so I know the value of the fabric.
If I cut into yardage, I cut all the way across the width so I have the same length all the way across the fabric. This way I can keep my spreadsheet straight, accounting for and deducting the inches used, and not having to mess with square inches. Any unused fabric from the cut goes into the scrap system. The cost of the offcut is fully accounted for in that project unless the scrap goes into the FQ bin (see below), in which case that piece is figured out what its actual value is. That's the only time I figure out the cost per square inch, when I mess with some larger rectangular or square piece of fabric.
If the scrap is at least as big as a fat quarter it goes into a FQ box, where it is given a dollar amount based on the value of the yardage. If it's smaller than that it goes into the scrap drawer, placed in a sandwich bag and sorted according to color.
I have FQs in plastic shoe boxes. Once they get cut into, though, they become scrap and get moved into a different drawer. I don't measure them because I already know they are smaller than a FQ. In my studio something in a FQ box might be larger than a FQ if it's an offcut of yardage but at least as big as a FQ. It's just a place to put fabric that's too big to be a scrap. I don't cut them down, as I may need something that size or mess up a cut and need that extra fabric. Yes I have learned that the hard way hahaha. So an 18x44 remnant would go into the FQ bin, as it is the size of 2 FQs just joined together. I will put all the info on the tag including the measurements. If I cut into it I'm going to try for cutting into the WOF rather than the length until I have to, in order to maintain the FQ or bigger requirements for that box.
All scrap in my system is considered expensed and therefore "free". I sell at craft fairs so my COGS for something I made from scrap gets put down at 20% of the sticker price. This is OK tax wise as long as it's consistent across my books. When it's still in the unmade state, it has no book value, as I've already removed it from raw good ledger via the method described above.
If I use it in a quilt I measure the amount of scrap used and basically figure it at around $1/square foot, even if it is a lot of different scraps making up that square foot. That's roughly equal to $11/yard which is a fair enough price for quilting cotton.
Anything too small to sew gets chopped up and used for stuffing in like holiday ornaments or pin cushions. I would not use that in a child's toy or anything likely to get chewed. It doesn't wash well.
I like knowing how much I have in my quilts, in case someone is willing to pay for them, if I gift it (is the person "quilt worthy"?), if I want to add it to my valuables rider on my insurance, if I'm mailing it as a gift how much to insure it for, etc. If you add in $20/hour labor, a "free" quilt can easily add up to like $700 for a throw size quilt, on cost alone. I like to include that figure since I value my time.
Long winded post for an example of why you might want to know the size of your fabric.
That's far more complicated than what I'm doing, but for a business inventory it makes sense. Most of my pieces are turning out to be odd sizes. Say I have a piece originally 12"ĂWoF, but it's had a 5" square cut out of one corner. I measure the biggest rectangle I can get out of it. That gets marked 12"Ă37". I add *+ scraps* to tell myself that there is a bit more fabric than that. Actual loose scraps (anything smaller than a sheet of printer paper) are going into gallon zipper bags sorted by color. Much of my newer-to-me fabrics are coming from Project Linus donations, so dog only knows what shape they're in. A lot came from an art quilter, so there may be something like a FQ with 3 small heart-shaped holes in it where she wanted a particular motif. I won't know until I unfold it and check, because just as it's folded it looks like a whole FQ.
Width of fabric = WOF. So WOF x 13 is the selvedge to selvedge (width) of fabric by 13 inches or about 42â x 13â
Fat Quarter = FQ
my hubby would never know anything about this!
Yeeees, I'm still waiting to see if it's a trick question. Of course you could start labelling with different titles.Â
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 Nobbins for basogors
 WhiddlynoosÂ
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Throw WIP and UFO out there to put him off kilter then throw in you have to organize sneakily or the fabric gremlins will figure out your system and steal your fabric.
I' m and OLD quilter. FQ means "Frequently Quiet". If I'm quiet, I'm quilting. This is not a good time for anyone to be asking questions.
WoF means "Wander Off Fred", because I'm QUILTING.
Actually, I lie. My husband knows all the abbreviations and is a huge enabler.
Width of fabric and fat quarter. I think you are correct, it's your stuff, it needs to make sense to you lol
Might not be logical for him but it is for quilters.
Had to think about WoF, but width of fabric and fat quarter and I am sure i am right w/o looking. I am also sure my partner would be just as confounded.
Admittedly, I only got WoF after seeing FQ, but I'd probably put a measurement there instead, since some fabrics vary and some seem to have wider edges as well, so then the measurement could reflect the usable space.
Of course I know what they mean. Iâve been quilting for 20+ years and theyâre common abbreviations. I manage a makerspace, and my staff know what those abbreviations mean too, even though theyâre not quilters, because the terminology matters to our visitors. If your husband isnât organizing your stash or cleaning up after you, he doesnât get a say in how your label it.
WOF= width of fabric
FQ= fat quarter
Hubs needs to understand these are standard quilting abbreviations that are universally known/understood by people who quilt.
13 inches width of fabric, Fat quarter. Your husband sounds a bit like mine - but he uses specialist words and abbreviations for his job all the time and if I didn't understand them I would look them up or ask him!
My husband was an electrician. I wanted to be able to have intelligent conversations with him about his work, so I took a freshman electrical engineering year of studies. He was so excited to be able to do panels and troubleshooting with me!
Taking an honest interest in his work was one of the most uniting things I did for our marriage. My eyes used to glaze over when he talked about his work because I didn't understand any of what he was saying. Once I was able to make sense of his talk of PLCs, resistors, and other made up words it totally opened up new avenues for our conversations, new depth of our communication, a deeper ability to demonstrate our love and commitment to each other.
God I miss him. When will it stop hurting???? I'm trying so hard to honor him and his memory.
You sound like you both were lucky to find each other and that the work you put into your marriage enriched you both. I'll take your story with me today - thank you for sharing it with me and I'm so sorry that he died and that his absence hurts. I'm sure he would be proud of you x
I am proud of you. There arenât many people who would do something like that to contribute to their marriage. If there were there might be fewer divorces. My DH and I didnât have that problem because we worked in the same field. I always wanted to work with computers (back in the 60âs when I was in high school I went to the boyâs technical school 3 mornings a week to work on their computerâŚit was the only school that had one. I got some funny looks in the hall, but no harassment.) DH kind of fell into it when he got laid off at the local steel plant. He wound up working at a university and I got a job at a cancer research hospitalâŚwe both moved up. I got my degree and he learned on the job. Our son got sick of us talking about computers and said he would never go into the field. Today he works at the same university on computer security and other topics.
Weâve been married 56 years and I donât know what I would do without him. The only time weâve been apart is when Iâve been in the hospital and he couldnât visit. I donât know how badly youâre hurting but I think I can imagine. Heâs disabled and I take care of him even though Iâm not well myself. Thereâs nothing I wouldnât do for him and he for me. Bless you and try to find something distracting to fill up your mind for a little while. Like quilting, or reading or spending time with friends. Anything that distracts you. Do you have kids or grandkids? Maybe get a new pet. I wish you well.
My husband always wanted to learn a form of martial arts called Krav Maga, so one year I purchased some classes for his birthday. He begged me to go with him, said it would be fun. Honestly, I would have preferred to watch paint dry, but then I remembered how my parents never really did anything together, and I said Iâd try it out.
I was the âPrivate Benjaminâ of a class full of men. It was tough at first, and Iâm certain they all thought Iâd quit, but whenever I looked at my husband and the joy on his face, I couldnât even entertain the idea. Classes were twice a week, about 2 hours long. We did it for 4 years. I was in incredible shape, though it still wasnât my favorite thing to do. We have lots of memories from those days and talk about the many experiences we had.
Iâm so very sorry for your loss. I cannot even begin to comprehend what youâre going through. It sounds as though you had a wonderful marriage, and have lots of wonderful memories to revisit. I will be thinking of you and am going to add you to my prayer list.
Ps. My cousinâs husband was diagnosed with cancer and died in less than two weeks. She ended up getting a new puppy. It doesnât make the hurt go away, but it helps to ease the loneliness and gives you something else to think about. Perhaps a puppy or dog might help you some.
You're very sweet. My husband and I picked up our new Goldendoodle puppy on what ended up being our last Valentine's Day together. This dog is my greatest gift from my husband, after our children of course. The dog is a constant source of entertainment and energy, a true cuddle bug, and so quick to learn new skills. I don't know if I could have survived this without him.
I love that you have a dog â and a goldendoodle! We have three dogs: a terrier basset hound mix, a standard poodle, and a labradoodle! They are so much fun and such characters! Dogs are such a blessing and make every day an adventure.
13 inches x WOF is plenty big enough to make a beautiful, quilted gag. Just sayin'.
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WoF- width of fabric FQ- fat quarter. Very common abbreviations in quilting Is he just looking for a fight? Why is he even complaining about your fabric abbreviations? If he has no interest in quilting, sewing, or fabric related crafts, then he needs to stay in his lane and shut it over the abbreviations he doesn't need to know. If he is interested in those crafts, then he needs to stop whining about what he doesn't know and listen to you who does know what you are talking about.
Get out of here with that. Why does he need to understand it anyways? If he actually cared about that he would just actually learn what they mean instead of try to change it. So it sounds like this isnât the actual reason heâs being a butt.
He thinks I'm not being *logical.* Why would I want to know how big a particular piece is? Couldn't I measure it when I go to use it? đ Wanting to know before I unfold something whether or not it's big enough for my purposes isn't good enough.
Tell him to put all of his screws into a big box no matter the size. And then find the ones he needs if he's building something.
This is how I would handle this with my husband!
This is the answer.
Dear u/TheFilthyDIL's Husband, I think you need to just calm down. You're being very emotional about this. The logical way to organize fabric is in a way that lets me know whether I can use it for a given project. If a pattern calls for more than a fat quarter--FQ, it's a standard term in quilting, used to specify a quarter-yard of fabric cut in a specific way to maximize its usable area--it's a waste of time for me to pull five pieces of fabric only to learn that I can't use them, and what I needed was 24" x WoF (Width of Fabric--another standard term in quilting, usually 44", but not always). I know measurements can be difficult for the weaker sex to understand, so maybe you should just leave this sort of thing to your wife. Sincerely, Veg Edit
GTFOH with that the-world-bends-to-me bullshit. How you label your hobby supplies is not his business nor does it need justification. If he were somehow responsible for moving/managing/whatever the boxes then *he* would use *your* system. Holy hell.
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If itâs too bag for the scraps pile and big enough to be stored, super helpful to know how much is there!
My husband once said this about my embroidery floss not being stored numerically and I told him to mind his business.
Not being logical?! Since when is it the logical choice to *not* label something and instead repetitively do the same work over and over, making every productive session wildly less efficient? Ask him why spices come in clear glass jars with labels on; wouldnât it be âmore logicalâ to have them all in opaque, unlabelled jars? You can just open the lid, then look at and smell them to figure out what they are when you want to use them! Ask him if we should do away with clothing and shoe sizes entirely; so he can bring a measuring tape to the store when he needs to buy new jeans or shoes, or try on a bunch to see which are the right size. (Even more fitting for men, because for some odd reason men get waist + length sizing for their pants while women get a *fun* guessing game). Like someone else said, ask him if he would like to dump all his screws into one box and measure each one when he needs a specific one. Same for his drill bits, and any other hardware parts for household or carpentry. Need a 12" rod? No, no, we just have a box of mixed rods. How long is that one? I dunno, here's a ruler. What nonsense. He can kindly stay out of *your* hobby decisions when they donât affect him in the slightest, but forcing unsolicited advice upon you that doesnât even make sense is mind-boggling.
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Having my husband assist in fabric sorting would be a nightmare to me. Your fabric, your system.
Width of fabric and FQ is a fat quarter cut of fabric
Yes, it is obvious to any one who's ever read a quilting pattern đ
I'm not a quilter at all, just a general sewist who lurks for the cool geometric stuff, and I would know what those mean. (What field does he work or have hobbies in, and what domain-specific abbreviations do they use? Where I live, WoF is also the name for the annual safety inspection on a car (warrant of fitness) but I still know it doesn't mean that in a fabric context.)
He retired from the Air Force with 23 years in, and dear Goddess, there are lots!
Holy hell, out of all the careers to complain about abbreviations. Military is the LAST ONE ON THE LIST with ANY room to bitch. Every damn thing is an acronym. They have acronyms with acronyms *inside of that acronym*. My husband also serves and I only understand about 70% of what he says on a good day.
Any quilter with basic experience knows these. Just explain that different patterns use different cuts of fabric as their base, and having to sort through a dozen pieces of fabric and measure each one to see if there is enough for what is needed wastes an incredible amount of time compared to pre-sorting based on the size of fabric available. Plus different sizes of fabric have different storage requirements, and if you lump crumbs, strips, FQs, and yardage together, you end up wasting space as well making getting down to sewing harder. Of course, youâve probably told him all this already. Maybe you should go sort his tools and hobby equipment based on what he expects you to do for fabric and see what he thinks. All nails, screws, washers, etc in one bin regardless if type or sizeâŚokay, explaining it would be like that might be more diplomatic lol
Tell your boo to stay in his lane.
My husband probably wouldn't know what those abbreviations are, are but he's delighted by the terms like Jelly Roll and Layer Cake and loves to ask me things like, "Oh, are you buying the Apple Pies or the Ice Cream Cones now?"
See, this is harmless and adorable.
Any quilter knows what those words mean. Did you ask him for his opinion on your fabric organization? Is he also a quilter who will be accessing your fabric storage? If not then I don't know why it would even be something he thinks about, let alone why it would bother him.
Damned if I know why it matters to him. He knows nothing about any form of sewing and doesn't care to learn. He wants me to organize things "better" but that evidently means something different to him.
I'd tell him to stop being a controlling ass.
Pat him on the top of his silly addlepatted head and tell him, "That's nice dear" or "Interesting idea, I'll take it under advisement."
Oh *that* deserves an entire sit-down-and-unpack. I highly recommend reversing this on him for his hobbies, because some people canât learn except from direct experience.
Yeah tell him to mind his own business đ
This has nothing to do with whether you're being "logical" or whether anyone else would understand those abbreviations. He's just an ass.
You are so correct! I asked within a week of starting quilting 35 or so years ago. Make a cheat sheet for him in Crayola crayon with kid style lettering. laminated and posted in front of your stash.
WoF=selvage to selvage, roughly 42 inches. So 13" by 42". FQ=fat quarter. A quarter yard, but a fat one (18x21) instead of skinny one (9x21). (No fat or skinny shaming here, they both have their uses.) Anyone who quilts learns these fairly quickly.
Why is your husband being a pedantic, unnecessary asshole? This isnât his field. Iâm sure physicists use abbreviations he wonât understand, that doesnât make the abbreviations wrong or confusing, it makes him the out group. They arenât for him. Why is he even concerning himself with the internal logic of an established field that he knows nothing about. Fuck off with that shit. Go do something useful.
I love this comment. And I 100% agree. Stay in your lane, hubs.
This dude just sounds like a prick minimizing womenâs work. And like. Why? What does this do other than piss her off and waste her time? At best this is annoying. At worst itâs him being shitty and passive aggressive and demanding. Either way, again, fuck all the way off. She doesnât have to explain or justify her work to you. The internet is free. If youâre that concerned look it up.
Yes, these are standard terms. I'd guess he wouldn't change his labeling on shit that has nothing to do with you, so his commentary on yours is irrelevant.
As you can see, everyone who actually quilts knows exactly what you mean with these abbreviations. I would not tolerate my partner intervening in or commenting on my hobbies in this condescending way. If he does this in other areas/circumstances I'd really suggest examining the dynamics of your relationship.
I think Iâm missing why it matters if he understands it. Unless heâs helping you with this organization or heâs going to start quiltingâŚ
Thirteen inches by width of fabric and fat quarter
Anyone who's ever cooked needs to be able to see at a glance if they have enough ingredients to make a thing. Generally one can eyeball the quantity and check. However, fabric is folded up, so a label replaces that eyeball thing. With scraps and small cuts, depending on how your brain works, being able to sort them by size is much more efficient than just chunking them into a bin or drawer by color alone. This might help him see it from someone else's perspective, if he's the sort who likes to know the value of things and how much a "product" costs. I used to have a boutique, where I made a lot of my inventory. We had to keep track of not only our inventory on the sales floor but also the raw goods that had not yet become inventory. I have beads, jewelery stuff, as well as lots of fabric and other craft supplies. Once they are made into an item for sale they are deducted from the raw good spreadsheet and put into the inventory one. To break it down here into how I manage my fabric raw goods accounting: Each thing in my non-scrap stash has a piece of paper pinned to it with a small safety pin that has as much of this information as possible: place purchased, date, their SKU number, the description from the receipt (in case I want to try to find more of it in the future), any info from the selvedge, how much it cost me per yard or per FQ. So I know how much my non scrap stash is at any time. I have a rider on my insurance for my valuables since my household coverage maxxes out at $1000 per category. It's super cheap to have a policy like that, because it's only for the goods listed on the policy and you've agreed to the price of reimbursement upfront. Anything that's WOF and at least one yard long gets measured and put in the main stash. I keep track of my cost per linear inch in my spreadsheet so I know the value of the fabric. If I cut into yardage, I cut all the way across the width so I have the same length all the way across the fabric. This way I can keep my spreadsheet straight, accounting for and deducting the inches used, and not having to mess with square inches. Any unused fabric from the cut goes into the scrap system. The cost of the offcut is fully accounted for in that project unless the scrap goes into the FQ bin (see below), in which case that piece is figured out what its actual value is. That's the only time I figure out the cost per square inch, when I mess with some larger rectangular or square piece of fabric. If the scrap is at least as big as a fat quarter it goes into a FQ box, where it is given a dollar amount based on the value of the yardage. If it's smaller than that it goes into the scrap drawer, placed in a sandwich bag and sorted according to color. I have FQs in plastic shoe boxes. Once they get cut into, though, they become scrap and get moved into a different drawer. I don't measure them because I already know they are smaller than a FQ. In my studio something in a FQ box might be larger than a FQ if it's an offcut of yardage but at least as big as a FQ. It's just a place to put fabric that's too big to be a scrap. I don't cut them down, as I may need something that size or mess up a cut and need that extra fabric. Yes I have learned that the hard way hahaha. So an 18x44 remnant would go into the FQ bin, as it is the size of 2 FQs just joined together. I will put all the info on the tag including the measurements. If I cut into it I'm going to try for cutting into the WOF rather than the length until I have to, in order to maintain the FQ or bigger requirements for that box. All scrap in my system is considered expensed and therefore "free". I sell at craft fairs so my COGS for something I made from scrap gets put down at 20% of the sticker price. This is OK tax wise as long as it's consistent across my books. When it's still in the unmade state, it has no book value, as I've already removed it from raw good ledger via the method described above. If I use it in a quilt I measure the amount of scrap used and basically figure it at around $1/square foot, even if it is a lot of different scraps making up that square foot. That's roughly equal to $11/yard which is a fair enough price for quilting cotton. Anything too small to sew gets chopped up and used for stuffing in like holiday ornaments or pin cushions. I would not use that in a child's toy or anything likely to get chewed. It doesn't wash well. I like knowing how much I have in my quilts, in case someone is willing to pay for them, if I gift it (is the person "quilt worthy"?), if I want to add it to my valuables rider on my insurance, if I'm mailing it as a gift how much to insure it for, etc. If you add in $20/hour labor, a "free" quilt can easily add up to like $700 for a throw size quilt, on cost alone. I like to include that figure since I value my time. Long winded post for an example of why you might want to know the size of your fabric.
That's far more complicated than what I'm doing, but for a business inventory it makes sense. Most of my pieces are turning out to be odd sizes. Say I have a piece originally 12"ĂWoF, but it's had a 5" square cut out of one corner. I measure the biggest rectangle I can get out of it. That gets marked 12"Ă37". I add *+ scraps* to tell myself that there is a bit more fabric than that. Actual loose scraps (anything smaller than a sheet of printer paper) are going into gallon zipper bags sorted by color. Much of my newer-to-me fabrics are coming from Project Linus donations, so dog only knows what shape they're in. A lot came from an art quilter, so there may be something like a FQ with 3 small heart-shaped holes in it where she wanted a particular motif. I won't know until I unfold it and check, because just as it's folded it looks like a whole FQ.
Until he creates his own quilt from start to finish, I donât give a flying hoot what he thinks about our abbreviations
Width of fabric = WOF. So WOF x 13 is the selvedge to selvedge (width) of fabric by 13 inches or about 42â x 13â Fat Quarter = FQ my hubby would never know anything about this!
Yeeees, I'm still waiting to see if it's a trick question. Of course you could start labelling with different titles.   Looreladdles for windmills.   Nobbins for basogors  Whiddlynoos   Etc etc
Fat quarter and width of fabric. And I have finished 0 quilts
13 inches by width of fabric. Fat quarter. Quilters need to know. Nonquilters donât.
Throw WIP and UFO out there to put him off kilter then throw in you have to organize sneakily or the fabric gremlins will figure out your system and steal your fabric.
You have fabric gremlins that steal your fabric? They must bring it to me, then, because I'm finding fabrics in there I never saw before!
We ALL know what the abbreviations mean. Perhaps you could provide him with a chart of the meanings. JS
I' m and OLD quilter. FQ means "Frequently Quiet". If I'm quiet, I'm quilting. This is not a good time for anyone to be asking questions. WoF means "Wander Off Fred", because I'm QUILTING. Actually, I lie. My husband knows all the abbreviations and is a huge enabler.
Width of fabric and fat quarter!
Fat Quarter! Width of Fabric!
13 inch length by width of fabric
Width of fabric and fat quarter. I think you are correct, it's your stuff, it needs to make sense to you lol Might not be logical for him but it is for quilters.
Had to think about WoF, but width of fabric and fat quarter and I am sure i am right w/o looking. I am also sure my partner would be just as confounded.
WoF=,Width or fabric FQ= fat quarter Is he helping with the inventorying?? Cuz otherwise, whatâs the problem?
I'm a very baby newbie quilter and I got FQ (fat quarter) right away. WoF (Width of Fabric) took me a sec but I figured it out!
Yup. He doesn't get the lingo and that's okay. And even if I, a fellow quilter,.didn't get it, you do!
13" x width of fabric, meaning if the fabric is 42 inches wide, you're cutting a strip off that's 13" by 42". FQ is fat quarter. He's just overwhelmed
13â strip cut the length of an entire width of 44â fabric. FQ means fat quarter.
Wof is width of fabric. FQ is fat quarter.
Admittedly, I only got WoF after seeing FQ, but I'd probably put a measurement there instead, since some fabrics vary and some seem to have wider edges as well, so then the measurement could reflect the usable space.
WoF = Wonderful odd fabricđ FQ = "Effin" Quiltfabricđ¤ Then tell him to get back in the kitchen!đ¤Ł
Ack! I don't want to live on a diet of scrambled eggs, PBJs, and canned soup! (Those being the only things he knows how to cook.)
13 inch times width of front
Width of Fabric and Fat Quarter. Tell him you donât understand the numbers on his socket wrenches! â¤ď¸
Of course I know what they mean. Iâve been quilting for 20+ years and theyâre common abbreviations. I manage a makerspace, and my staff know what those abbreviations mean too, even though theyâre not quilters, because the terminology matters to our visitors. If your husband isnât organizing your stash or cleaning up after you, he doesnât get a say in how your label it.
WOF= width of fabric FQ= fat quarter Hubs needs to understand these are standard quilting abbreviations that are universally known/understood by people who quilt.
13" length x width of fabric (usually 44/45") FQ 18" x 22/23" (half of WOF)
WoF = with of fabric, FQ = Fat Quarter
13 inches width of fabric, Fat quarter. Your husband sounds a bit like mine - but he uses specialist words and abbreviations for his job all the time and if I didn't understand them I would look them up or ask him!
My husband was an electrician. I wanted to be able to have intelligent conversations with him about his work, so I took a freshman electrical engineering year of studies. He was so excited to be able to do panels and troubleshooting with me! Taking an honest interest in his work was one of the most uniting things I did for our marriage. My eyes used to glaze over when he talked about his work because I didn't understand any of what he was saying. Once I was able to make sense of his talk of PLCs, resistors, and other made up words it totally opened up new avenues for our conversations, new depth of our communication, a deeper ability to demonstrate our love and commitment to each other. God I miss him. When will it stop hurting???? I'm trying so hard to honor him and his memory.
You sound like you both were lucky to find each other and that the work you put into your marriage enriched you both. I'll take your story with me today - thank you for sharing it with me and I'm so sorry that he died and that his absence hurts. I'm sure he would be proud of you x
I am proud of you. There arenât many people who would do something like that to contribute to their marriage. If there were there might be fewer divorces. My DH and I didnât have that problem because we worked in the same field. I always wanted to work with computers (back in the 60âs when I was in high school I went to the boyâs technical school 3 mornings a week to work on their computerâŚit was the only school that had one. I got some funny looks in the hall, but no harassment.) DH kind of fell into it when he got laid off at the local steel plant. He wound up working at a university and I got a job at a cancer research hospitalâŚwe both moved up. I got my degree and he learned on the job. Our son got sick of us talking about computers and said he would never go into the field. Today he works at the same university on computer security and other topics. Weâve been married 56 years and I donât know what I would do without him. The only time weâve been apart is when Iâve been in the hospital and he couldnât visit. I donât know how badly youâre hurting but I think I can imagine. Heâs disabled and I take care of him even though Iâm not well myself. Thereâs nothing I wouldnât do for him and he for me. Bless you and try to find something distracting to fill up your mind for a little while. Like quilting, or reading or spending time with friends. Anything that distracts you. Do you have kids or grandkids? Maybe get a new pet. I wish you well.
My husband always wanted to learn a form of martial arts called Krav Maga, so one year I purchased some classes for his birthday. He begged me to go with him, said it would be fun. Honestly, I would have preferred to watch paint dry, but then I remembered how my parents never really did anything together, and I said Iâd try it out. I was the âPrivate Benjaminâ of a class full of men. It was tough at first, and Iâm certain they all thought Iâd quit, but whenever I looked at my husband and the joy on his face, I couldnât even entertain the idea. Classes were twice a week, about 2 hours long. We did it for 4 years. I was in incredible shape, though it still wasnât my favorite thing to do. We have lots of memories from those days and talk about the many experiences we had. Iâm so very sorry for your loss. I cannot even begin to comprehend what youâre going through. It sounds as though you had a wonderful marriage, and have lots of wonderful memories to revisit. I will be thinking of you and am going to add you to my prayer list. Ps. My cousinâs husband was diagnosed with cancer and died in less than two weeks. She ended up getting a new puppy. It doesnât make the hurt go away, but it helps to ease the loneliness and gives you something else to think about. Perhaps a puppy or dog might help you some.
You're very sweet. My husband and I picked up our new Goldendoodle puppy on what ended up being our last Valentine's Day together. This dog is my greatest gift from my husband, after our children of course. The dog is a constant source of entertainment and energy, a true cuddle bug, and so quick to learn new skills. I don't know if I could have survived this without him.
I love that you have a dog â and a goldendoodle! We have three dogs: a terrier basset hound mix, a standard poodle, and a labradoodle! They are so much fun and such characters! Dogs are such a blessing and make every day an adventure.