Take a journey into the world of patchwork and quilting and you'll discover that quilters have a language of their own. Unfamiliar lingo encountered when learning about quilting, can be very baffling.
How Can a Quilter Not Know How to Quilt?
Even the word quilt has different meanings. It refers to a coverlet made up of three layers and the act of stitching those three layers together (as in quilt a quilt). Now for some inexplicable reason the word quilter refers to a person who makes quilts even if they don't necessarily know how to quilt them. You could be a quilter and still not be capable of quilting a quilt, as your expertise might lie in one of the many ways to create a quilt top.
The quilt pattern Precious Pieces by Monica Poole of Moonshine Designs uses the Quilt As You Go technique. Can you identify the types of quilting?
Even though quilting is sometimes used as a short form of "patchwork and quilting" (as in saying you are taking up quilting when you are learning how to piece patchwork), in the dictionary you will find that there are two different meanings for quilting. Quilting is the stitching that holds all three layers of a quilt together and it is also the act of creating those stitches.
