BAP
| - | Big arse project |
BF
| - | blending filament |
frogging
| - | undoing stitches . . . “Rip-it! Rip-it!” |
HD
| - | happy dance - announcing a finish to your friends, acquaintances, and/or a cross stitch bulletin board |
LNS
| - | local needlework shop |
NSLNS
| - | Not So Local Needlework Store |
on the wagon
| - | a period of time where one avoids any new acquisition of stash |
ONS
| - | Online Needlework Store |
PRUDE
| - | Person Resisting Unnecessarily Diminishing Existing stash, i.e. someone who refuses to StRIP. |
RAK
| - | random act of kindness (Usually to do with giving away stash to someone with or without them knowing :D ) |
ripping
| - | see frogging |
RR
| - | Round Robin |
SABLE
| - | Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy |
SAL
| - | stitch-along, where two or more stitchers work on a design at the same time |
S.E.X.
| - | stash enhancement experience; needlework-related purchases. Must always be spelled with periods to avoid being listed on the “bad” web search engines! |
stash
| - | your personal needlework supplies |
StRIP
| - | Stash Reduction Implementation Plan, usually done when SABLE has been achieved. Typically, no new purchases are allowed for a set amount of time and/or until a certain amount of stash is used up. A person who does this is a StRIPper. See on the wagon. |
SWIP
| - | WISP |
UFO
| - | unfinished object; haven't stitched it in a while & don't plan on soon |
WIP
| - | work in progress |
WISP
| - | work in slow progress |