frogging: Undoing stitches, i.e., “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

On the wagon: A period of time where one avoids any new acquisition of stash

Ort: A snippet or leftover bit of thread, usually resulting from a voracious addiction to handcrafted needlework

PRUDE: Person Resisting Unnecessarily Diminishing Existing stash, i.e. someone who refuses to StRIP.

RAK: Random Act of Kindess. When a stitcher anonymously (or not) sends an unexpected stashy treat to another stitcher.

Ripping: See frogging

S.E.X.: Stash Enhancement eXperience; needlework-related purchases. (This should always be spelled with periods to avoid being listed on the “bad” web search engines, but you know, some of us rarely do what we should do.)

SABLE: Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy

SAL: Stitch-along, where two or more stitchers work on a design at the same time

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.

UFO: Unfinished object; haven’t stitched on a project in a while and don’t plan to soon

WIP: Work in progress

WISP: Work in slow progress