​​​​Awaiting Delivery Of Threads 
Big Ass Project, Big  Awesome Project
BackStitch
totally covered with stitches (wall to wall)
group of stitches each being a different color

Fun and Done

Finally Finished Object, Fully Finished Object

Rip it, Rip it

Forgotten Stash

Happy Dance - what you do when you finish stitching a project
Local Needlework Store
Mystery Stitch-A-Long
anything (other than floss) accidentally stitched into project
New In Package
Online Needlework Store

One Of A Kind
Out Of Print
unavoidable dog/cat hair stitched into project
Old Raggedy (Ratty) Threads (the ends you trim off)
a jar or other container used to contain your ORTs

Pulled From Oblivion  (something not worked on for long time

Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy
Stitch-A-Long
Started But Not Finished

Stuff I'll Never Stitch

Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust

Unfinished Object

Work In Progress
Waiting On Arrival

UP FOR A CHALLENGE?

​The world’s largest cross stitch pattern was published 2011 by Joanna Lopianowki-Roberts, who designed and stitched it.  The design of the Sistine Chapel ceiling contains 628,296 stitches and the finished size on 14-count is 40″ x 80″ or 100 cm x 200 cm.  She spent 718 hours designing, 68 hours picking colors and 2,872 hours stitching.  She used a total of 1206 colors, 421 DMC colors and the rest two strand blends of those colors.

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​Purchase Pattern Here

World's Largest Cross Stitch

created by a single person

Peter  Volna from the Slovak Republic stitched a part of da Vinci's Last Supper painting.   It contains 1,111, 396 stitches and the finished size on 14-count is  76" x  53" (1.94 m x 1.34 m).  It took 10 years of stitching 3 hours a day to complete and used 30 miles (48 kilometers) of floss.​

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​​​​​ADOT 
BAP
BS
carpet
confetti

FAD

FFO
frog

FS
HD
LNS
MSAL
mystery fibers 
NIP
ONS

OOAK
OOP
organic fibers
ORT 
ort jar

PFO
SABLE
SAL
SBNF

SINS

TOAD

UFO

WIP
WOA

WORLD CROSS STITCH DAY

Cross Stitch Terms & Acronyms