Cross Stitch Terms & Acronyms
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
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
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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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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.