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Glossary of Stitchy Terms and Slang: 

• Rotation – While some stitchers prefer to work on one project until it’s complete, others have a “rotation” of projects that they work on.  This can be a set rotation (i.e. this week one, next week another) or more free (i.e. pick up the project that speaks to you that day)
• SAL – stitch-a-long – A group posting regular updates of their progress on a project, usually the same project or variations on a theme.  Sometimes this is hosted by a pattern designer who releases the patterns in sections, as you go.
• UFO – unfinished object – an incomplete project
• WIP – work in progress – an incomplete project

Stitching Supply:

• 123stitch.com
• Etsy shop: Designs by Lisa (Really cute needle minders!)
• nordicneedle.com
• stoneycreek.com

Stitching Blogs I Love:

Pattern Shops: 

• 123stitch.com (many types!)
• Etsy shop: Kimberly Ouimet (freestyle patterns)*
• Etsy shop: Wellington House Designs (freestyle patterns)*
• Etsy shop: Clementine Patterns (freestyle patterns and kits)
• joyfulexpressions.us (Bible verse cross stitch patterns)
• nordicneedle.com (many types!)
• stoneycreek.com (cross stitch patterns, including a quarterly magazine)

*I haven’t bought anything from this shop but it’s on my wish list!

Pattern and Technique Books:

• All Our Yesterdays Cross Stitch Collection by Faye Whittaker
• Cross-Stitch Treasures for Children by Joan Elliott
• The Stitch Bible by Kate Haxell