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Bob (VIA's editor, not your uncle) suggested I compile somewhat of a dictionary of crafts lingo today. Since this is fully in line with converting all y'all I'm not crafty people into makers of stuff, I'm happy to oblige. |
Adorbz!: Used the same way it is on Cute Overload, but generally applied to heart-achingly cute toys.
Carve: To sculpt by subtraction.
Crop: A get-together of scrapbookers.
Fat quarter: Don't ever call a person this. A fat quarter is a square piece of fabric, 50cm to a side. Often cut from the last bit of fabric remaining on the roll, they're super handy for small sewing projects or for quilting.
Feed dogs: These are the handy little grippers that help to pull fabric evenly through a sewing machine.
FO: In crafts, this is so not an insult. It's a finished object, the most exciting thing of all. A project that's completed.
Frog: Used by knitters and crocheters when they rip out mistakes (or whole projects). Get it? Rip it, rip it.
Joinery: The joining-together of pieces of wood for making furniture, etc.
Kiln: A high-temperature oven used to harden and glaze pottery.
Laminate: To glue wooden boards together to make a block.
On the needles: Man, a lot of crafts lingo could double as addictions lingo, eh? Anyway, this one's a knitting term – pretty self-explanatory once you know it's for knitting, right?
Off the hook: A completed crochet project. Crochet's done with a crochet hook, see.
SABLE: Acronym for stash acquisition beyond life expectancy. (See Stash.)
Sciving: To thin down leather in certain places.
Scrubby: "Husband of a scrapbooker, tolerates endless photos and hauls in boxes & totes of supplies to crops for wife." (What's the wife of a scrapbooker called?)
Selvage: The self-finished edges of fabric that keep it from fraying or unraveling. In knitting, selvage is sometimes used to denote one or both edges of knitted fabric.
SEX: Acronym for stash enhancement eXpedition. (See Stash.)
Stash: There could probably be a painful reality television show about craft-supply hoarders. A crafter's stash is all the supplies he's collected that he may or may not live long enough to use up.
Totes: Like, totally.
WIP: A work-in-progress. On its way to becoming an FO!
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Big thanks to these crafty kids for their help compiling this list: Jaime Guthals, Kimberly, Jackie Watson, Hannah Nielsen, Kirsty Hall, Adam King, Deborah Evans, Lincoln Heller.
