It's a WIP! (And More Useful Terms)

For those of you new to the term, a WIP is a work in progress.  It's a term often used by not only crocheters but also cross stitchers and beyond. I'll probably use this one quite a lot, which lead me to the thought that not everyone knows the terms, so here you go, this is a bit of the terminology you'll be likely to find here.

Frogging.  That would be dang it, I screwed it up!  So, you rip it out.  You rip it, and rip it, and rip it.  Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit...  Frogging.  If you're frogging it, you're tearing out rows or stitches of something you messed up.

ORTs.  Nope, it's not the space debris discovered by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, that one's an Oort Cloud.  ORTs are old ratty threads, otherwise known as the tiny bits of leftover thread, floss, or yarn you end up with at the end of a color or ball of yarn.  Some people save them, I usually chuck them.  I've heard they make great ornaments, so I'm going to start saving mine soon.

Gridding it.  Some stitchers, especially on large pieces, either draw on or run a single strand of floss in a 10 X 10 grid on their projects to keep from loosing their place.

Parking it.  I believe that's the term.  Doing every bit of stitches in a 10 X 10 block regardless of color all at once before moving on to the next block.  This usually leaves multiple colors of floss hanging off the project "parked".

For crochet:

C2C.  Corner to corner.  Pieces worked on a diagonal instead of straight across.

HOTH, FOTH.  Hot or fresh off the hook.

UFO.  Unfinished object.

NST.  Not yet started.

That's all I can think of at the moment.  I'll add later posts as I think of or hear other terms.  When I get to posting patterns I will list the terms used for each specific pattern at the start of it.