Yarndevous: a gathering of yarn-addicted crafters, all armed with sticks, hooks, and infinite stories of the travails 
and/or victories of their knitventures.
Knitventure: taking on a risky project that, based on your current knitting aptitude, will either make you a hero or a martyr (see “kniticide”). An example of this would be a knitling, upon having completed her first-ever scarf is now already contemplating a sweater w/ cables and bobbles.
Knitling: a just-born knitter, working on or just having finished her first scarf. Knitlings are like timid woodland creatures and can be easily terrified by lingo such as ‘purl’ and ‘circulars’, and thus conversation should be kept to a minimum.
Kniticide: attempting maddening, over-ambitious patterns or stitches that are light-years ahead of your current skill set, effectively killing your desire to ever knit again. (Not to be confused with a kniterval).
Kniterval: a self-inflicted hiatus from knitting caused by a project so formidable that it drained you, thereby exhausting your desire for yarn and sticks temporarily. (Man-sweaters do this to me, but cleansing my palette w/ a quick crochet project reminds me why I love the sticks so very much…)
Knitvention: when you’ve deluded yourself into thinking you’ve invented a seemingly new, previously undiscovered stitch or method of knitting that has somehow eluded centuries of previous knitters across all continents and ancient cultures. (Like the day I thought I invented the 3-stitch baby cable, only to realize I was regular-cabling w/o a cable needle and shredding my yarn in the process.)
Yarnicle: an inexplicable knot in the middle of an otherwise pristine skein of yarn, that is now in the middle of your project and causing a potential knitastrophe.
Knitastrophe: an impasse in your project in which you must choose one of three paths: decide to press on, mistakes and all, hoping they will not be visible in the completed work (usually what I opt for); rip back and begin again (horrors!); abandon the project entirely, on the sticks and all, while you mentally calculate the catastrophic waste of time and resources invested in the newest orphan now in your purgatory.
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I think I know a knitling or two. And I believe I am at a kniterval at the moment
Although usually a knitwit, I am now encouraged to start my latest project. I am 2 inches into it, my goal is 2 inches a day.