As with so many things in crafting and in life, there’s no right way to cross stitch. You can work all of one color in a project, skipping around the fabric as you do, or you can work stitch by stitch across the fabric, changing colors as you go. Or something in between!
But if you’re new to cross stitch and can’t figure out how to go about stitching a project, this post from Bobo Stitch might help. It talks about where to start and how to get from there to the next place you should stitch and so on around the project.
I’m not the best at doing things in a way that makes sense, but I will say that for me, the most important thing is to find the center of the fabric and the center of the pattern and start there.
This way you know your pattern is oriented properly on the fabric, meaning hopefully you won’t run out of fabric and your project will be centered for easier finishing.
From there I usually will try to work all the nearby stitches in the same color I started with, but admittedly it gets pretty chaotic pretty fast.
This post shows you exactly on the chart where you are and what you might want to stitch next to keep in the same color on the project and looks at how to skip stitches as you move from one place to another filling in with one color. Whether you start with the background color or another color is somewhat up to you or what color happens to be in the middle, but this is a good overview of how and where to get started stitching on a project.
Read all about it over at Bobo Stitch.
I’d love to know how you move around on a cross stitch project. Do you try to work all of one color at a time or work from the center out, or something else?
[Photo: Bobo Stitch]
