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After a little over a year of stitching now I still feel like a bit of a noob, but I'm pretty comfortable with the basics. These parts of patterns still give me some problems though!

My strategy is usually to just do all of one color then move on to the next filling in the gaps as I go, but when it gets down to filling individual stitches surrounded by a bunch of finished stitches it gets quite cramped and sometimes those final stitches end up looking pretty rough.

Is there some really obvious method of doing this that I'm missing? Does anyone else use a different approach?

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[-] llamapants@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I do it by grid squares, I start a square one colour at a time and when it's complete I mark that square so I know it's done, that way I know where I've left off.

this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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