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Thank you for your responses. I actually just purchased the cloth at Christmas and started the project at the end of January this year. I've been cross stitching for 40 years and this has never happened to me either!

I hope that someone might be able to help me. I am currently working on a counted cross stitch project of the Cappella Sistina on Aida cloth. The project is 350,000 stitches and I'm just over halfway done. My mother was looking at it and decided to stretch it to see what it'll look like stretched ...