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What do you mean by gridding the pattern?
Sorry, I never really actually learnt how to do cross-stitching properly lol and so I have no idea about ways of doing it. I only found out the other day that there is a centre point on the pattern!! All this time I thought you just started in a corner ...

Thanks for that. I thought that might be the case.
I was trying so hard to make this one perfect..i hope I can cover it up because it will be really beautiful and the cottons arn't from my country so I'm afraid if I unpick (and i may ruin some of the cotton like I have in the past) I wont be able to ...

Hello, I am new here. Relatively new to cross stitch. I have done quite a number of small ones and now onto my first mid-size larger kind of one.
I have somehow managed to mis-count somewhere and have kind of gone too far to really want to un-stitch it all!!
Does anyone have any tips or help of ...