With knitting, if I ended up with a wrong stitch count, most of the time I could either add a stitch or knit two together and in the end, you couldn’t see that a mistake had been fixed. With quilting, I could usually take out a couple of seams and make a bit smaller or larger seam allowance and things would come out ok but with cross stitching, there are many times when I’m holding my breath as I get to a point where stitches HAVE to match up.
For the blue outline of the house, I started at the bottom left and went right. You may can see that when I’m counting stitches, I will make half stitches til I get to the grid lines, then do a full “x” at the gridline so that means that except for the beginning and end, the full “x” stitches are 10 stitches part.
So, for this one I started at the bottom and went up the right side. Then I worked on the house that’s left of the door but I needed the left outline stitching so I’d know where to stop stitching on the rows of the house so I went from the bottom up and once I got to the end of the left side, I started across to meet where I had left off. I only did half stitches across because that would be easier to rip back if it didn’t match, plus, I need to end at the end of the row in order to go on to the next row. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, I’m very happy that it matched up and I can continue to stitch without having to rip back.