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Effing cross stitch sampler - help needed pls!

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mum2Bomg · 21/11/2016 18:05

So I'm 39 weeks pregnant and BORED! I've washed the baby's things, cooked, organised the million packets of wet wipes we have, put up a shelf and been for lunches etc... I've found 'crafty' things help me to avoid watching shite telly all day and to think about every twinge.

Popped merrily off to Hobby Craft and bought a cross stitch sampler but I've got it all out of the box and don't know where to start. I (naively) thought the pattern would be drawn on to the cloth but it isn't. Do I have to count each loop to check I'm starting in the right place?! Almost wishing I hadn't bothered.

I know it's not an AIBU but this board is funny, gets traffic and I like the weirder comments...

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AHobbyaweek · 22/11/2016 09:19

I echo the highlighter tip!! Colour the chart as you go but not in too dark a color that you can't see any back stitch lines! I have a Japanese garden to finish that matches a geisha and samari I have finished. And I am also 11 days into an advent calendar, doing a "window" a day so only 11 days out!!

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