Just a thought to "chew" on. I did a project with over-dyed floss. The project had a house that called for the same color of overdyed floss. I DID stitch the complete cross stitch with each stitch but I noticed after about 5 rows that the floss was coming up with the same exact section of the same color on each row of the thread. So I ended up with a "Box" of the same color on the house. I apologize if I can't remember the name of stitcher that helped me out, To correct this, she told me NOT to
do straight rows like this xxxxxxxx for the house, but to "mix up" some of my stitches like this:
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xxx xxxx x by stitching a few stitches above, below, diagonally and it worked! The subtle
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variations of the floss was scattered throughout the walls of the cross stitched house. I STILL DID EACH X COMPLETELY before I moved onto the next stitch even using this technique.