Since there aren’t any ‘cross Stitch police” around here, I’ll
Confess that if I have some stitches with the same color floss more than 4 and less than 10 stitches away, I’ll
‘Travel’ my needle under the stitches to get to that area, whether I do it straight, diagonally. Only thing I avoid is doing it under lighter colored stitches with a darker floss on my needle.