I didn't mean not to use those 10x10's as a map. I meant not to follow those squares, literally. If the colors follow into the next square, go with the color into the next square....follow the same action with the page edges....I am not expressing this very clearly and I'm sorry. You don't want little "tiles" forming on your surface....which someone was saying was pointed out to them by their framer....a stitcher had stitched square by square, page by page. It was noticeable that she didn't work color by color, but in "tiles". Tiles is my own term, they were talking about squares. Think scrabble squares....laid out next to each other on a table, touching, in a grid. Think of the edges, borders, ridges, carcasses....can anybody explain this better?

I think I know what you mean. On one of my projects, I stitched a complete page before going to the next. As I completed the next page, I noticed that where one ended and the other started there was a ridge running from top to bottom! Luckily, the framing stretched it enough that it didn't show but I was really worried for awhile. Now I try to be sure that the stitches go across the "border" to join the pages without a ridge.

If that isn't what you meant, just disregard.

In one of the former "chats" I called it "ridge lines." It was what the owner of the cross stitch shop showed me of a stitcher who had completed a rather large project and had brought it in for framing. The cross stitch shop owner showed it to me and stated, "Do you see the 10 x 10 squares? To avoid that
do NOT cross stitch every 10 x 10 square. Continue the floss color over into the square and/or even into the squares beyond that so you don't get this "ridge line". This is the same problem a stitcher gets if you end each cross stitch page exactly to the edge which you would end up having larger blocks of stitching with "ridge lines."

Ok, I get it now, lol! And I was following the colors into the next "tile" naturally.

Thanks so much for the tips!!

My fractal ships out on Monday! Hopefully I'll have it in my hot little hands by Wednesday!!

lpnbarnes,
That is why I was wondering if you were going to do your "fractual" chart where you follow the color of ONE of your floss colors even if it means you have to stitch vertically?
When I was looking at the "fractual" picture on the messageboard, it appeared that if you stitched going across in some areas, the floss color might be only 5-6 stitches before you have to change floss colors again to keep going ACROSS the pattern, even if you start in the middle.
I'm glad you are going to get the chart soon so you can see the pattern.

As to the 10 x 10 grid discussion, MANY of the instructions that comes with counted cross stitch patterns, instruct stitchers to stitch in 10 x 10 "blocks THEN go onto the next 10 x 10 block. But doing
THAT creates the "ridge lines" that surround EVERY 10 x 10 section which can be seen by the person looking at the completed pattern; the same hold true if you complete EACH PAGE of a pattern without overlapping your stitches onto the next page.