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Secoya,
Glad to hear you've persevered and succeeded where I failed. Kiss I absolutely wouldn't worry about the back. It gave me no pleasure at all to worry about what to do with my ends, how to start something perfectly and how well the back looked overall.
This reminds me of a woman I met many years ago at a cross stitch store. We were discussing using a laying tool to make stitches. If you've never heard of that...DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT! LOL. A laying tool is completely unnecessary. It is there for perfectionists who feel they have to have each stitch laying perfectly untwisted; if you're using two strands, for instance, a laying tool will place them side by side. (And though the type that goes on your finger is a wicked cool looking tool, with my luck I'd poke my eye out, so no, no, I will not even TOUCH one.) Meaning you take extra time to form EVERY bloody stitch so every strand is side by side. Um, no. No, no, a million times no.
And if you're familiar with the trick to start a double strand with no ends, the woman who used a laying tool for all of her cross stitch wouldn't entertain the thought of using this shortcut...and why?
Because the fibers would be "facing" in opposite directions on each perfectly laid out side by side cross stitch.
Not only did she do the top stitches that way...she did the same for the bottom stitches. Of course the bottom stitches would stick out like a sore thumb if only the top stitches were made with a laying tool.
Even I do not need to be that persnickety.
I'm still cringing. Wink


Pinkyrose,
Thank you! Kiss


hi Melanie here i have never done a Graphghan before and i actually have two in mind and well i am having a bit of trouble figuring out size dimensions etc and exactly how many stitches go into it i know which pictures i want to use just not sure how many stitches are going to go into each block etc i am so confused right now this is going to be the very first pattern ive done myself too... HELPPPPPPP i am so lost right now

Neave,

I can't either.  Cry  Just too much violence.  Cry  We humans can be pretty crappy to each other (and to our ecosystem).  Cry

Kitti,

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If you're making a pattern 80 stitches across, that is your stitch count and it will be the same for all rows; otherwise, your patterns would have shorter and longer rows here and there and would not be even, which would defeat the purpose of making the pattern in the first place.
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