What is your stitching order?

[Icelandic Hitman]

Just curios to how people stitch.

Do you ?
a.) do the full cross then go to the next stitch
b.) do a row of half stitch and then cross back
c.) do half stitches for all of the one colour in a block and then cross back
d.) do all half stitches then cross all back.
e.) other.

I usually do c, at the moment I'm doing d.

[dangergerbil]

Depends on the shape of the block but mostly b with a bit of a (1/2 row and back again with odd stitches off to the side as complete crosses)

[starrley]

I do the full cross (always in the same order) unless I want to go one direction and then come back, then I'll do half stitches and cross them when I come back to where I was. (Does that make sense?)

[blackmageheart]

I do a) - the full cross, generally in rows of one colour. If it's huge areas of a colour (like a background) I do the crosses in blocks of 10x10, again in rows. I also usually (depending on the pattern) stitch one row of crosses one way, the next row the opposite way and so on.
I have done c) in the past but never really settled into doing it like that.

EDIT: Oh and when I said I stitch the rows one way, the next the other, I meant like one row going left, the next going right etc. Just incase it sounded like I do my crosses differently! >_>

[techno-ninja]

I mix it up, depending on how much of an individual colour I have.
for a lot of one colour, i tend to do half stitch then work my way back, but for small areas i use full stitch from right to left.

[katdun]

I usually do b.) do a row of half stitch and then cross back. I do one color at a time (or at least a full six strands of a major color, anyway), usually an outline color first then it's easy to go back and fill in the rest.

[spinuntilyoufall]

I usually do b.) do a row of half stitch and then cross back. I do one color at a time (or at least a full six strands of a major color, anyway), usually an outline color first then it's easy to go back and fill in the rest.

Same for me - if there's no outline exactly, then I'll start with the most used color and work my way to the least used. I also work on the whole project at once, instead of going page by page.

[StitchPlease]

I use different methods depending on what I'm stitching on. If I'm using fabric I'll stitch half crosses then go back over to make them full stitches. If I'm using plastic, I'll normally do full stitches all the way through. I was taught to start in the middle with your darkest color and do one color at a time. It's weird to see people who stitch one page at a time, or who start in corners. It's not bad, just different. Doesn't it take more floss that way?

[Yurtle]

I always do b, half stitches across the row and then back to complete the x.

I usually start in the middle, with whatever colour has the most stitches in the area and work my way out.

[Eliste]

C. Almost always. As long as it's contiguous or close enough to not tie off to jump to the next bit.
It's just so handy to do it that way. You know what you're doing, it's easy to figure out exactly where you are and you don't accidentally cross over with the wrong color. Plus it makes it look like you're doing a lot morer faster.

My exceptions are where there'll be like one or two stitches of a co our in several places, then I'll do the full cross.

At least this is what I think I've done. Been working tent stitch an awful lot lately instead.