Stitching a whole row at a time

You might take a look at the Views of Rome guy. He works 1 row at a time & 'parks' his thread. He explains the method on his tip sheet. I'm not sure how this varies from Gary's method.

Oh my goodness! that is quite a project. Beautiful work! Thanks for the link, and yes I found the tips page. More information to consider.

You're welcome. I might try his technique on my next project. Dora

Thank you from a lurker for posting both of these links!

I've had a new project all prepped and ready to go for a few weeks now but I've been afraid to start it because it has a lot of colour changes, confetti stitches, and blended threads. I did one row last night using a combinations of Gary's and Gary's methods (perhaps it's something about the name Gary that makes people become such detailed stitchers?) and it looks like this piece will now be a lot easier to work on than I was expecting it to be. It's fairly small, but it's the first chart I've ever created on my own from a photograph and I'm really curious to see how it'll turn out, especially now that I've learned this method. Thanks again!

It's interesting to note that Roman Gary does not use gridding or any other form of referencing, because working only one row at a time, he feels everything is quite under control. I hope it works for you as well. Dora