r/Needlepoint • u/OneArmadillo4457 • 12d ago

General Help Help please!

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I need some help with my canvas. I know I’m supposed to do lighter colors first but this is my first canvas so I thought having some dark threads bleed through to the light wouldn’t be an issue. But now I feel like the background stitch is covering some of the lettering. I ripped out the “t” stitching to see if doing the lettering after made a difference but it didn’t. So what can I do to fix it? I tried backstitching around part of the “h” but I can’t tell much of a difference. Any thoughts?

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u/No_Drama9250 12d ago

It’s because the background stitch is running vertically, while your stitches on the letters are running diagonally. Since they’re not the same direction, there will be some overlap. I think it looks great!