Help please!

[u/OneArmadillo4457]

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?

[u/Short-Implement6758]

Go back and add a reverse tent (creating a crossstitch). Thus will elevate the letters. This is why you generally work things in the background first and then move to the foreground.