How not to lose your cross stitch marks
Losing your marks on a big chart hurts: the stitching is there, but you don't know where you stopped. Here's how to prevent it.
On paper
- Mark a copy, not your only print of the chart.
- Photograph your marked pages once a week. If a page gets lost or wet, the marks survive in the photo.
- Keep the chart in a plastic sleeve, away from your coffee.
In an app
- Check when the app saves your marks: straight away, or only when you close it. If only on close, a flat battery can take the last evening's marks with it.
- Before updating the app, check whether it has a backup or an export of marks — and make one.
- Keep the chart file separately, not only inside the app, so you can open it again.
If your marks do disappear
- Don't start marking again straight away.
- Check your backup, export or photos of your marks.
- If there's no copy, rebuild it from the stitching: lay it next to the chart and mark what's stitched, area by area, page by page. It's slow, but reliable.
About the author
This article was written by the Crossette team. We're building Crossette, a cross stitch tracker for iPhone and iPad: every mark is saved the moment you make it, so a flat battery or a closed app won't take your marks with it, and backups are saved automatically to a folder you choose in Files, with restore from a backup. It's in development; to join the beta, email [email protected].