Guide
How to track your cross-stitch progress
Tracking your stitching keeps you from counting the same area twice, shows how far you've come, and makes big projects feel finishable.
Open the tracker About the tracker
Why track at all?
On a big design it's easy to lose your place, miss a stitch, or stitch a colour twice. Tracking also turns a long project into small wins: a block finished, a colour done, another evening's stitching logged.
On paper
Print a working copy of the chart and colour over each area as you finish it with a highlighter or pencil. It's simple and works anywhere, but large charts mean a lot of paper, and you have to remember to mark as you go.
In an app
A tracking app marks stitches on a digital chart. It can't run out of highlighter, it remembers where you stopped, and it can do things paper can't: fade every colour but one, count what's left, and estimate when you'll finish.
Tracking in Tatreez
Open any design in stitch-along mode:
- Mark stitches by tapping or dragging across them. Finished stitches stay marked.
- Focus a colour to fade the rest of the chart, or use stitch parking to keep several colours going.
- Tick off threads in the floss checklist as you finish with them.
- Use Where was I? to jump back to your last stitches.
- Add a session note for tension, thread swaps or anything you want to remember.
Tatreez times each session, keeps a streak of stitching days, and shows progress by colour and progress over time. After a few sessions it works out an estimated finish date.
Tracking a pattern from another designer
If the pattern comes as an .oxs file, import it from your designs page and track it like your own. See the OXS guide for what the format holds.
Share the milestones
Post a progress update in the community when you finish a section. Other stitchers love seeing work grow, and it's a good push to keep going.