This is going to sound soooo stupid but back when I started stitching, it took me a while to figure out I could start my stitch in a different place than the usual and still maintain the same pattern of stitching. 

I’ll explain. I stitch first ↗️ then ↖️. So whenever I’m following a path that makes me go up, the stitch below finishes on the same place the stitch right above it would start. Right? So in the beginning I would really drive myself crazy and jump around trying to avoid that because it was IMPOSSIBLE… when I just had to start the stitch above with ↙️ instead of ↗️. 

I hope this makes sense 😂